We're probably seeing demand destruction. I'm curious if the thin-client thing that a lot of these companies seem to want will actually take off. I've also been noticing a lot of "cyberdeck" and retro handheld stuff lately; I wonder if that's related.

Figure out what the executive's day-to-day workflow is like, then make agents to do their job. Either they'll get an understanding of how inadequate it is, or they'll be able to just sit around doing nothing useful (assuming that's not what they do already).

Had similar thoughts this morning. I think it's clear that many countries are going to head down the Great Firewall route; which is now very effective. It's so hard to bypass and risky that most people don't attempt to. As more countries implement these measures, and the list of countries/datacenters where people can set up XRay proxies (for example) shrinks, it will be easier to detect and block. I imagine if ad-hoc meshes became popular, then they'd be shutdown too. The problem is more political than technological.

Some of these feelings are very intellectual and abstract, and I think they have very little to do with having a body.

I've seen good arguments that they have a lot to do with the body. There are tons of neurons outside the brain feeding it data and stimuli, often subconsciously, and tons of hormones being transferred around the body. Our digestive system can control how we feel about things before the brain even logically processes them (gut-feeling, not just digestive related stuff). If the toddler didn't associate the cookie with something that made him feel good, would he have cared? Is there even a good "feeling" without the rest of the body? Perhaps LLMs could implicitly learn to imitate systems like this without explicitly being trained to, IDK.

I already covered that in my last sentence. Those things aren't the things that take the bulk of the time, in my experience; I guess other peoples jobs are different. Generally, everything I write needs to maintained long term, or at least until the company goes under.

I think models would need embodiment and a simulated hormonal system to "experience" pain. I mean, you could trivially train a simple model to express pain, but is it really pain? I suppose that's a philosophical question. Params of models are frozen during inference too, making them less analogous to animal brains. A ANN is a very large set of numbers and mathematical operators (just a bunch of linear algebra), and typically only very loosely based on real NNs (being a model of a network is just about the only similarity). Though, that doesn't rule out the possibility of pain; depending on how "pain" is defined.

I've tried (and still try) to find good workflows using AI, but I don't think I've found anything that saves time. To get the same quality using AI, I have to go back and forth with it a lot, and review all the bloated bullshit it generates. If you don't care about quality or the thing even working correctly (e.g. prototypes/POCs), it's really fast.

They probably don't want to exhaust their drones and missiles, because even if there is a peace agreement, it's likely Israel will start bombing them again in a year or two (or sooner). Closing the strait puts enough pressure on the US and the world to force them to back off without using too many munitions.

That's how all software, except Free Software, works. Most media as well (except copyleft).

What does this have to do with age? It's class war.

*every executive

Mastodon has some weird etiquette I don't quite understand. Maybe it's because I've never really used "microblogging" or much social media outside old forums. Most people seem to use it for self-promotion. If you respectfully disagree on some part of someone's post or just try to be helpful and add more context, sometimes the OP gets upset (I've heard the term "reply-guy" mentioned on there before, and also seen "experts" pulling the "do you know who you are talking to" card when others try to add context). There is little discussion and interaction from what I've seen; mostly just posts without meaningful replies.

Politically, Lemmy seems to lean left-ish. Mastodon leans liberal, but there's more variety than Lemmy (I guess since interaction is low). I haven't used Bsky, but I saw when Stephen King announced he voted for Platner he got dogpiled (dunno if that means Bsky leans establishment Dem that would prefer zionist and corporate Janet Mills or what).