Similar! Although there's no elevator so I can't shortcut it. My personal long-term fitness test is if I'm not tired and I double-step up the stairs holding a bike with my right hand; on a good day I can do it, on a normal day I give up after a flight or two.

I always love to run up the stairs for no reason, and got 3 flights of them, even though it takes probably less than 30 seconds. Maybe need to do daily garbage/recycling rounds. But vigorous activity out of nothing without warm-up might have other nasty side-effects, your joints won't be happy.

Space is cold, duh. Cold+heat = room temperature. Math checks out. Can also use the GPU fans as thrusters. Excuse me, need to go to the patent office.

I don't think you understand how games are made or how corporate decision making and execution works. Hint: it's a top-down system - 90% of the workers have very little say in what they do, they are hired to execute.

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Haha I know I'm not remotely the oldest around here... 4KB is *so* incredibly little, not remotely enough even by Gate's standards! Another fun memory is learning/memorizing powers of two, up to 65536, slowly but surely, throughout the years, by seeing the BIOS RAM counters after every RAM upgrade.

Cool story! I got my first 386SX in 1992, with a whopping 2MB RAM, so 1Gb would have blown my mind... "Imagine how well Prince of Persia will run" with my brain at that time xD

As a gamer and a game developer, let me comment on your points

You're suggesting that artists will now do art evaluation instead of art? Or Non-artists will do that? Or do you think companies will only hire art directors? If they do so, how would an artists live until they become a director? So, it's both boring and unsustainable

It's a game, not a reality simulator. How do you know some information is important for gamey game purposes if you keep reading slop that is slightly different, meandering, and infinite?

Generative AI and "ensure" is not a good combo. Prepare for hallucinations, lies and false confidence.

Overall, yes, AI will make studios more productive, but at what cost? Deskilling people, increasing output therefore increasing competition even further, and everybody more reliant to 3-4 megacorps who are also going to pirate and illegally siphon the game source and content anyway, because they can and nobody can stop them. Don't have consumer mentality, this completely disrupts the game development food chain. Plus AI companies cause your new PC to cost a lot more.

What you describe makes perfect sense if costs represented effort and everybody got paid what they deserve. That's not the case for a lot of things, especially movies, so I don't think your example is great.

The whole point is that if we want accuracy, we use machines. If I wanted fiction and unreliability, I'll ask humans. If I want to calculate an integral, I don't want an RNG infused answer that might or might not be wrong.

The techology is really cool, it's not AGI, but it has it's place and uses, but with a few issues: 1) it's pay-to-win: the ones with the deepest pockets can make the best product 2) privacy issues - all your data gets siphoned and sold to the highest bidder 3) you unskill yourself by using it, as you're delegating cognitive work to something else 4) it's all built on illegally hoovering humanity's data without paying anything back.

So, it's not like we're grumpy because we're old people. There are serious issues.

Exactly, besides the definition slippery slope, there's also the brain chemicals that cause emotions and make people do all sorts of irrational things, and appear as utterly unintelligent. As long as we equate "intelligence" as smarts, AI will *appear* to move faster to AGI because AI can appear to be smart and people frequently appear to be dumb.

Your dog probably eats shit - you may love him to bits, but he's a bad example. He doesn't do things you don't like, that's not because of whatever you project to him. Regarding dropping garbage, I see a lot of lowlifes do that, and skin colour is not the indicator (I live in Scotland, which is multi-coloured in big cities). As I read it somewhere, it might be "I don't give a fuck about the world since the world doesn't give a fuck about me" attitude, which I think it correlates with the kind of people that exhibit that behaviour in my experience.

It's funny because the same way "regular" people are polarised to political left/right, it seems that people who interact more with AI (tech, higher ed, gov, etc) are becoming as aggressively tribal and binary. Apparently there's no middle ground, it's either "AI is the best" or "AI is garbage", yet another example of the amplification of extremes in social media. FWIW I fully agree with your stance.

I think you've become a bit unhinged with the whole AI thing. Since when are we defining "General Intelligence" in a way that it's something that the average person "doesn't use"? Says who? You? It makes you sound like an elitist dehumanizing prick. Don't make it a skill issue, as that's a losing battle. And talking about statistical parrots, you're also acting like one, as at every AI story you'll parrot the same viewpoint, no matter the data presented. Maybe you can use that General Intelligence of yours and reflect on what the not-quite-peddlers in the first paragraph have to say, as the people in the 2nd paragraph can be safely ignored - their stance is as repetitive as yours, even though differently motivated. Be better than this.

It clearly doesn't want to shut down. MS software is too clever