Even if you’re absolutely spot on, there is a second place, I believe. So far, all of these AI tools are software. Specialized hardware helps, but is not nearly as important as the software.

Software is information, and secret information is only ever temporarily so. If that secret represents the distinction between existence and not, there is extreme pressure to learn that secret.

“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”

Me neither. Both have a chance of getting it right, but not a great one.

That’s just a failure of imagination. This problem was solved before the Information Age and Ticketmaster/LiveNation unsolved it.

That requires a plan. Right now they’re operating on a concept of a plan.

He has them, but orders Big Macs instead for some reason.

Truly, you have led a blessed life.

I just meant that there’s so many excellent games, old and new, everywhere you look, that it is easy to just walk past ones that seemed like they have anything even remotely distasteful about them.

That other ant colony on the other side of the sidewalk looks pretty good!

Its true that they have gotten better at their “simmer tactics”, as you put it, but they have also let a lot of unrelenting blowhards into their ranks that have been so far impossible for them to stifle and are really cramping their style.

I’ve often felt that while history seems doomed to its cyclical nature, we have lived straddling two ages in human history. I am of course not at all sure how the Information Age will effect history unfolding this time and into the future, but I think it simply has to have some effect that has never before been seen prior, which is scary, but also fascinating and exciting.

One glimmer of hope I see already is the xenophobic, nationalist nature of these strongman autocrat types that cover the pages of history books does not play well at all anywhere but at home. Every time I see one of these infamous goons try to reach across the national boundary to help a fellow authoritarian gain or consolidate power, presumably in an effort to build up a new “Axis”, it is a kiss of death. In the past, it was much easier for these things to happen away from the public eye, and for the grotesqueness of the foreign autocrat to be largely unknown at home, but now the smoky back room is being live streamed around the globe, and the foreign autocrat has a billion views on social media.

Maybe the revolution be televised after all!

At the rate that software was bloating over the years, I’m surprised humanity has produced enough RAM already to load the latest version.

It is a bit of a mess, but it does have its advantages, too. I’m not even sure how I would go about finding some malware for my computer, for example. On Windows, almost every application you can name has an alternate malware clone you can easily stumble across, and surely millions of people install regularly.

Yeah, but it’s complicated like an ant colony–incredibly complex and nuanced, but tiny, inconsequential, and easy to ignore.

I got one whiff of that dumpster fire and thought, “You know what? I’m going to check out some of the near-infinite other entertainment options available to me in the Information Age and give that whole thing a miss.” I’m sure a significant portion of other people interested in the game came to a similar conclusion, which can’t be ideal for their sales goals.

That’s just really good emulation at work. Alt+tab crashes tons of games in Windows, too!

Have hope; the pendulum always swings. One silver lining is that in this late stage of this current swing of the pendulum, many closeted villains have taken off their disguises to go party in the streets with their collaborators. When it swings the other way, there will be extensive documentation of who they all are, rather than just the scapegoats and figureheads.

Or maybe if quantum stillbirth is real, he died in a miscarriage and this is one of his infinite idiot ghosts.

I think that most of these guys know what radioactive lightning rods they are, and are savvy enough to at least understand that if they leave the safety of their domestic propaganda apparatus, they’re on their own in an environment likely hostile to them.

This guy’s apparently limited understanding of his role and where his bread is buttered thought he could make the same ass of himself over there as he did back home without consequence, and he was mistaken.

Unfortunately, I think most of those you listed, while dumb in a lot of ways, are savvy enough to know to keep a low profile when they go into enemy territory, which is essentially any place with a population higher than a bus.

I mean, he does have those things. I think that there is a widespread crisis of understanding of what those freedoms actually entail. To distill it down philosophically, freedom of speech and expression mean that a person with those freedoms can say anything they want and express themselves in any way they like, so long as those actions don’t infringe on the freedoms of anyone else.

There are no main characters, so everyone gets the same rights (for the sake of discussion; I know there are a million caveats here). Any right that everyone gets has to have borders around each individual, or those rights are auto-trampled by everyone else, for everyone.

This guy will have 6 months to reflect and learn that nuance. Let’s see if he does!

Maybe so, but it sounds like it was on increasingly obscure platforms. Even if he has an army of degenerate worshippers, he surely gets less media exposure, his financial lifeblood, on platforms nobody’s heard of, and one would think his viewership would decline over time even without getting locked away for the safety of basically everyone around him.

If it is “from the Makers of Thunderbird”, then I think it stands to reason that at least someone on the Thunderbird project spent time on this that they could have spent on that.

These FOSS projects barely have enough resources to complete their primary charter most of the time, so it really grates to see them squander their most limited assets.

I have read summaries of emails and meetings that had the action items all sorts of wrong, sometimes completely inverted.

It seems to me that if an email or meeting is at all important, the stakes are too high to trust the summary, and if it is not important, neither is its summary.

Add on to that the fact that locally running LLMs are even more scatterbrained, I don’t see how this fills even the limited need you’re describing in any useful way.

So, they spent their limited available manpower on an unrequested feature, and to add insult to injury, the feature is unlikely to have effective practical uses. It might be capable of more limited scope text prediction like code auto-complete, but the field is already flooded with those. I think the Thunderbird users have far more use from improvements to Thunderbird than they do for other unrelated products.