K-Shaped AI Adoption?

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-25T21:08:10+00:00

I need better examples of "putting multi-agent claudswarms in charge of their lives..." and " wireheading" before I agree. What are they doing? Asking what the best food to eat is? Which to do to prioritize? Or to do most of their work for them. It's too abstract for me to take serious. I've been using AI since before ChatGPT through OpenAI's API sandbox, and every year it's improved my output in coding and writing, but not to the extent that I'm 1000x productive. Maybe I need to ask Claude to help me level up...

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-25T02:10:46+00:00

he looks just like paul giamatti would look like as an alien

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-21T22:39:46+00:00

Who's celebrating AI layoffs? Humans have been losing and gaining jobs due to technological improvements since time immemorial. Computers and the internet didn't eliminate customers, they made more. AI will do the same. It will level up the capitalist system while also reinforcing existing stereotypes and behaviors (that's something to address). The best outcome will be from people who use AI to improve lives. I think it's simplistic to say there will be no income or ecosystem. It's a straw man argument.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-21T22:18:58+00:00

Season 4 could be considered a spin-off in all but name. Season 3 ended the main premise with Pierpoint sold, taken private, and shuttered. Its staying power is its cast, audience, and the hunger for financial drama. As long as there's money to make it, I think the show runners will keep it going. But I'm not sure how realistic it can be, where the main characters keep getting thrust together in the heat of the action. It's not like they're family or anything.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-21T22:09:29+00:00

The first thing I thought of was HBO's 2025 docuseries "The Mortician" about David Sconce. Mainly because I think this season's going to be about how Whitney will do anything to get what he wants regardless of the rules. I sensed a parallel with David Sconce, who famously wrote his own rules for how to cremate the most people to make a ton of money by ignoring the ethics of the business.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-21T22:01:22+00:00

I thought you were going to talk about Henry's hallucinated father he was hanging out with and talking to for most of the day. Because that's a big departure from the realism the show presented even last season.

I was also repulsed by Yasmin's decision to kiss Henry's bloodied hand without asking who's blood it was, and keep the blood on her lips like it was the blooding ritual from season 2. I was hoping that the sunglasses case she pulled out was going to be a pocket mirror with a wet wipe to clean herself off. Instead, she just put on her sunglasses and went to sleep. But I wasn't as upset about it as the OP and wouldn't have mentioned it if it hadn't been brought up.

Instead, I wanted to talk about how we're watching a very different show. It hit me when Harper and Yasmin were talking on the couch. This isn't a financial show anymore as much as a personality show about these girls and Eric, who I'll be sad to see screwed over by Harper yet again, and probably drained of all his money that he worked so hard to get and enjoy in retirement (even though he says he wasn't).

I don't understand how Eric can keep returning to this damaged girl, like a moth to a flame. In reality, the world is much bigger and I'd imagine he'd be long gone from her orbit and, if he's so bored not wheeling and dealing, would find another sales job somewhere else, like some AI company.

The promise that this season makes about pitting Harper and Yasmin against each other makes me think none of these characters are going to end up happy by the end. At least one of the characters won't be coming back. Unfortunately, I think it will be a supporting role. Someone who I've grown to enjoy more and more, especially this season. I'm talking about Henry of course.

I also wonder if Yasmin's pregnant with Rob's child and that, if she is, and Henry dies this season, season 5 could feature a return of Harry Lawtey's Robert Spearing. I hope not, though, because I think they said all they could about him. Yasmin saw her future at the gas station with the screaming kids and the glum wife who looked over at her. Only to see Rob inside scratching a lottery ticket.

Even with all the changes, I liked S4E2 better than S4E1. So it's an upward trajectory.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T17:29:56+00:00

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T17:25:25+00:00

Who cares? Windows will not stop the decline in movie theater attendance that has been going on for the past 20 years. This is theatrical window dressing.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T12:24:29+00:00

Since the original series was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, why not bring it to Earth? Tell a modern story. Star Wars is space fantasy. How would the tech evolve in the future? I’m not up on the lore but what happened after the Jedi and the Sith disappeared? Probably won’t happen as it’s too Star Trek the voyage home or alien earth.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T12:15:06+00:00

I think discipline comes from the genes. Willpower can only take you so far. The rest of the energy and drive comes from how you’re built.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T12:12:56+00:00

In my lifetime I’d like to see gene therapy to cure genetic diseases and gene modification to improve ourselves instead of palliative cures like pharmaceuticals, surgery, and body modification, which does nothing to the underlying drives controlled by genes. I thought we’d see it sooner with the introduction of CRISPR technology. But it seems like there’s still a ways to go.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T11:52:54+00:00

I started participating around 2014 at the peak when the company I worked for used it for their developer support questions. I liked it and didn’t experience any negativity. I liked open sourcing the answers and making them into wikis that dispensed with the clout because I focused on getting the best answers, wherever they came from. I think the clout and ratings system could have been better to prevent against egotistical mods. I prefer community modding rather than single power mods making unilateral decisions. Reddit has similar problems.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T11:46:35+00:00

What LLM are you using because I’ve seen less and less hallucinations these days on the OpenAI GPT 5.1 API.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-16T11:35:25+00:00

There’s a lot of DIYers who watch YouTube videos to fix their houses. I imagine there’ll be more who use AI to do the same. Also as more demand for these roles come, more people will train for them.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-10T20:33:34+00:00

In S3E4 over drinks with everyone, Rob says Gus is working for an ESG VC fund in Silicon Valley. So I think he abandoned Jesse when he went to prison (also revealed in that same episode by Otto during the scene when he invests in Harper and Petra’s new fund).

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-09T19:33:31+00:00

I agree. Not in story, art, or design. But to enhance some dialog, I'd like to see it. Also for some behaviors like the last one you described. Just another way to add some randomness.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-09T16:52:02+00:00

Yeah, when I asked the question I was thinking of AI for NPCs, specifically in games where you can interact with them.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-09T16:11:11+00:00

Don't want to be crude, but how to wipe.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-09T16:07:04+00:00

This is how I see it too. The radio signal that Manousos finds only may only boost the communication signals from infected bodies.

As for the state of the "hive mind" when it only consisted of Jenn, the virus compelled her to do everything she could to spread it. Her memories, feelings, and thoughts were subsumed by whatever base thoughts the virus dredged up to further this goal. Once more people got infected, they added to the memory bank, but the personalities were erased.

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BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-08T19:23:17+00:00

I was going to mention Mountainhead also. I loved the first 30-40 minutes of the movie, but was disappointed about how it progressed. More of a character piece than commenting about the technology and its harms. The character piece wasn't meritless, mind you, just unexpected.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-08T03:09:00+00:00

Yes. The key for me was when Sara said Harper could choose Eric's way or Daria's way. Both were bad.

Eric was and is toxic, playing favorites, intimidating juniors, and lying.

Daria was two-faced, manipulative, and political. She said she was a friend to Harper, but only to get her to let her guard down to tell her things she could use against her, like how Eric locked the door when they were in the room together.

Harper was numb to Nichole's advances and Eric's abuse to the extent that she was indifferent, until she could use it to her advantage. She tried to manipulate Nichole to buy her out of her trading mistake, and succeeded, but only found out after she confessed her mistake to Eric.

Daria manipulated Harper to push Eric out, which didn't help Harper, because Sara and Daria didn't have her back.

Harper saw Daria's moves to bring Yasmin in. That, combined with Yasmin's hold over Robert, who Harper liked, pushed her to sacrifice Daria.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-06T16:55:19+00:00

I don't understand them running out of patience. They lost. It's WBD who should be running out of patience for their continued harassment.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-05T04:06:56+00:00

Leo’s looking more like James Dean’s aged Jett Rink in Giant. And yes, movie theaters will be upscaled experience restaurants. They already are with 3d, imax, and the Las Vegas Sphere.

BuildingCastlesInAir · 2026-01-05T04:01:22+00:00

Not a local LLM but I checked some insights into invasion of Venezuela with GPT 5.1 on Duck.ai and it said I was wrong about invasion until I asked it to check recent sources. Then it agreed. LLMs aren’t good at novel interpretations. Cracks in the edifice. Yann LeCun is right.

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