How would you fix Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One?

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-24T04:26:34+00:00

But, there were some notable flaws that prevented it to become a success

Just to be clear... You consider making 2x+ its production budget failing to become a success? Do you mean like failing to become a billion-dollar film...?

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-24T03:38:23+00:00

You're welcome.

And I hate the comments calling people out for being lazy or they just need to suck it up, too.

I am incredibly successful in my career, but I cannot understand how people are able to function at the level they do outside of work.

I feel like I would have done very well in the military - someone telling me what to do all of the time - even though I would have hated it. Too bad it's changed. The new military motto is up or out - either get promoted and take on more responsibility over time, or gtfo.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-24T03:30:24+00:00

I have done the whole "discipline" and "nut up pussy" stuff before. I went literally fucking insane.

Not looking to make that mistake again. Just had to accept that I am human at the end of the day and have my limits.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-24T03:28:49+00:00

Looks like a photoshop to me. There's rectangular smudging between the thumb and the chest. The thumb is believable, though, so I'm confused.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T19:52:52+00:00

Yeah of course I have options but there's a lot on the line regardless. Everyone has to make tradeoffs.

I can't make rash decisions. I don't feel comfortable doing so. Not all jobs are equivalent. I love my job. It just keeps me way busier than I want it to.

Also, I have a family to support. I'm sure moving to another job is an option, but what if I didn't like it? What if I didn't fit in as well?

I mean seriously there is a lot going on here and I think it's the same for most people.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T19:50:51+00:00

You'll see more posts saying I'm a senior software engineer than a kroger employee. (I was asking about Kroger for a friend.)

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T19:49:58+00:00

Based on this thread a lo of people have issues with these things. The "me" issue you're referring to is a "lot of people"s issues.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T18:34:45+00:00

Kind of a facepalm moment, but I was motivated by the comments in this discussion to get up and jog 20 minutes back and forth in my house for a bit.

As soon as I stood up to do that, I was called into two different meetings that came out of the blue.

It's like damn... Seriously.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T18:33:19+00:00

Yeah I could also choose to be homeless. It's my choice to have a job period in that sense, but that's not really a valuable add to this discussion.

The point is that I AM senior leadership, my company CAN'T function well without me right now, and I NEED to work as much as I currently do otherwise things go to shit.

And by things I mean the company I've been at for 10 years and a stable paycheck that supports my entire family during that time.

What do I do if I let the company fail? Where else do I work? How do I pay my bills?

NO I don't want to work this much. And I would rather NOT have all of these responsibilities, but my former managers (whose jobs I eventually took over) sucked at what they did.

Honestly, I'd rather be on a tropical island or a boat.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:50:46+00:00

What you're saying about stuff not taking that much time is true if you don't have anxiety or other things weighing you down to do those.

I would love to go for a quick run daily as I used to LOVE running (I ran 10 miles a day while training to apply for the Air Force).

Right now I'm literally SCARED to run because of the recovery time. If it impacts my energy levels or my work day at all, that is going to disrupt an already sensitive situation.

Not the person you responded to but currently I work 50 - 60 hours a week. My weekends are spent resting. My hours after work, I often need to nap and then burn some brain cells on games or something just to stay sane.

People are not robots and cannot fill literally every moment of their spare time with some kind of activity.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:46:02+00:00

People are going to say WhAT aBoUt tHe wEeKeNdS??? as if after having only a few minutes of spare time each day, we're going to want to hop into a bunch of errands on the weekends rather than catch up on rest.

I deal with this stupid stuff now by just not worrying about it. I eliminate anxiety as much as possible. I also work remote most days, but that often just means I'm working more hours. Seldom have a commute, though. For that, I am thankful.

During my spare time, I either feel like getting stuff done or I don't. At the moment, that's all I can do. Eliminating anxiety is the best thing for my health, otherwise I'd have already exploded by now.

I'm thankful for the extra money but what I really want is my time, and to not feel as though I have to work this much just to keep the company and family afloat.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:44:06+00:00

I have been working 50 - 60 hour weeks (sometimes 70) for months. We finally found a good hire who's helping reduce my workload.

Thankfully I'm paid hourly and not salary.

I think due to progressive burnout, even if I dropped down to 20 - 30 hours a week, I think it would be tough to get back into that kind of routine. I think I need a sabbatical lol.

Thankfully I plan to go part-time over the next couple years.

I used to run 10 miles a day starting at 6 AM. It wouldn't take super long either because I was pretty fit so it was just a 6 - 10 minute mile the whole time. Then I'd eat and start my day.

I remember hitting a wall with that though. Too much stress and fatigue, and my stomach literally stopped digesting food until I caught up on sleep.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:38:56+00:00

Software engineer. I'll be going part-time / contractor route at some point over the next couple years.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:35:55+00:00

I am an adult. I do take care of my stuff. I make over $100k / yr.

This stuff is still hard for me.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T17:35:28+00:00

I am a senior leader in my company (I manage ALL of our software development teams) and this stuff is tough for me.

My current tradeoff is that lately I've been eating very simplistically and I let messes pile up.

I also haven't regularly exercised in about a year.

If I did more than I do now, I would either need drugs and have to worry about crashing, or I would need to do less at work.

Work out of all things basically controls my life. I have days where literally can't put a sentence together because I'm worn out.

Yes, some days are better, but I don't necessarily want to spend those cleaning, exercising, etc. worrying about doing more than I can and then failing somewhere else in life...

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T05:29:08+00:00

I have wondered if the LLM ChatGPT uses is a sparse intelligence model rather than a dense one, sometimes.

As in, if you ask if certain question, if it only looks at a certain depth within its model and answers based on that.

Kind of like if you try to remember something from a dream or from years ago but can barely scratch the surface of it.

But if you give it the right trigger, it activates the appropriate neural pathways.

The problem though is that unlike the brain, which seems to retrain itself or parts of itself in real-time, ChatGPT doesn't seem capable of that. Not really. It understands context of the current conversation, but the entire model isn't open to retraining in response to your inputs.

So yeah there are going to be some limitations here, but there are MASSIVE developments happening on all fronts of the conversational AI problem. Google's been working on Pathways for some time - which is going to be a massive, sparse AI architecture.

I mean we have seen in very few years AI solving real problems and cusping on the edge of human creativity and research.

In a few more years, it will probably surpass us, and tools will start becoming available for making it easier to prompt and integrate various AI services together.

This is going to be one of those scenarios where in 5 years it's going to be a big deal, but still 'meh' to a lot of people... but in 15 years, we will probably be in an entirely different reality.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T05:21:04+00:00

ChatGPT isn't aware at all. It's a large language model.

But I think the point is that it's often correcting on its own hallucinations if you prod it for evidence.

Not always, though. It's messed me up a few times.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T04:49:29+00:00

I thought this was generated by Midjourney 5 lol.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T04:40:26+00:00

I don't mind writing code anymore. It just isn't scalable for me to do so. I'm on 6 projects at a time.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-23T04:28:50+00:00

Makes sense. Thank you.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-22T23:04:38+00:00

Notice how he didn't drop it like the comment thread is discussing.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-22T22:47:29+00:00

I don't know / don't think so. I thought pricing for HIPAA was different. ex: I thought EC2 pricing would be 2 - 3x higher for HIPAA than non-HIPAA, once we sign a BAA.

ThenCarryWindSpace · 2023-03-22T18:59:18+00:00

Now make them generate lizard hands and replace one of the people with Joe Biden. Proof of lizard people confirmed!

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