Maybe im misunderstanding:

Are you saying that there necessarily exists for all not extinct species of social mammals a “common-sense-overriding mechanism”?

Specific to his ability to keep the media engaged, i think it’s that he’s just exactly the right kind of stupid.

I think about how Ken M is so effective at dragging people into his stupidity…now that is BRILLIANT. Calculated. A true master.

Trump is merely a savant. Mozart to Ken M’s Salieri.

Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.

I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.

I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.

Rogan is one of the very few who I think is actually just the right kind of dumb to explain his actions.

I’m not a fan. Anyone who says they like him I appreciate, because they’re telling me exactly how much weight to give any opinion they voice from that point forward.

I weigh Rogan against other stupid people. People like Hulk Hogan or kid rock. Those guys would still be cheering for Trump if he was literally pissing in thier faces, not even for any benefit. They’re just helplessly stupid. Too stupid for me to reasonably even comprehend. Absolute enigmas.

There are others who completely understand how nuts he is but are just doing a bit to enrich themselves… like Owens or Coulter or Shapiro.

I’ve never seen anything from Rogan to suggest he’s got any calculus in what he does. I’m open to hearing examples, though, if anyone has any.

It must drive the others nuts that he blunders into a success they can’t engineer through methodical manipulation.

Keeping anything at any temperature different than whatever it’s interacting with takes energy. Hot or cold.

I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.

I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.

Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.

Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”

Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?

Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.

Somebody way smarter than me needs to read this and explain to me if writing for a GPU isn’t roughly the direction the author was hinting at, and as far as I know does exist?

I think that’s fair comparison.

The difference was that investment followed realizable value for PCs. Or cell phones. Or iPods. Or “the cloud”. The horse and carriage were in a sane order.

The internet itself might be an even better comparison, with VC dumping money into anything without an understanding of how to get a return.

If ANYONE had reproducible guidance on how to get positive value out of these systems… they’d be booming like NVIDIA. It’s another “during the gold rush, sell shovels” model.

Raises an eyebrow that we’re not seeing it.

I think these companies are sitting, waiting, and praying for an emergent use-case to reveal itself. They’re spending money to be prepared to corner a market that as-of-yet doesn’t exist.

A one dollar coin with a picture of a loon, eh?

The relatively slow tempo and narrow range… I’m not even sure if the tuning would really matter. I imagine a competent player of any era could play this on a single string.

Not sure if it was Microsoft or my org but I was asked several times to stop using “bummer burt” in all my comms

If it was fine before, no hw changes, no sw changes, and the only delta was the CMOS battery… really think it’s a bios issue

A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.

Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.

So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.

I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?

I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.

I’m pretty sure if you played mp2 in an empty sealed room for 14 hours straight you’d somehow come out reeking of whisky and cigarettes.

No like a multipanel shitpost using a meme template skewering the general plot of star trek voyager where the humor is based on a reductive interpretation of the general premise

I just burned down like the Amazon to get the most worthless posts ever.

I’m sure if I hand fed it what I wanted, it could have generated ops image… but im pretty skeptical it produced that image without a relatively detailed prompt

I was thinking more like a shitpost.

Yeah im skeptical:

Make a meme image that summarizes the plot of star trek voyager

3 was great on it’s own merits as a game, but the noir elements were ratched way down compared to the first and second.

Max Payne 2 was… I dunno… damn well perfect for what it was supposed to be in the era it was developed with the technology of the time.