The last decade has been those “middle class” jobs moving to China/India and providing way more of them with jobs that pull them from starving to not starving.

You can debate policy stuff of offshoring and whatever, but globalization isn’t removing jobs. It’s moving them. It’s completely separate from technology making labor more efficient.

Every one of them raised the floor very quickly. The increase in travel made way better quality of life available to way more people. But this isn’t the Middle Ages. You don’t need to enslave yourself to someone for a decade before you can get a new job.

LLMs can’t do anything. “AI” will eventually replace jobs, but LLMs (the current “AI” everyone is spending through the nose on) can’t actually do anything.

Self driving will be a great thing that saves lives exactly as quickly as it’s implemented. It’s not really connected at all to the current “AI” LLM bubble, though, because again, LLMs don’t work.

How does if feel ignoring the billions of future people you’re actively trying to fuck over by preventing progress that makes their life better, because you think helping people today by making their lives better is a bad thing?

Continuous learning is part of your responsibility as a human. Your one example of someone losing their job would be fine if there weren’t also thousands of other people starving who get better access to food by the same progress. Statistics are people. They’re just the people you’re ignoring to make the world a worse place.

You don’t just learn, get a job, and be set forever. That’s not the real world. It’s not supposed to be the real world. You develop yourself, apply that development to getting a job, then keep learning and keep developing yourself to be ready for the next opportunity.

The real world isn’t stable, and companies fail with or without technological advances. All your anecdotes are just that, and things that are happening every day with or without progress.

Less people will be starving in 2-3 years with every meaningful advance in tech. Progress makes the world a better place at every level of the ladder. The Luddites were terrible people actively working to make the world a worse place, to try to maintain their own monopoly. But a hell of a lot more people had access to warm clothes when their insane nonsense got put down and clothes became easy to mass produce.

Again, that isn’t LLMs because LLMs have functionally zero value. But even the poorest of the poor are better off when technology changes industry, and yes, new skilled jobs have always come back quickly.

lol their stories are already ads.

Merchandising on kids shows and books is silly money.

There are other jobs. Adapting and changing is part of life.

Every technologically advancement throughout history has resulted in the floor, ceiling, and median quality of life significantly advancing in short order. There isn’t a group who isn’t better off very quickly as a result of the change that was always inevitable.

Change isn’t bad.

That specific field is lost. “There aren’t enough jobs” has never been more than a short term issue, while the technological progress idiots complain about is constantly moving the standard of living massively forward.

This iteration of “AI” won’t replace workers long term because it doesn’t work. But when we get to the point where it actually can, the standard of living will, once again, be massively better across the board as a direct result of the ability to do more work with less effort.

He doesn’t believe in smiling because he thinks smiling means you don’t look cool.

Raise the cross bar 50% and narrow the width.

It doesn’t really matter whether it’s LLMs. There are limits to the value of creating an increasing amount of new hardware to do any particular math, but once you have the hardware it’s pretty easy to find applications for the electricity to pay for itself.

There are countless spaces that will benefit from as much math as we can give them for a long time.

At least with the 360 you’re sure which one you’re talking about.

It’s like how they made the Xbox, then the Xbox one, then the Xbox one X, then the Xbox series X. (Yeah there were other options between/simultaneous, but this sequence is a nice clean illustration.)

Except it has the same outcome on every other platform it’s on, for the exact same reasons.

The wisdom of crowds only works when the inputs are independent.

People are meaningfully biased to conform to group opinions.

You realize they still sell many, many copies on all the platforms that aren’t PC and don’t have meaningful mod availability?

Skyrim isn’t selling a bunch of copies on Switch for $30 on sale because of PC mods it can’t use.

You get better at football by playing football. There isn’t enough practice time to fully develop a QB if you start him and give him every practice rep, let alone with the massively limited work you can do if you if he’s the backup.

Jordan Love looked like a rookie last year. Mahomes lost playoff games because he didn’t know how to read a defense after wasting a year on the bench.

Either a guy learns from his experiences or he doesn’t. But not playing doesn’t give him a path to the learning that’s required to play QB at a high level.

Speech written by a human. It’s not complicated.

It cannot possibly be human speech if it was produced by a machine.

The problem is that LLMs aren’t human speech and any dataset that includes them cannot be an accurate representation of human speech.

It’s not “LLMs convinced humans to use ‘delve’ a lot”. It’s “this dataset is muddy as hell because a huge proportion of it is randomly generated noise”.

I can’t find any list of what they actually released in 2024.

But dredge and blasphemous 2 are still pretty recent that they explicitly mention as back catalogue that make sense to be doing OK.

It’s a collection of games you pick from a menu. The premise is that they’re all from the same studio back then, but they’re mostly standalone.

I’ve only tried a couple so far (the first couple) and they feel pretty basic. I guess if the theory is that they’re progression in their development over time the more compelling stuff would be later? Regardless, I wasn’t expecting 50 masterpieces, and they’ve made a point of communicating that they won’t all be huge and heavily featured.

I’d definitely be interested in suggestions of ones that stand out though.

Edit: Mortol is the first one I can really see spending some time trying to master. It’s a platformer where you have finite lives and need to kill yourself one of three ways to make a path forward for the next guy. I’m going on to new ones for now, but I like it.