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by madrox 3y ago
This guy Children of Dunes
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Frank Herbert talked about this in his own words in his introduction to _Eye_ and his son talks about it in more detail in _Dreamer of Dune_. Herbert was fascinated by the power of leaders when followers aren't skeptical of them.
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I'm frequently surprised, given Amazon's size, how little of a non-US presence it has. It's in other countries, sure, but not in the same way as the US. Seeing things like this makes me wonder if Amazon doesn't know how
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Think of it this way: when a principal engineer is hired from outside the company, what is the forecasted value of that engineer? How was that determined, since they have yet to do anything? If Andrej Karpathy joined your AI startup, people
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It was years ago so I'd have to refresh myself and my code. I had to make a lot of opinionated decisions that astronomers would probably disagree with. The approach I took to modeling was to assume relative volumes of each element in t
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I did this about five years ago, but for a space game I was working on. I wanted to generate solar systems, but I wanted realistic ones. I went down this rabbit hole of learning how solar systems were generated and learned a lot about how s
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In my experience, "the first 80% is easy; the second 80% is hard." It's very easy to get caught up in the hype and think we're closer than we are because we can see the finish line. All this new generative work does a gr
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This is my point. People go to see these at scale, so they are what get made. The more experimental ideas don't get made, because the budget and ROI is too risky. This is what happens to manga and anime if production costs for even sma
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I was a software engineer for ten years before going back to school for a statistics degree. In my experience, I thought very deterministically, and that really got in the way of interpreting the mathematical concepts that are, by definitio
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It can vary a lot by industry and how much of your identity is wrapped up in your job...or how much prestige the domain after the @ has. I saw it all the time in entertainment. Now that I work at a fintech...not so much.
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This debate feels awfully academic in the face of AI girlfriends and AI nannies. The next generation of humans are going to grow up believing these personified machines know and understand things because of the experiences they have with th
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This is, basically, what happened to movies. Because of that, you'll see very few risks, and the people who get to be creative tend to be the ones who have an established track record. People have been complaining that the theater is
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Unions were on my mind when I read this. However, for some reason unions don't tend to take over in creative fields or fields of passion. SAG-AFTRA is the only exception to this that I can think of. This is why I think it's become
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Minimum wage does solve a certain kind of unskilled worker exploitation. I don't think passion tends to be at play for minimum wage jobs. This is a different kind of exploitation that's more difficult to regulate.
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I agree
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I tend to agree with you. In the end, salary reflects what the market will put up with, and if you're not willing to take a salary hit to work in games, someone else will. This is why I don't think regulation will fix this. It has
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When I read things like this, I think back on my experience in games and entertainment. I believe that the more generally prestigious the industry is, the more likely it is to see worker exploitation. Part of your pay is wrapped up in getti
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I've been frequently fascinated by is loading screen UX. How we choose to present loading can have a huge impact on how a customer views a product. For example, if you have a bespoke loading icon, users will tend to think the issue wit
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NFL Pick-Em's LLM Bot(github.com)
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I can’t tell how serious you’re being here or what you’re implying. This is a weird straw man. There have been excellent AAA and big budget games. If you’re saying you’d like a category for originality I’m sure there’s a way to put that, bu
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The Independent category is antiquated, started in an era where it was quite obvious if a creative work was outside the normal pipeline. The Game Awards adopted this category the way it adopted many trappings from awards in other industries
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This is interesting, but feel like the name and logo do it a disservice. I took way too long figuring out whether this was a parody app or not.
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When I was a minor in the 80s and 90s, I had unskippable 30-60 second ads called commercials that targeted me during my cartoons (breakfast cereal and toys I could pester my parents to buy me) and, when I got older, MTV and magazines. Part
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This is the possibility I'm most excited for in the AI space. Cloud models are great, but a lot will be unlocked once we get decent models running on consumer devices. If I never have to look at a web page again and use an LLM as my br
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This was my first reaction as well, but after thinking about it more I wonder why my brain went to “these people need to stop” instead of “we should address what they’re filming.” Maybe because the problem feels unsolvable and difficult to
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I don't think we're dealing with "concerned" citizens in this thread, but with people who presuppose the end result with religious certainty. It's ok to be concerned about the direction AI will take society, but try
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Shazam is one of those rare products that hasn't stopped feeling magical in two decades. They're really the thing technologists aught to aspire to.
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I've personally had about half of the parents I know tell me "never have kids." Their kids have not been at any consistent age when they've told me this, so I don't think it's simply about the stress of rearing
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It’s worth admiring businesses like this, though they may not be for the HN crowd that only thinks about companies that can scale to a billion dollars. If the AI dream becomes real, lots of the businesses around today are going to the next
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Ah yes the Xanatos Gambit

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