Gorgeous art style.

Bizarre machinima made with JWE is underrated imo.

Anti-AI sentiment is also uniquely intense in the US for some understandable and interesting reasons. Friends overseas say the attitudes there are completely different. Turns out effective regulation (or at least a govt seeming on top of things) changes attitudes significantly.

What's extra sad about this is the people who made and even approved the ad probably didn't know about this draconian and illegal-in-many-places policy. Somebody did, but can you imagine the look you'd get straightening out the marketing team on that one?

"Well, you see, Andrew can't really..."

Wow, this is gorgeous!

I'm about 75pp from the end...

Same. It didn't seem possible. But now everything suddenly makes sense...

Just. Wow. Was mentioning to a friend today that it's long been understood that Amazon had all the wrong people in leadership (based on years of poor results, grapevine, etc) but... I did not understand the extent...

The idea of this makes me extremely happy!

Since it's a long talk that is mostly aimed at folks unfamiliar with AI... tldr asking whether a chatbot is capable of compassion is maybe better asking if its interface can accurately access the collective compassion of the people who created its training data. As one kind of question.

I think this is on the right track. I was poking at it a bit in this talk I gave last month at my Buddhist temple. Would be v curious what you think.

I do think we should understand talking to an LLM as sailing in a 3072 dimensional sea of collective unconscious.

youtu.be/RISa8OUxBDs?...

In the west this word "meditation" is used like it means one thing, when it was an entire field in the ancient world, birthed entire schools of Buddhism... and might not be the right word anyway? Contemplation, visualization -- it's a field, not an action. Just to affirm what you're saying.

We kept expecting enforcement to hit them and it just never did. Everyone knew open chat for kids could get you this growth. But it would come with pedophiles. So no one did it, until Roblox, and the govt presumably saw the $ and decided to look the other way. Omelas.

Roblox is... special this way. In the kids mmos that preceded its meteoric rise, enormous precautions were taken to limit open chat -- bc COPPA was actually being enforced. Kids-MMO world squinted at roblox when they turned on open chat for minors, said "this'll be good" 🍿 and... nothing happened.

There should be a formal study on whether Cheetara or Robin Hood (Disney) created more furries. I suspect the latter but only SCIENCE can say for sure.

I'm sure not a coincidence with Halloween coming up and whatnot, but I just started doing foam armor for the kids this year and was just thinking it could make a great after-school program!

ah, clearly @polarisgamedesign.com 's fault - I am pleased.

bsky.app/profile/pola...

Del Toro's actual statement when asked about this: "Well, I was raised Catholic, and a lot of those crucifixions in Mexico have the loin cloth a little too low!" 👨‍🍳🤌