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I am probably working on Hubski.

Send me a PM or post with the tag #bugski if you think something is broken.

I filter #thebeatles.

I do not agree with everything that I post. I hope you don't either.

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mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Where’s the evidence of that asymptote?

mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Imagination is a novel synthesis of information. These things will eventually have eyes, ears, conversations, etc., and multiple models working as one. We will be out-imagined.

mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

This technology is in its infancy and it can make videos from short text prompts and you think its going to look anything like this in 10 years? You could make a strong case against YouTube in 1995. It's not going to make storyboards, it's going to churn out movies and commercials by the millions and they might be individualized for each viewer.

mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Very true. I'm not expressing an opinion. I'm not sure how I feel about this, and by its very nature, we cannot predict where this is going.

But it is interesting at the very least.

mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Now you see why Altman has been working hard at UBI. I don't think he'll solve that, but he knows we are fast approaching a world where humans won't be worth much on the job market. People are starting to understand.

TBH if you don't like capitalism, you should like this.

mk  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

The performance scales with compute. People are not ready for what is coming.

“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

This is where we are atm.

mk  ·  53 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

I don't think you believe I live in a bubble. Ann Arbor is definitely a bubble, and Biden is very safe here, but I have lots of relations outside of A2.

It's a second Trump term. That's not a crazy proposition or a narrative. The Dems thought Hillary was going to win. They think Biden will win again. I think they are wrong.

mk  ·  53 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

To you, but have you always voted for the winning candidate?

The hard truth is that people aren't nearly as freaked out about a second Trump term as we (or apparently the dems) expect. Biden looks like a strong wind will knock him over, and sounds worse. Trump will definitely want to debate Biden, and he will utterly destroy him if Biden does.

Also, no one I know likes Kamala. No one.

Biden has no clothes and the dems are pretending he does: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

mk  ·  53 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-dismayed-by-biden-trump-2024-rematch-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-01-25/

The disapproval goes deeper than that in the midwest. It’s also “I’m sick of the dems woke shit” and “he seems dementic”. That’s what friends and family tell me.

mk  ·  53 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

I think splitting will be a mess. Michigan, for example, won’t go one way.

mk  ·  53 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

All the polls are showing the same atm. The dislike of Biden is strong, nothing like four years ago. The dems simply are not listening.

mk  ·  54 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/politics/cnn-polls-trump-biden-michigan-georgia/index.html

Here in Michigan, this reflects what I am hearing and seeing. I don't think the left wants to believe what is happening.

If Pence did what Trump wanted to, different states would have declared to have different presidents. We were close.

mk  ·  54 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

If he can't run, he can't run. He won't be on the ballot here in MI if they say so.

mk  ·  54 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

Biden is going to lose to Trump and the US is going to split soon after.

I will blame Biden for this happening in slow motion in a most obvious manner.

My only hope is that the SCOTUS nerfs Trump due to insurrection.