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I like how they carry posters from Matrix, Terminator, etc. They know the difference between fantasy and real life, right?

Just because there are fantastical elements to these stories doesn't mean their themes can't be poignant examinations of where the real world is headed.

We're not in a giant simulation, but technology is causing people to lose contact with reality, and our lives increasingly become about keeping a giant "machine" running.

We may not have a SkyNet in charge of our nuclear missiles, but should we not be concerned about AI making life-and-death decisions in war?


Can you use known cultural elements to get your message across. That's not a new concept

Or they are promoting a language where the lower viscera speak to lower viscera. A zombie-like contagion in which the spreading is through suggestive imagery.

Pornographic enrollment: images towards lower excitement, to enlarge the number of the lowerly excited.


Are you familiar with the concept of rhetoric? This is something similar.

Our machines are now more intelligent than most humans, which would have qualified as "fantasy" as recently as 3 years ago. Clearly some people will only give up on this flawed reasoning exactly when the robot boot is pressed against their throat lmao.

I’m working on an open source platform similar to Grok Bot: https://github.com/regnull/openbot

Think of it as a synthesis of AI bots and actor model. For now I have a self hosted version where you can run a bunch of bots talking to each other.


Great idea, but buggy. My lecture started mid-sentence and ended abruptly (Kalman filter). Looking forward to when you guys get it working well. Also, I'm curious if the lecture description language is public.


Thank you very much! That’s strange, we’ll look into it. Really appreciate you reporting it.

The lecture description language isn’t public at the moment. It’s a core part of the technology we’re building the company around.

Also, if you’d like, you can share the video as a public link by clicking the share button!


You can also use GPS as time source


How is it different from smashing your phone on the floor and destroying it when asked to unlock? Just because it's a code that wipes it makes no difference. I'm not saying the agents were right to ask for it, but it seems like if you feel that your rights are violated you should refuse to unlock the phone, not destroy the content in front of them.


The source for this is "I've heard it from some guy". Before we freak out, perhaps make sure it's actually happening?


This is quite a reasonable take.


"This is an app the land thieves of the Zionist entity force Palestinians to install on their phones as part of their illegal apartheid permit system."

The article seems to be a little one-sided, perhaps?


It's either terrible planning or the most persuasive presentation they’ve ever given.


The title reads "too little, too late" to me.


If you don't have a full time job for a year, why don't you start a software business on your own? It's hard to succeed, but, successful or now, you will have something to show people and something that you are passionate to talk about. It will give you a new way to connect to people, and quite likely will help you to get hired. And who knows, maybe you will succeed.


100% this. Interviewing isn't something that can compound. Striking out from company after company doesn't leave behind a trail of real work and real lessons. Starting a business is tough but it really does teach skills that are hard to find any other way (about sales, recruiting, management, etc). After a certain point, it's wiser to give up on getting hired, and just hire yourself and build something.


Creating a business something that sounds soooo far fetched. It is such a tail event for me that I never even considered. How do you even begin? You just start calling people if they want your product?


Business is pretty simple actually: you begin by finding the market, then you proceed with getting a thing to sell on the market, then you sell you thing at the market. Think about it in simple terms: to start a business of selling vegetables – acquire vegetables, find a marketplace nearby, sit there and sell your vegetables. All businesses really are just increasingly sophisticated versions of this; source something of value, reach the customer, make money.


> When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled.

I don't want to be that guy, but the title is misleading. The number of users completing the form doubled.


No, it's actually people. FTA: 'My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem. To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website...'

Ie customers of the utility company were completing the form, not random users from the internet.


FTA? Free Trade Agreement?


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