Survivorship of older games is a really good indicator that they’ll continue to be available in the future. Like you said, too many modern games are online only and turn to expensive nothingness when the servers are shut down.

Yeah I start at the 5, clockwise.

It’s not a normal choice of game controller but people have played games with weirder.

Not necessarily, but everyone having access to cheap labor AND raw materials would ensure that.

Now I’m not going to pretend that AI is anywhere close to being a source of cheap labor. It really can’t do much without a human to assist it.

I’m not entirely sure of that. While corporate AI would certainly cause that, right now there are open weights models which can be run on a relatively affordable computer, and they are not that far behind. These models are able to democratize AI benefits rather than concentrate it.

I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing. ChatGPT is, if nothing else, decent at writing in a respectful, professional manner.

The substance is lacking of course, but it IS good at stringing together words.

Or shirts apparently

China has a big problem with selling an identical product fifteen times through twelve different companies.

I think it’s an SEO strategy for Amazon, where they edge out any competition by being everywhere on the first page of search results. They also have the ability to game reviews by killing any products that get bad reviews and recreating them under a new brand.

The movie had themes about AI revolution, while the book was around robopsychology. Since this anecdote was about an AI gaslighting itself, it’s far more appropriate than the movie thematically.

Claude eventually resolved its existential crisis by convincing itself the whole episode had been an elaborate April Fool’s joke, which it wasn’t. The AI essentially gaslit itself back to functionality, which is either impressive or deeply concerning, depending on your perspective.

Now THAT’S some I, Robot shit. And I’m not talking about the Will Smith movie, I’m talking about the original book.

If you wear a skirt, your gender disappears.

What, you’ve never written markdown?

Forget monogamy, I just need a mathematical relationship!

Monogamy? In THIS economy?

So non-monogamy is generally looked down upon because a lot of people have bad outcomes from it.

In the vast majority of these situations, the couple has decided to see other people because they are trying to avoid or alleviate the problems they are currently dealing with. If you or your spouse are not mature enough to handle one relationship, there’s no way in hell that the exponential complexity of a polyamorous relationship will work.

That being said, it sounds like you ARE one of the few people who are considering non-monogamy for the right reasons. Some of the most important things you need to do to make this successful:

• Great communication. No games, no bottling up your feelings. You need to be able to clearly express what your hopes and fears are, and then listen to those from each other person.
• Handle jealousy and loneliness. If you’re a jealous-type person, best to stop now. You need to be comfortable with your partners spending a significant amount of time together, without you. And you need to use that time doing things you want to do, not feeling left out.
• Secure in your self. Don’t base your self-worth on what your partner thinks about you. Successful non-monogamous people are not dependent on their partners as their sole source of happiness.
• Flexibility. You need to be adaptable to new situations, because a lot of things will be changing rapidly. Successful polyamorous people embrace the ever-changing nature of life rather than try to stop it.
• Be able to handle loss. All relationships end at some point. With non-monogamy, that happens far more often than with just two people. Remember that a relationship ending doesn’t invalidate the goodness it brought to your life in the past. You need to be prepared to process events like this.

One great book on non-monogamy is More Than Two. I highly recommend everybody giving it a read before moving forward.

Having a polyamorous relationship can be very fulfilling! If you can navigate the complexity, it’s a wonderful way to maximize life.

He’s just trying to win some more bread for Europe. Eventually everything will be fully subsidized by fines on American companies.

Part cost is estimated to be under $5000 and take a week for a novice roboticist to build. Very cool, but me and my kids will probably skip this one.

They used to be a non-profit. Doubly fucking hypocrites.

OpenAI’s core message was “we can’t release our GPT model because people will try to use it for war”.

Fucking hypocrites.

Even the cheap ones accelerate faster, ride smoother, and are quieter. You don’t have to get oil changes, and the brakes don’t wear down as fast. Plus I can recharge at home, which is loads cheaper than buying gasoline.

And this is all with a relatively ancient Nissan Leaf, the new vehicles are all far better.

Oh, and let’s not forget that even very small air quality improvements have noticeable improvements in lung health! Humans were not meant to be breathing gasoline fumes or combustion exhaust.