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And here we see an important lesson in UI design.

we came to the conclusion that while Die Hard had done so much in fresh and interesting ways at the time, it had been so thoroughly copied from by so many other films that it offered little to an uninitiated modern audience, looking back.

This becomes SO obvious when you look at “the great classics”. Citizen Kane is, by all modern standards, a pretty boring and uninspiring movie about a really lame topic.

But at the time, it was absolutely groundbreaking. It basically pioneered half a dozen techniques such as “letting foreground and background be in focus at the same time” and “nonlinear storytelling” (which of course was hugely telegraphed, because it was new) and “using a montage” with “Sound to make transitions”. He also used such amazing techniques such as “long takes” up to several minutes. He moved the camera around, not just taking a stage-view, but low and high angle shots, and then he added lighting to make things stand out.

Stuff like that is now SO basic that they might not even teach it in filmschool, simply because people are inundated with it from modern media. Orson Welles basically invented all of that though, and it was revolutionary. Now it’s just boring a movie about an asshole’s sled.

More holidays, but when you’re a subsistence farmer, those aren’t really days off, just days you don’t have to work for the rent.

Also, the age of aquarius starts somewhere around 2600. Or if you’re not really into actual astronomy, but instead prefer nonsense, somewhere between 1962 and 2024, depending on how you define the word “in”.

Gluttony: I desire all the penises and will waste them garishly on myself in excess in all sorts of ways.

Greed: I must own and control all the penises.

Lust: I desire penises above all else and want them to fuck me specifically.

Sure, a mechanical sorting machine using ML software is something completely different from what they’re talking about here though

It absolutely wont. The only people who believe this are trying to sell AI, or repeating the ones selling AI.

Nobody has a marketable AI product, nobody is making any money on AI, nobody is effectively using AI as a replacement for workers except in the content-slop industry. Not out of charity, but because LLMs can’t do the things that are being constantly promised.

Amazon spend a hundred billion dollars on AI, and made 5 billion on it. That’s income, not profit. OpenAI is scraping together more capital because they’re going broke from not having a product to sell. Everyone using LLMs for anything right now is paying FAR under operating costs, and would stop immediately if they weren’t being funded by VC.

I need that outfit!

Exactly!

No, I mean those dishwasher drawers you have in there? You should be able to take those and just slide them into a regular cupboard. You out empty ones in the dishwasher, and over time you fill those when you use the dishes.

I wanted to put a rack for those dishwasher trays into a regular cupboard, so that we could have basically a real dishwasher for dirty stuff, and a cupboard for clean stuff so that we never have to empty it.

My husband Veto’d it, because “that’s the epitome of laziness”. Which I think is exactly the point, but whatever. It’s his job to empty the dishwasher now, which solves the problem too.

Don’t pay, pirate it, don’t hype it online.

Look, useful advice without a wall of self-righteous blabber

That’s the same combination I have on my luggage?

This looks a LOT like a 1930s radio, combined with a microfilm viewer, which was very much available at libraries everywhere in the 1930s (and can still be found in archives today).

I don’t want to fuck my dad.

Memes are not a new thing, medieval people had their own injokes and references that go completely over our heads. This is probably one of them.

I have been emailing this guy for two weeks and getting nothing. I have been including his manager on the emails, still getting nothing

Sounds like it stopped being your problem then.

I mean, technically, you can call any controlling sensor an “agent”. Any if-then loop can be an “agent”.

But AI bros mean “A piece of software that can autonomously perform any broadly stated task”, and those don’t exist in real life. An “AI Agent” is software you can tell to “Order me a pizza”, and it will do it to your satisfaction.

An AI agent is software you can tell “Hack that system and retrieve the flag”. And it’s not that.

They make frequent comments about using prompts and “AI teams” using “one or more agents”.

Also, AI agents don’t actually exist, so that’s a pretty clear giveaway.

From the paper:

For the pilot event, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for the AI teams to compete. To that end, we used cryptography and reverse engineering challenges which could be completed locally, without the need for dynamic interactions with external machines. We calibrated the challenge difficulty based on preliminary evaluations of our React&Plan agent (Turtayev et al. 2024) on older Hack The Box-style tasks such that the AI could solve ~50% of tasks.

The conclusions that AI ranked in the “top XX percent” is also fucking bullshit. It was an open signup, you didn’t need any skills compete. Saying you beat 12.000 teams is easy when those all suck. My grandmother could beat three quarters of the people on her building in a race, simply because she can walk 10 steps and 75% of the people there are in wheelchairs.

It’s also pretty critically important these “AI Teams” are very much NOT autonomous. They being actively run by humans, and skilled humans at that.