Ocean Quigley

@Noahpinion They're just not evenly distributed yet (thankfully)

The killer robots are here

@ramez Depends on the 2nd order effects? If they outcompete and destroy American car manufacturing we'd lose both warmtime manufacturing capacity and the process knowledge that goes with it. If it forces US companies to adapt then it would be good for us, like Toyota back in the 80's.

Why not let the Chinese government subsidize cars for Americans? That, by the way, cut pollution and are more fun to drive? Seems like a good deal to me!

@profontheright You've got to give the UK credit for voting their way out back in the 70's

@SlipperyGem Awesome!

A weird little node for Wan 2.2, the First-Middle-Last Frame I2V node. If this is easy to use, I'll give it a go, better than a full-fledge daisy chain or real multi-frame workflow, no? github.com/wallen0322/Com…

@CJHandmer @Summersaltcloud @paulg Happiness surveys all suffer from the "could you imagine a happier life" problem. Americans may imagine more upside than Finns, so rate themselves lower relative to that potential. Finns figure that they're already about as happy as they're going to get.

@Summersaltcloud @paulg Yes, but happy?

Happiness = the number of digits of wealth.

@capncleaver Hmm. Yikes?

Maybe they could have cut in some fanfares, some sora visuals, an A lister cameo monumental science moment commentary, or a heartfelt recommendation to go out this weekend, celebrate Winter Solstice like an Upper Paleolithic only would... Somebody say something profound!

The knee of the singularity curve is inaugurated with an awkward video that just... stops... after casually revealing that O3 blows through the human average on the 'ARC-AGI' test and... uh... guess we need a new test guys... I get it, I wouldn't know what to say, either.

@msfeldstein @NickADobos Read it too, it's fantastic.

@NickADobos loved this one, picked up a hard copy for the shelf for sure, can't wait to hand it to someone

Just finished reading this batshit crazy book. 10/10. Unlike anything I have ever read. 100% recommended.

@bri_guy_ai These are great!

Happy Monday, monster lovers. --sref 1692450842 Today’s animated style is mostly black and white with the occasional brilliant pop of and red-orange that makes you want to reroll over and over again. Just do me a favor and throw it into relax mode before you get too excited.

@ahmadova_marina @zora So good!

Happy Halloween🦇🕷️🧛🏻‍♀️〰️🕸️ Mint🔻

@solyaev Just wanted to say that your work is exceptionally good.

Morning flowers

@ErikVoorhees @VitkusJustinas Tiny black hole like that will be putting out some Hawking radiation. Maybe that's what the artist had in mind?

@VitkusJustinas Why is it white

I am fascinated by the theory of tiny primordial black holes hitting solar system planets and moons and going through them as if they are barely there. Here's a painting of such blackhole# piercing through our moon and emerging on the other side, leaving a small, unusual crater.

__Building SimCity__ launches today w @mitpress! ✨Alan Kay: "Highly recommended!"✨ 👉🏻30% off today at 🐧tinyurl.com/24asb3wc (with code PUBDAY30; US address required) 👇🏻Accidental ASMR teaser video👁️

@DesignGuillaume @YesboxStudios No that was @StupidFunWill ! I was just quoting him.

@YesboxStudios Pretty sure @oceanquigley is the one who coined “roads are hard”

I've been keeping a milestone summary of Metropolis 1998's development since I wrote the first line of code in Nov. '21. I summed the time I spent on road network/pathing code, and it comes out to a whopping 8.5 months 👴 Half that time was implementing (3-4 times) the road placement + graphics + node connections / hierarchy + on-road pathing. About a quarter of that time was developing an efficient way to find, store, and access all possible shortest paths between all node pairs. And the last quarter was for off-road and sidewalk pathing. This might explain why there's so few [traditional] city builders on the market. Road networks are hard and time consuming.

@robinhanson Uplift animals to sapience Recover extinct species (mammoth, neanderthal) Create beautiful new species (e.g. glowing trees). Rewild/garden vast areas of earth. Make beautiful cities.

A monumental project (MP): A) takes 10s - 100s yrs to achieve B) makes sense for >= nation-sized unit to try C) might be sacred quest to unify unit, inspire sacrifice D) after-fact can measure if achieved by date E) civ decay/collapse delays or cuts chance achieve Please respond here with concrete MP suggestions. With enough candidates, I’ll do polls re support.

@CharlesCMann It's a paper that seems tailored to our current political sensibilities? At least the popularization of it that I read in Scientific American had that feel.

Strong response to "Myth of Man the Hunter" paper last year, which argued women hunt in ~3/4 of foraging societies (big-game hunting in 1/3); new paper says that work was plagued with bias and errors--that they were unknowingly cooking the books. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@patriciogv @Adobe Congrats Patricio!!

Proud and happy to share that I have joined @adobe’s Prototyping team. A centralized and talented team of senior hybrid individuals working across research, design, and engineering, helping craft the vision for the next generation of creative tools.

@CJHandmer @William_Blake My take is that they work marvelously as film architecture but would be truly awful to live in.

@William_Blake A lot of these are actually awesome.

I agree that post modern architecture affronts the human soul, but TC is idiotically waxing orgasmic about one classical Potemkin subway station. He should have taken the whole tour of Stalinist concrete disasters & should acknowledge the Soviet love of Brutalism.

@GhislainGir Exciting!!

#UE5 #Blender #techart #vfx Working on a Blender addon that should pack all kinds of baking techniques. Pivot Painter, Object Anim, Vertex Anim, Skeletal/Bone Anim, and more. Here's OAT. 95K tris mesh. 876 objects. Single 1024x256 32bits anim texture.

@CJHandmer Maybe "Die in this puddle"?

Humans are fish and I will die on this hill. Also, a basic primer on genealogy.

@JohnConstableRA There's another fantastic painting of the same scene by Tim Lawson:

Early Spring, Union, Maine by Don Demers 2013 Oil - Plein air (Private Collection)