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Filligree
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- People are able to move around, to some degree, so housing prices are a function of supply across most of the nation. Or at least the desirable portions.
Rent control on the other hand has mostly local effects.
Which means, rent control can push prices down and keep them down. There is indeed a supply reduction, and prices on average will go up—but not in the rent controlled area.
It’s still a poor idea, but it requires centralised planning to avoid.
- And did they?
Sometimes the solution is obvious, such that if you ask three engineers to solve it you’ll get three copies of the same solution, whereas that might not happen if they’re able to communicate.
I’m sure they knew what they were doing, but I wonder how they avoided that scenario.
- It’s not necessarily harder than other aspects. However:
- It requires an AI that actually understands English, I.e. an LLM. Older, diffusion-only models were naturally terrible at that, because they weren’t trained on it.
- It requires the AI to make no mistakes on image rendering, and that’s a high bar. Mistakes in image generation are so common we have memes about it, and for all that hands generally work fine now, the rest of the picture is full of mistakes you can’t tell are mistakes. Entirely impossible with text.
Nano Banana Pro seems to somewhat reliably produce entire pictures without any mistakes at all.
Latency. 120ms extra latency makes many games uncomfortable, and some of them entirely unplayable.