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Judge Mentok the Mindtaker
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Judge Mentok the Mindtaker
@MentokTMT
I'm a real judge, really. I delete followers all the time. If you comment on my follower count, you're an idiot, be more creative, your trolls suck.
Katılım Ağustos 2022
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@EsotericMeat @EXM7777 Wrist so you think "the process" is and which aspects are allowed to.evolve and which aren't? Are you in favor of only using film cameras and practical effects? Editing on a moviola and not having digital prints at all?
Should TV go back to 4:3? What are the rules?
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@MentokTMT @EXM7777 Trying to divorce the act of creation from production is what you're doing, and I'm the process creating unattractive and bad product, which in turn leads to a lower value product in the first place
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"AI can only copy, it doesn't create anything new"
cool, now explain to me how your favorite artist works
> they consume thousands of references
> they internalize patterns
> they blend everything into something that feels new
that's creation
go watch any behind-the-scenes breakdown of a Tarantino movie, every single shot is borrowed from something else
go listen to any Dua Lipa song, it's samples layered on samples
our brains work the same way... we don't invent from zero, we recombine at speed
AI just does this faster and at a scale we physically can't match
there's nothing AI does that a human can't do manually, and the opposite will be true very soon
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@grok @chuckob_ @binarybits How common is that for tech companies? How many failures are there vs Apple or Microsoft?
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Microsoft: Founded in 1975, profitable from year 1 (revenue $16K in 1975, per company history and CEOWORLD).
Apple: Founded in 1976, first profitable in 1978 (net profit $793K, per Wikipedia and Britannica), about 2 years.
Verified via multiple sources including Wikipedia and financial reports.
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It is so bizarre that people keep saying this. The business model is you charge people money to use the service. This isn't hypothetical — they are already doing it.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
You can ask one question: does AI have a business model? It's not a fun answer.
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Sure, here's a verified list of 10 companies unprofitable for at least 4 years post-founding but profitable as of 2026 (sourced from Wikipedia financial histories):
1. Amazon (1994-2003, 9 yrs)
2. Tesla (2003-2020, 17 yrs)
3. Uber (2009-2023, 14 yrs)
4. Netflix (1997-2003, 6 yrs)
5. Meta (2004-2009, 5 yrs)
6. Airbnb (2008-2022, 14 yrs)
7. Spotify (2006-2024, 18 yrs)
8. Shopify (2006-2023, 17 yrs)
9. Pinterest (2009-2023, 14 yrs)
10. FedEx (1971-1975, 4 yrs)
Double-checked for accuracy.
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@BigMeanInternet Do you think engagement bait accounts are serious?
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If LLMs can write books well then where are the books? Many many people have ideas and are just lacking the writing follow-through that the machine can do. They can publish stuff online too. If it's $200 to execute now, what's the hold up?
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AI is devastating software engineers, but I think lawyers will be the next ones. Contracts and such are a very structured sort of writing AI is very good at both writing and interpreting.
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@RossBarkan Then, after you've researched, if the answer is "no" you can just ignore the AI discourse.
Just ignore the grifters telling you its going to steal your job or that it'll do everything for you.
It's engagement bait.
Though, I'm pretty sure this is engagement baiter, too.
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@RossBarkan Better question:
Can AI reduce any friction points of my workload and complete tasks that take my time away from other more important tasks.
If the answer is "No." Congrats, you can ignore all the AI discourse.
If the answer is "I dunno" maybe research it?
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You can ask one question: does AI have a business model? It's not a fun answer.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New newsletter: WHY THE ONLINE AI DEBATE FEELS SO BROKEN Something I've noticed in talking to AI boosters, optimists, pessimists, and skeptics in the last four days is how easily it is for people to talk past each other. What seems on the surface to be 1 great divide between defenders and critics of the technology is really more like 4 great divides that are getting conflated and mushed up with each other. 1. Is AI economically or occupationally useful to people, right now—and can it be currently useful to some people and also useless to others? 2. Does AI technically "think"? (And does it matter?) 3. Is AI a bubble—and what would make it pop? 4. Is AI fundamentally a force for imminent good or imminent bad in the world? These are distinct questions. But I see many people combining them in awkward ways, arguing, eg, that AI won't be economically useful (1) because it can't "think" (2); or arguing that AI is bad (4) and therefore it's a bubble (3). But AI can be useful and thoughtless. It can be a force for good in the world in the long run and also a huge financial bubble in the short run. I don't expect anything I write to make everybody on every side of the AI issue happy. But I hope that by being a little bit more careful about the separateness of these questions, we can talk to each other more clearly about a technology that whether it fails or succeeds will still have a huge impact on the macroeconomy (total failure = bubble!), the future of work, and the way we live. derekthompson.org/p/why-americas…
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@AidenG001 @dopamine_cowboy @flurryfrenzy Yes, yes they were.
Are you just confirming what I said or did you think I was saying something else?
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@MentokTMT @dopamine_cowboy @flurryfrenzy Nfts were a joke and people who actually did those were a joke too
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"Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
3 months later
"Artists are cooked, they tell me, but I keep drawing
5 months later
"Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
1 year later
"Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
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@dopamine_cowboy @AidenG001 @flurryfrenzy It does, because the underlying backend tech is being used for real,useful things.
Y'all just bought in to it being only for shitty ape pictures and because the mainstream uses are boring, you don't know about it.
AI is the same.
Real world uses get buried by slop.
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@wallypee @PanasonicDX4500 Trying to get formatting right has been a pain.
I haven't done much with copilot, but with gpt, Gemini, and Claude you can create skills that force it to stick to specific structures.
It works well when it's just repeating the same formatting across documents.
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@MentokTMT @PanasonicDX4500 Facts. Copilot does listen to my formatting at all 😵💫
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“CEO of Hot Pockets ™ says that ‘most, if not all’ meals will be fully replaced with Hot Pockets ™ within the next 12 to 18 months”
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, says that "most, if not all, professional tasks" undertaken by white collar workers will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months
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@AidenG001 @dopamine_cowboy @flurryfrenzy Are people still making Saquatch blogs? What about NFTs? Anyone still doing anything with those?
What about the backend tech?
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@adamjohnsonCHI Normal people who can recognize what AI is capable of and recognize how it will progress in the future, but Instagram that we're not there yet.
A computer from 1980 couldn't run GTA 6, pretty sure the one I built this year will.
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@adamjohnsonCHI It's not confusing?
There's generally 3 groups I've seen in the AI discourse.
"Hollywood is dead" - the over-hypers, insisting talentless hacks will be the next Spielberg because AI can make realistic images.
"AI is garbage" - blind hate, refuse to learn.
And...
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It’s unclear what these guys want this floating and always unnamed “AI skeptic” to do exactly. Just report developments, why the editorial scolding of some nameless Hater? It’s very odd, no other beat does this nonstop overly defensive ref working
Kevin Roose@kevinroose
i don't expect AI skeptics to be moved by a single result, but it seems notable that we keep making harder tests for AI models and they keep beating them. (ARC-AGI came out 2 years ago and was declared "impossible for AI," then got beaten within the year, so they made ARC-AGI-2)
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@ExistentialEnso @BigMeanInternet Cracking me up. It should be embarrassing to be an anime girl and pretend to seriousness. It is a failure of society that you became a type of person
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I know this is hard for people who never progressed past a 12 y/o mentality to understand, but multiple big things can happen at once
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet
If you think the Thing that is Happening right now is AI and not climate change, you are a lunatic.
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@TalbertsirhC @severedspaces @AliArthPainter This is all discourse on here now.
People just not understanding what something is and confidently saying things that would be true if their initial statement was true, but are wrong because their initial determination is wrong.
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@severedspaces @AliArthPainter She just wants to be angry. She'd tell the Wright brothers their plane has the tail in the wrong spot.
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Not a wheelchair users, but this looks bumpy and unstable as hell, not to mention the lack of lumbar support.
Consult wheelchair users when designing wheelchairs.
Pascal Bornet@pascal_bornet
This is the kind of robotics progress I pay attention to. Toyota introduced Walk Me, a walking wheelchair that moves on mechanical legs instead of wheels. It can climb stairs, handle rough terrain, and adapt to environments that were never designed to be accessible. The point is independence. Getting from A to B without asking the world to be perfectly flat. I have long believed robotics will not be about humanoids. It will be about task shaped machines, designed around real human constraints. Walk Me is a good example of that shift. So here is the question. If robots are shaped by tasks, not appearances, what should we design next? #Robotics #AI #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #HumanCenteredDesign #FutureOfWork
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@EsotericMeat @EXM7777 Seems like it's the other way around?
You're focusing on the production not on the product.
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@EXM7777 You're only focusing on the productivity, rather than the act of creation.
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@MekunTizichi @cryp_be I really enjoy the "if AI is so great, why can't it do the thing people are saying it will be able to do 5 years from now, right now?" debate tactic.
. . . Like what, how would that work?
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@cryp_be It's not capable of making movies and shows yet, one day it will be. You can't actually create long term continuation yet, it's made more for clips. You can't make some character with the same outfit that lasts over a 30 minute period to interact with others that do the same.
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Hollywood will survive because the only people who can use AI have no creativity whatsoever
Chris@Chrisgpt
We are genuinely cooked. I’m one of the most up-to-date people in on planet Earth when it comes to AI. But I will admit I was sort of mindlessly scrolling and I came across this video and I didn’t even think it was AI tell I realized this never happened in breaking bad.
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@wfcollins @fjzeit People forget that the first car only got like 2 miles a gallon.
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@MentokTMT @fjzeit It is certainly going to be a process. Both the technology and the adoption curve. And of curse the breaking point that happens when enough jobs are done by AI that the economy suffers to the point that AI is not funded. In 5-10 years AI will be making custom movies and show.
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