Yeah, I was going to say something similar. What job you take, where you decide to live, friends you make all have a risk/reward element to them.

That being said I do believe there is a big difference between polymarket/prediction markets and stocks (or at least some stocks). Prediction markets is either betting on pure chance or against insider knowledge. Technically stocks should be seen as investing in a company (especially ones that pay dividends). Could a company run into hard times and lose you money, sure, but there is at least a bit more freely available information on that available to you.

I’m not talking about price, I’m talking about generation.

I have solar panels, they are great. However, I get too much energy in the summer, not nearly enough in the winter, and no power at night. Since I’m on a grid that doesn’t matter too much for me, but highlights some of the issues.

Even if I installed a battery, I’d end up with extra power in the summer and not enough in the winter. Which just highlights the discrepancy in production. Batteries obviously help solve this, but some mixture of wind/nuclear/other is needed.

Solar still has some huge problems when it comes to seasonality and day/night cycle. You either need massive battery build out or some other form of energy to handle base loads and/or offset when solar isn’t producing enough.

Not saying solar isn’t part of the future, but we literally can’t just rely on solar.

Since Gacha stems from Gashapon vending machines (source - Wiki Gacha, I feel like medium purists should stick to vending machines only.

I think this is more interesting limiting it to fictional pieces or work, as many of the non-fiction examples were written to have a real world impact.

Also one I didn’t see was The China Syndrome. If you’re unfamiliar it was a drama about a nuclear incident, but happened to release just days before the Three Mile Incident. Meaning it was a one-two punch to the nuclear industry and something people point to about nuclear energy stalling in the US.

That’s just not true. I can’t speak for mines, but warehousing and collecting garbage from the ocean and other domains do have fully autonomous systems.

Humanoid robots aren’t really used anywhere, but that’s cause they aren’t really a functional product yet.

Not the person you responded to, but I’ve liked Tainted Grail a lot.

It feels more like what skyrim should be in that the RPG elements are more integrated with the gameplay while still keeping the action moving.

Some general thoughts:

• I like the writing, it’s nice to have a different world/setting.
• the combat is okay, but at least requires a bit of skill/strategy.
• I like the more limited item set with a focus on upgrading/modifying weapons rather than just finding good gear.
• The fact attributes actually matter in quests/dialog is nice to see and done decently well.
• Crafting actually feels somewhat rewarding and useful.

You can tell the Fed doesn’t know what to do given they keep pretending inflation is tied to economic activity and not trade wars and actual wars.

In a normal world the Fed would be calling on the President or Congress to enact policy to curb inflation since its a type of inflation the Fed has no control over, but no one seems to want to call Trump on all the damage he’s been doing.

The Metroidvania Prince of Persia (Lost Crown) is amazing, the rouge lite Prince of Persia is just okay.

I mean, it’s either American (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) Billionaires or Chinese (Alibaba, Z. AI) Billionaires making the models.

And even if you find a model not built by the billionaire class, you still require datacenters to train the models.

And even then, the data required to build these models must take from millions of artists/writers/etc.

I’m not saying you have to hate AI, but saying you can run a model locally doesn’t change who created it and how they created it.

I feel like it probably breaks one of your rules, but an ironman or gundam suit would be great. For the ironman angle I guess you could just say the repulsors since that gives you flight while still being offensive.

I mean, nailgun has “gun” in it, but we don’t consider those weapons. Sure they could be used that way, but so can most industrial tools/equipment.

I mean, the assault on her citizenship is an intimidation tactic, I’m just saying her moving isn’t necessarily her giving into the intimidation. It doesn’t sound like shes backing down from the fight in any meaningful way, so moving seems more about control than anything else.

I would worry they bugged my home if I was her. I’m not sure the move is over intimidation, but lack of trust/security in the current place.

Does the ending make it worth it? I watched it on a plane and bailed after I saw enough abuse at the beach, but could be tempted to give it another try if the ending at least provides some decent closure or meaning to the story.

Robot Dreams is so depressing and unnecessarily cruel that I wouldn’t recommend it. Maybe things pick up by the end, but I couldn’t make it through it.

It’s a linear game, but I enjoyed it a lot. Not sure if the parrying is more forgiving or if the timing for parrying is just more direct, but I found it a lot easier to get into the rythmn compared to sekiro.

I think it’s more likely they make it dangerous enough that large countries can’t afford to not have it. That’s what largely seems to be happening in the US and China, both countries probably see AI as both a weapon and defensive tool.

My response was only in regard to the speed in which something like IoT devices can operate.

You’re right that goals/directions of LLMs can be persisted anywhere, but a swarm or fleet of AI running on IoT devices will be severly hampered by compute (based on current models). Which was the main point I was making, in that there is only so much you can do to distribute their processing. Meaning you can parallelize the number of models, but can’t speed them up beyond a certain limit. This is based on the fact that some form of a layer and it’s weights must exist within the memory of a single device.

The downside to this limitation is that it is temporary, eventually IoT devices will probably be powerful enough, or the worms could just attack phones/laptops and easily get the compute they need. I think the real risk of IoT devices is low security mixed with low “supervision” (no one would easily notice their IoT device is doing extra processing).

This is like the like the “9 women in one month to make a baby” comment.

There is only so much you can distribute the layers of a model due to interconnectedness. And you can’t run multiple inferences at the same time because the next token relies on the previous.

You could be doing multiple things at once, but each task will run “100,000x” if the OC did their math right.