I like the digital sovereignty stuff. Just wish they'd get rid of the AI act and some other rather heavyhanded, regressive rules. Then I'd probably go to Zurich and try to get into the tech scene there.

This is generally true. My brother is a musician, and he struggles to find work. I got lucky growing up working on programming projects until 3am for fun, then being interested in database research and later AI research several years before people started paying attention. I think we need a UBI so that the people who don't want to build stuff can do what they want instead of going into marketing or sales, or anything that's a net drain or neutral on society.

The (singular) fediverse girl is kind of sad

I'm really not surprised

This is why I roll my eyes when people talk about "human preference models" with a straight face

Blocks access to "protect" people? How does limiting people's freedom help?

I think it's probably marketing more than convenience

Can't tell if this guy's finally lost it or I just have a very different sense of humor from him

Oh yes, unlike the French and Dutch...???

People here keep saying folks are more chill on the West Coast, but I've lived in NYC for two years and around California for 8 (mostly the bay area), and this hasn't been my experience at all. If anything, I've noticed the opposite of the stereotype. The California folks tend to be very un-"chill" when I deviate from some social norm by accident, while New Yorkers are generally pretty accepting. I also find when I ask folks out west to be direct because I really need that they way my mind works, they still often don't, but New Yorkers will. I'm not sure what others mean when they say the West Coast is more chill since it was so much harder for me to get by there-- maybe they're talking about something else.

Though the image generators are actually good. The visual arts will never be the same after this

"Built to do my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes" -- Embodied agents is where the real value is. The chatbots are just fancy tech demos that folks started selling because people were buying.

6.7% is still very high

Sad. Reads like they needed a warm body but it didn't much matter who

Not in NYC. Spectrum is my only option and they are flaky as hell

I wish they would irradiate it instead of boiling. Irradiation is completely safe and preserves the nutritional benefits. But the raw milk people are generally opposed to that, and irradiation has a PR problem. Sadness.

LLMs can be traced back to steady, incremental progress from an initial approach explored in the '70s. Cryptocurrency isn't technology itself, but an application of the concept of distributed consensus (pioneered with PAXOS in the 80s), just like chatbots are applications of AI. I'm much more optimistic about AI and distributed consensus than cryptocurrency and chatbots, if I'm making sense.

This whole populism trend is concerning to me. I agree that some folks are more responsible than others for the problems we face today. Even so, singling out and blaming a small group of people for the problems we face, then punishing them with legislation, is not the most productive way forward. We need real, serious solutions. "Get rid of X" rarely, if ever, works.