- Planners. Something to help me make sense of what my priorities are during the day. Something to help me determine what needs my attention.
I have a lot of systems, but I could really use a Jarvis at work right now and it seems like the whole damn promise of AI is to deliver that. I’m waiting.
- > It’s the opposite of the usual “surprise, here’s an AI sidebar you didn’t ask for and can’t fully disable” pattern.
They literally shipped an AI sidebar nobody asked for.
- Any other threads on the prevalence and nuisance of scrapers? I didn’t have any idea it was this bad.
- If they go in this direction they're going full bore.
I love how with tech, now the only future that anyone can imagine is one that nobody but tech executives want.
- Well folks, there's very few places to go now.
- It’s not cutthroat, it’s comfortable partnership with a cutthroat veneer. If either of them wins, they have a monopoly and are at higher risk of regulation or breakup. So they fight openly over small fries, and keep writing dividend checks.
They write the rules.
- I've gone on disability, its insane the loops one has to jump through to get it, especially if you want the private disability insurance to kick in. It took months of paperwork and re-filing appeals. I'm in a state with a better safety net, but I had to work at my place for several years to qualify to earn what amounted to be around 45% of my salary while on short term disability.
Sadly people really do think that your story (which I'm sure is true) is more common.
- At this rate, maybe in 10, 20 years they might be forced to pay a few million dollar fee, and the FTC can do the can can in front of their office (after paying the venue fees of course).
- I don’t think their words mean just about anything, only the behavior of the models.
Still waiting of Full Self Driving myself.
- It had its time, but its just not accessible to people - shooters which require as much attention, mechanical skill and perseverance but at least matches are relatively quick and there's a team element. Starcraft can be just grind grind grind all of your openers and don't stop, don't sleep, don't eat, just queue
- If CBT performed as well as David Burns suggests, we’d really have no need for therapists. Alas, it turns out that cognitive problems aren’t a factor in a lot of mental health. I state this as someone who’s read all the literature and spent 8 years floundering in CBT oriented therapy without much changing but the practitioner. It’s not a cure-all or even a cure-most, but it’s treated as such because it has properties that match well to medical insurance billing practices.
> And of people I know who see a therapist, practically none can tell me what exactly they are doing or what methods they are doing or how anything is structured.
I could tell you that as a client, but that’s because I’ve read into it. This is sort of like asking an ER patient to describe the shift management system of the clinic they went into.
- It was really proof that gameplay often takes a back seat to visual identity, ESPECIALLY if the gameplay is extremely derivative, which this was. They had a massive amount of goodwill from fans of the genre, but when they started sharing screenshots it deflated fast - its not a 2025 game, its a 2010 clone of a popular 2005 game. Its nigh impossible to make a spiritual successor to genre defining games in WC3 and SC2 - too many things need to go perfect.
It had a better chance if it could find its own voice, but it ended up feeling like a direct to home video sequel to a popular movie
- I agree, I think MOBAs superceded the "real time" part of RTS's, while the more turn based Civ/4x, Total War series strategy type games ended up taking a lot of the base building part. Having them both together was just straight up difficult and incredibly intense, like the game itself demanded you be on adderall because your attention cannot wane for a single moment.
The better I got at competitive RTS's the less interesting the game got for me, it just kinda of felt like chess where there was only going to be one or two interesting interactions in the game if played well, otherwise its just a game of who makes a mistake too early.
Teamfight Tactics and Autochess are interesting newer entries though, allowing time to strategize and adding a lot of randomness to the games, where you can't just play one build. Even then though, as these games get more and more explored, "optimal" strategy gets eventually discovered and the game devs especially in TFT are in a race to try to keep things high variance but also seem fair - its definitely a difficult job!
- > AI companies will be paid a portion of the savings from claims they deny or, as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction plan puts it, “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.”
Maybe someone who’s really good at Markets and Incentives can tell us all what might happen here.
- This really isn’t the free market, this is de facto cartels when like 90% of media properties are owned by 3 or 4 companies.
- It’s more that it takes so long to get anything done, the effort and results need to be recorded because it most often won’t be obvious from the impact. It’s hard to make a splash on a production system maintained by 30 other people, but you can usually make things better, but it won’t always be obvious.
- Comment sections here are filled with stories of people forced to use LLMs. You are clearly not even paying attention.
Sadly, I’m not wealthy enough to afford to reset like that, I’ll never be able to retire.