Michael Brave

@RazorwireRPG I've heard the best way to play starfield is to mod the hell out of it into star wars.

No single image of Starfield better illustrates how toothless, gutless, lacking in grit and texture than this one does. I made the mistake of visiting Neon late in my playthrough, excited about the idea of visiting a sleazy Cyberpunk planet. What I found was a clown show. There is something hollow and sad about the entirety of Starfield's worldbuilding and lore, that I can't even bring myself to be mad about - I'm just disappointed. This doesn't feel like a universe comprised of competing factions and people, it feels like a bunch of empty mannequins shooting at each other over nothing. Everything feels so dumbed down and family friendly. All the edges filed off to make everything palatable and bland. It's sad.

@theojaffee Oceania's stance is interesting.

Negative sentiment toward AI is a luxury belief

@jonbrooks fix the money part first, then persuade against the inconvenience. We know how to have a great society, but are unwilling to spread the wealth to do so.

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

@Charlygotyou that's your garden variety executive dysfunction package, it's often packaged with 'can't take out the trash' and 'spend hours talking yourself up to make that phonecall'

Does anyone else have the kind of ADHD where you just kinda refuse to open mail?

@Austen the models are great but their business is a mess, not just their marketing. They change the token usage on a whim, for a year their AIstudio and gemini were separated and the teams didn't coordinate. I prefer the gemini models, but I can't rely on google.

Honestly Google sucks at marketing its AI products. Gemini and family are dramatically underhyped for how good the models are. Partially because they don’t have a charismatic leader, partially because they’re buried in 18 layers of confusingly named Google enterprise bloatware.

@tomfgoodwin there are still memory constraints, skills get skipped if too many etc, specialization makes it easier to perform well and fits with human intuition too. Even if we use the same model the model has to have a prompted point of view that specializes for quality output.

I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know. It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ? Seems daft

@Sparkpoodle1 these are anti-vaxxer types, they want to feel smarter than the system, so they find the things that have low chance of happening and are like 'we didn't need those safety things afterall' which most of the time is true, until the once in a while when it wasn't

I can not understand what the big deal is with pasteurization? It's literally just heating milk for a set time then rapidly cooling it No chemicals, no high tech equipment, it's just heated milk

@Sebbywebz it's very good, but I think the music is like 70% of what makes it good

Chrono Cross (2000) has one of the most magical openings in video game history No matter how many times you watch it, it always feels special

@LisaBritton I used to substitute, and thought about doing it full time, but most male teachers were treated with a bit of suspicion, pay isn't great, and the cost/time of getting a masters was more than I wanted. Especially for such an exhausting job with difficult parents/admin/etc

I believe more male teachers could help fix so many problems… We need more male teachers! How can we do this?

@tbpn @mcuban I don't disagree with @mcuban, but in some ways that feels similar to old plantation style homes that had separate entrances for 'the help'

.@mcuban says humanoid robots won't last more than 5-10 years. Instead, we'll "design the house to fit the robot, and design the robot to fit the house." "You could create a house where the pantry, the refrigerator, and the washing machines were hidden behind the garage, if you even have a garage. That way you could redesign the house so that all the living space was for people."

@billsXchills @Nithya_Shrii that's not just AI, it's AI and Robotics, if we think that way likely nothing is safe, things are only 'safe while the margins look good' for hiring people.

@Nithya_Shrii Did you say farming?

10 jobs that are 100% safe from AI: 1. Dentist 2. Construction worker 3. Plumbing 4. Farming 5. Gardening 6. Carpentry 7. Cooking 8. Gardening 9. Welder 10. Electrician Did I miss any?!

@memeslich time well spent

My Dungeons & Dragons players spent an hour arguing with a sentient door.

@bindureddy I can feel gemini being smarter than 2.5 in a lot of ways, but it's really lazy and does the minimum effort until you push it a few times, and it's tone is much more boring than 2.5. But I think to google the AI race is an obligation more than a priority

Gemini 3.0 didn’t quite work out and most of us are still stuck with 2.5 Sometimes I don’t get it - what’s preventing Google from ditching all the side hustles and training 100 models from 100 teams in parallel Pick the model/team combination that produces a decent model! That way, they will at least stay in the AI race 😅

@InsiderGeo it's only funny in a 'I can't believe that happened' kind of way, done in poor taste otherwise

People often don’t realize that you can’t talk to Asians the same way you talk to Europeans or Westerners. There’s a cultural expectation that historical context, respect, and subtlety are treated differently what might seem casual or humorous in the West is deeply offensive in Japan, In Japan, context, respect, and subtlety guide almost every interaction. Unlike in many Western countries, where directness is valued, Japanese communication often relies on reading between the lines.

@ArtieReviews every decade's cultural shift isn't cut evenly, late 70's had more in common with early 80's than early 70's, late 90's had more in common with early 2000's than early 90's. But honestly 2008-22 just sorta blurred together, most of the tech progress was incremental, music too

Hot take, but 2010-2012 was basically a 2000's hangover. The 2010's culturally and technologically didn't kick off until about 2013. It was commonplace to see people still using flip phones and watching on CRT's in 2012. Landlines just started being phased out and frutiger aero was still everywhere. Not to mention the dark, gritty urban nature of the 2000's was still lingering.

@Jan_Reilink @exQUIZitely I have fond memories and still boot it up just for the music sometimes, but the PC gamer crowd and the arcade gamer crowd didn't have a lot in common culturally at the time, with PC gaming being kinda niche tbh

@exQUIZitely One Must Fall 2097, was one I played alot myabandonware.com/game/one-must-… Come to think about this, I'll add it to my DOSBox (Staging) tomorrow. I still play old games often in DOSBox 😊

Street Fighter (especially Street Fighter II from 1991), Mortal Kombat (starting in 1992), and Tekken (kicking off in 1994) are widely seen as the big three of 90s fighting games. Well, at least that's my memory from that era. They dominated arcades, home consoles, and even pop culture. What other games deserve to be mentioned as being on par with those three?

@kevinsxu didn't most of the team leave too?

Alibaba said nothing about open source as part of its future AI strategy in its earnings call I thought it would at least pay some temporary lip service to open source Qwen, as we know it, is dead

@svpino I think AI models are usually 80% right, which if you don't know much feels good enough, but when you know enough feels deeply wrong. Expertise will always have value.

Claude is the perfect complement for me: Whenever I have a question I can't answer, I ask Claude, and it gives me the perfect answer every time. But as soon as I ask Claude something I do know, the answer is usually horseshit.

@levelsio isn't it Philips that doesn't even make things anymore and just licenses their brand name? that has a limited shelf life as a business too as the brand is slowly eroded over time.

The biggest fumble in business ever might be Philips spinning off ASML, TSMC and NXP Philips co-founded ASML in 1984, then co-founded TSMC in 1987, then they founded NXP They sold each of them for short term profits in the 2000s ASML is now worth $545B TSMC is worth $1.76T NXP is worth $50B Philips today is worth just $27B If they'd never sold, Philips would be the largest company in the EU today, worth $650B Philips CEO Cor Boonstra called it "making money with the success of the past" 🤡