Missed opportunity for "It's a cruel, cruel summer."

This is all about the surveillance state isn't it?

They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing. I’m certainly not interested in managing this bizarre polite lying daydream machine.

This is where I am right now. They are pushing AI hard at work, even shaming people that haven't signed up for copilot. They brought in some MS rep to tell us how the future of work was going to be wrangling AI agents. This is not the future that I want.

I'm reminded of that Folding Ideas video where he writes a book for some get rich quick book mill scheme. I bet that stuff is all AI now.

it's interesting that Yud doesn't realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko

god damn couldn't even get past the first paragraph where he describes himself, while trying to attribute it to others

https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/

And by costlier he means power consumption. Ten thousand times more powerful! Still can't do basic math without handing it off to a calculator.

probably just a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomat

My first memory of programming was typing in a BASIC program for hours with my older cousin into his VIC-20 from a magazine where the last, like, ten pages were nothing but hexadecimal numbers. Ended up being a Robotron clone. We played it for a while then turned off the computer and it was gone.

I loved making maps for Q3. I made so many of them, some even got rotation on some servers. The simplicity was perfect for someone like me, just brushes and shaders. When UT2K4 came out I decided to try to make maps for that, but everything was intricate 3D models, which i couldn't do, so I gave up and went back to Q3.

I even made some maps for Q1, but I think I spent most of my time trying to make mods. My favorite was an inferno gun from Battletech: Crescent Hawk's Inception, which used the rocket launcher to shoot a fireball that would stick to the target and do big damage in ticks.

Huh. That sounds exactly like those work from home scams. Surely an AI company wouldn't do such a thing. Right?