There’s an extent to which the whole “Leopards ate my face” thing is an expression of our worst impulses. Schadenfreude feels great, but man this post makes me feel terrible for Argentina. Especially after having seen The Take. (It’s been a while since I watched it, but it left an impression.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSYeP77_2o

Watched that so many times when I was… I dunno. 13?

Of course back then, I had to spend 10 minutes waiting for it to load before I could listen to it.

“You are a fungal organism.” - Paul Stamets

It absolutely is. Super fast-paced. Not as active as it once was, but still has an active player base. My favorite servers were the CTF ones with grappling hooks enabled and no weapons except the sniper weapon and the super-jumpy boy weapon.

I played again for a few days not terribly long ago, but my skills have atrophied a lot. I wasn’t really able to hold my own. I ought to go back to it some time when I’m ready to put in the effort to get back to my previous skill level.

They’ve added vehicles and stuff since I used to play regularly. I haven’t messed with that any.

So much nostalgia there.

Woah. Command, operations, and science all in one.

My first exposure to anarchist theory was a few random players chatting on a FOSS Quake-based FPS called (at the time) “Nexuiz” (that has since renamed to “Xonotic”). I owe them a debt, but I don’t remember their usernames and I probably will never interact with them again.

There was a time when I thought I’d never like country music.

This post isn’t a question. It’s pushing an agenda. It’s barely even disguised.

But I’ll answer as if the title of the post is the question:

What role could Agentic AI have in the future?

General-purpose AI isn’t able to function reliably without a human driving it. The hype you’ve heard about AI (“agentic” or otherwise) is just hype. It’s a bubble. The bubble will continue for a time and then pop. After which time, the term “Agentic AI” will be looked back on with embarassment similarly to the way we look back on the Beanie Babie craze of the late 1990s.

How should individuals prepare?

By avoiding getting entangled/invested in anything connected to the AI bubble.

Are they really, though?

If the only way in which this post is related to “the POTUS” is that “the POTUS” recently posted an AI picture of himself as Jesus (extremely mock-worthy behavior, granted), it seems quite a stretch. If there’s some other connection between this meme and Trump, I’m missing it.

Edit: Oh, is it a joke about how when Trump was asked about the image, he said he thought it was a picture of him as a doctor? Still seems a bit of a stretch, but a little less so with that additional bit if I’m not off-base.

Hilarious, but is it really “political”?

Oh wow. Honestly, multi-extrusion has never really appealed to me until now. But this changes a lot.

So much this. I want a world where the Harry Potter canon can just be “forked” and retconned to make all the “good guy” characters Jewish trans people and all the bad guys TERFs.

Gatekeep much?

What’s your threshold for “fan”?

Hollow Earth confirmed. /s

You just described me sober.

Nobody here is talking about metaphysics except you.

Smoke.

Less.

Weed.

• What makes you think it’s ending? Can you link to a particular news article in particular? I’ve seen nothing to that effect. Even the ceasefire collapsed immediately after it was announced.
• What disruptions do you think Trump got? Again, I’ve heard nothing indicating that.
• I don’t think Trump is exceedingly unintelligent per se. He’s pretty talented at manipulating people. He’s more like… extremely immature emotionally and short-sighted. And definitely not book-smart and doesn’t care to be. Maybe even illiterate. Think -1 INT, -4 WIS. (Compared to, say, W. who was more -2 INT, -1 WIS. Or Palin who is -4 INT, -3 WIS. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.)

I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re saying the war is ending and Trump’s getting what he wanted out of it and nobody knows where you could possibly have gotten those impressions. Unless you’ve got newer news than I’ve been able to find with a minute or so of searching.

So wanting the ‘real’ thing may be part placebo, and part wanting to experience the random imperfections of a natural product.

When you cook, you get to smell the smell of the food cooking and have a period of anticipation beforehand. Similarly when you go to a restaurant, you smell the smells of the restaurant and the food they make. With replicators, you don’t get those experiences because the food springs into existence fully cooked and hot mere seconds before you start eating it. And I can imagine it feeling pretty sterile. Like it was made in a factory rather than a kitchen. Like a microwave dinner is ready in 4 minutes and you kindof get your first whiff of it and the first feeling of the steam rising off of it into your face when it first comes out of the microwave. (It hardly has a smell when frozen.) Kindof a “has everything the body needs” kind of thing but with none of the other elements that make it the sort of experience that eating should be. So, yeah. I think the MRE analogy is a good one.