I used to do email/browsing/games on 8MB of RAM. Upgraded to 24MB and was able to print a poster sized photo that I scanned with a handheld scanner.

I have 2000x as much RAM now, about 3000x more CPU, but hard to say what really changed for so much increase.

Yeah, full motion video is now more trivial. Gaming graphics certainly improved but not 1000x more fun.

I probably have more computing power today in my room than medium sized universities had back in the day.

The (US) Civil War seemed like distant history in school. But I’ve come to realize there are a lot of people that still seem to live with the prejudice from those times.

The war ended but the problems never went away. Can’t help but wonder if Reconciliation was such a good idea. One half the country might be quite happy not dealing with the other.

I also used to not understand how Protestants and Catholics could fight (Ireland). Almost seems odd both being Christian. Of course, I was extremely blind to the religious divides long existing here too.

If I were in a fine China shop, I would be mindful of the location of the bull running amok.

Industrialization allowed people to shift human labor from agriculture to factories and such.

Seems like intellectual labor became more possible as people looked beyond subsistence but also more valuable since a greater population could drive demand for more than just subsistence related activities.

If both aren’t done by many humans, what’s left? Sports training and massage therapy? Sports training might not even be safe…

OTOH, my current lifestyle is already weird if I think about it. Developing software for a machine that I cannot make myself, whose raw materials I cannot obtain, using energy I cannot produce on my own — somehow entitles me to get a particular amount of goods and services from others including food, healthcare, entertainment, landscaping, and manufactured goods.

We live in interesting times…

AI guardrails can’t even dream of that!

Imagine if it was just the absence of “I’m evil” in the payload.

ld.so

Yeah — loose the phone and it’s pretty much game over.

Rotate new features across 0.01% of the user base to conscript them into being QAs.

Telemetry probably even means the user doesn’t have to submit a report…

Worse, this is really human beings trying to pretend that their AI is AGI.

Sure, while not exactly negligible, sure could beat hundreds of hours spent filming, audio editing, and all the other post-production work that would produce an amateur work.

Even as a pedestrian, I hate crossing a small road using crosswalks at a 4 way stop.

More than once, I’ve been nearly run over — even by vehicles that came to a complete stop.

Others were too distracted and plowed nonstop going 40+mph through the 4way stop.

I actually prefer to cross in the middle of the road on my own terms.