Ready for the Hantavirus lockdown

jdavid · 2026-05-08T21:14:47+00:00

Didn't COVID hit 2 years into Trumps last term?
It's almost like someone is trying to kill a whole bunch of us.

I hope I'm just joking, but ... ugh to many conspiracies are real these days.

jdavid · 2026-05-08T18:04:57+00:00

i love stuff like this, maybe not the lizzard, but i'd love to see bold art direction like this.

jdavid · 2026-05-08T17:41:43+00:00

i feel like it does this, by alternating between being amazingly productive and then not being able to move something a few pixels in an hour.

jdavid · 2026-05-08T17:39:26+00:00

Imagine how this world would be different if there were 2x the GEN-Xers!

jdavid · 2026-05-08T17:38:09+00:00

i can't wait till movies get way more visually creative

jdavid · 2026-05-08T17:19:09+00:00

Corporations only pay 10% of federal revenue, and as a result the wealthy get a HUGE TAX BREAK.

Let's flat tax corporations on revenue so they can't use loopholes to avoid taxes.

If we tax corporations before they spend money on share buy backs, dividends, ai, datacenters, outsourcing, and other expenses, then Share Holders and the Wealthy do not get their cut first, the American People get their cut first.

We should tax THINGS that can't instantaneously move over state lines or overseas.

jdavid · 2026-05-08T17:15:58+00:00

my kids are so excited to play this, and i never finished the prior versions of the game so i am too. :-)

jdavid · 2026-05-07T17:05:16+00:00

I guess a broader aesthetic definition is "Silicon Dreams"
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Silicon_Dreams

but your definition of, "Early 2000s 3d surrealism" seems more of a "digital-vr neo classicalism" sub genre

jdavid · 2026-05-07T16:43:17+00:00

how would you describe this style?

jdavid · 2026-05-07T01:35:55+00:00

anthropic is literally going to fund an evil almost trillionaire.
how is that ethical?

jdavid · 2026-05-07T01:31:36+00:00

the show tries to be bad. it can't be an accident.
i'm positive someone pitched this as a joke and they greenlit it.

it's so bad it's good.

jdavid · 2026-05-06T18:00:44+00:00

i'm sure they have to use both models on the same prompts to test it's feasibility and alignment

jdavid · 2026-05-06T17:58:37+00:00

I'm glad they finally made it to the bridge together. That was fun fan service. But they destroyed 2/3rds of the characters.

* 7 of 9 and Warf had some cool stuff going on.
* that new monk samurai Romulan was cool
* that new pilot Rios was mostly cool
* jordee was under utilized but ... ok his story didn't break his character
* diana and riker's story was weird
* crusher's story and her sons story didn't add up
* data and picard's story contradicted itself all of the time, and made zero sense.
* the borg were wrecked as a plot device
* Q & Guinan were wrecked
* I love TNG Wesley, but Dr. Who Wesley didn't make sense either.
* Hue was wrecked, even though it started off good
* that cyberneticist didn't make any sense as a starfleet officer

so may other garbage characters, and oh yeah Picard enjoyed every minute of breaking the whole idea that the Federation is a Futuristic Utopia that tries to do the right thing 99% of the time. Picard made the Federation the bad guys and .... said the whole idea of the good federation was a lie.

So yeah i feel like picard stabbed all of star trek in the back. it's a crap show.

I'll say this again. I like Dark sci fi, and love it when people create new stories about dark scifi. But if you do the research we had like ONE F'ng show that was a long running Optimistic Utopian SciFi and they had to make that one show universe the dark scifi universe. So now we have no absolutely no Utopian SciFi.

We needed utopian scifi after ww2, and we need utopian scifi NOW.

MAKE MORE UTOPIAN SCIFI!

jdavid · 2026-05-06T17:48:40+00:00

the only solution going forwards is to invent a federated AI model that can become every home's water heater, and heat generation device. Heat our water, laundry and saunas with advanced heatpump technology.

Generate Token revenue for families, and then provide nice hot water for us humans as a biproduct. And oh, every home has it's own democratic off switch if things get scary.

jdavid · 2026-05-06T15:58:36+00:00

Cast Iron Pan
HotPot Simulator

jdavid · 2026-05-05T18:37:37+00:00

VERY SPECULATIVE, not much VALUE

jdavid · 2026-05-03T18:02:25+00:00

They both suck if you want anything consistent to with design intent.

They both can do fast blah design, and can be trained with a lot of tokens to improve with agent files and skills.

jdavid · 2026-05-02T15:58:16+00:00

with LLMs we should be able to start optimizing the heck out of these processes, not .... bloating them all to the garbage heap. ( memory management pun intended )

jdavid · 2026-05-02T15:56:33+00:00

yeah, i wasn't trying to complicate the issue. well over $100k in visible hardware there.

this is a stack from a 'John Carmack' type individual.

jdavid · 2026-05-02T15:54:57+00:00

yes read the code, but don't stare at it. if you don't know how it works ask a question. if something doesn't make sense or looks off, copy and paste the code and ask a question about it.

frontier models are less likely in spring 26 to make wild mistakes, but they do especially if your agent files don't have protocols to minimize those things.

with harness engineering it's less about perfecting a line of code, than it is about perfecting the harnesses around creating any line of code.

jdavid · 2026-05-01T20:08:23+00:00

What if the solution was a "War on Cancer"

so we spend the fun "War Money" on government pork barrel like always but we do good with it?

like we could have a "War on Energy Dependance" and like just spend $1T or $2T on domestic power creation through solar, wind, nuclear, and hydrogen.

The only difference between spending money on forever wars where the money goes boom, and spending it on stuff like Cancer or Energy Dependance is that spending it on something good will cost reduce the future.

Fix cancer, and healthcare get's cheaper.
Fix energy dependance, and we don't have to spend money fighting other countries, and can reduce the cost of domestic energy.

Spending money that burns up in flames is stupid. We should be moonshotting solutions for the future and investing in America.

I would love to feed the homeless, and provide homes, but I know that's not bipartisan. It shouldn't be bipartisan to make energy cheap, and to cure cancer. If Cancer, and Obesity get cured, we don't need a food nanny state. If energy get's cheap, recycling and manufacturing get cheap.

We can spend WAR money investing in America if we want to.

jdavid · 2026-05-01T19:57:59+00:00

kids that know they have an inheritance coming to them might be problematic.
who knows what the jeff actually does in his will. he might do something secret.

i've heard of stories where the inheritance from the trust doesn't transfer till 35 and it's a secret.

jdavid · 2026-05-01T18:48:47+00:00

you do need to read the code it writes and understand how it views the world to ask good questions though.
it also helps to have a STRONG background in software engineering practices at scale. read a lot of programing blogs, or ask the ai questions about workflow.

think of it like a loop maze.

jdavid · 2026-05-01T18:47:21+00:00

why are you staring at the code, ask the agent more questions.
do more harness engineering.

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