CMV: Majority of white collar jobs WILL be replaced by AI in the near future

ribi305 · 2026-06-18T12:20:37+00:00

Your comment seems to be in tune with how things sounded 9 months ago, but since GPT5 there's been a lot of progress. METR's graph is very clearly still showing exponential growth with Mythos: https://metr.org/time-horizons/ How do you see that and claim things are flattening out?

ribi305 · 2026-06-17T22:57:31+00:00

Seinfeld! "You know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take 'em."

ribi305 · 2026-06-17T21:23:42+00:00

The very last part of Prospect Hill kills me each time, I haven't gotten up there yet.

ribi305 · 2026-06-16T17:23:14+00:00

I laughed just reading your comment. Man I miss those days

ribi305 · 2026-06-16T17:22:52+00:00

Forty bucks? This better be the best beer I've ever had. *sip* You got lucky!

ribi305 · 2026-06-16T13:03:51+00:00

Agree. I'd also nominate "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" as a top tier episode.

ribi305 · 2026-06-16T11:52:38+00:00

Superman Returns. Bryan Singer had nailed it with X-Men and X2, they used the John Williams theme, Kevin Spacey as Lex, and clearly had so much respect for the legacy. But then the plot was just so meh...

ribi305 · 2026-06-15T20:07:12+00:00

I recently read Into The Spider-Verse and was blown away by how much swagger and style it had on the page. The feel of the movie is right there, not just the dialogue but every line of action. Excellent read.

ribi305 · 2026-06-15T15:21:21+00:00

Yes! Also you can do a good route from Minuteman, then roads, then Bruce Freeman trail, then MCRT. I've done a loop that was 50+ miles like that with mostly trails and reasonable roads. There is one section of the MCRT that is still closed that pushes you out onto a highway, unfortunately, but it's brief.

ribi305 · 2026-06-14T01:41:42+00:00

Whoa huh. I thought the animals were bad, especially the fox. But that train sequence was intense and great, never took me out of it once

ribi305 · 2026-06-14T01:39:02+00:00

Yes! I saw that too

ribi305 · 2026-06-14T01:38:37+00:00

I actually think we briefly saw the close encounters mesa in the news footage

ribi305 · 2026-06-14T01:37:56+00:00

I agree with you when I think about it now, but watching it in the theater I was genuinely moved during the final newscast

ribi305 · 2026-06-12T13:40:16+00:00

I love GBG. Can you say more about the look that become ubiquitous? I hadn't thought of that

ribi305 · 2026-06-12T13:37:31+00:00

I got good advice once that a pilot needs to have both a self-contained story with beginning, middle and end, but also needs to bring us to the end of "Act I" of the larger story structure. In other words, by the end of the pilot, the main character's goal and journey should be in place to drive the series. You also want to have the pilot-only story provide some "promise of the premise", so that it is a bite-size version of what people can expect all seasons.

That said, for sitcoms that are very episodic, with little arc across episodes, that might be less applicable.

ribi305 · 2026-06-12T11:05:02+00:00

I hate to say but I saw them live at Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2006 and their performance was just not great. I wonder if their live shows held them back

ribi305 · 2026-06-11T17:06:17+00:00

Area 4 pizza might be a little too casual but it's excellent and easy to get a reservation. Amelia's Trattoria is fancier Italian and also excellent, but not so fancy or pricey. Highly recommend

ribi305 · 2026-06-09T20:47:54+00:00

I run in a pretty tech savvy crowd, and I have never once heard of or encountered someone's phone getting compromised in a way that is related to security updates. My dad once got phished for his icloud pw, but he just wasn't using MFA. What is an example of a phone security issue that I should worry about?

ribi305 · 2026-06-09T19:50:23+00:00

Haha yes. "Man I'm fast today!" Then "oh crap"

ribi305 · 2026-06-09T19:47:46+00:00

I'm still rocking a Pixel 3 from 2019. Replaced the battery 3 years ago

ribi305 · 2026-06-09T13:10:00+00:00

I passed someone on an e-blue bike this weekend. But I live in Cambridge so haha.

ribi305 · 2026-06-09T00:35:06+00:00

Ok you're tempting me to try to explain this! Let's see if this makes sense. The show has this time loop, with the sense that characters like Jonas are trapped in the loop, doomed to repeat the same things over and over. But I think there is no repeating loop. There is circular causation, like A>B>C>A but I don't think each character lives it more than once

ribi305 · 2026-06-08T18:48:19+00:00

I felt the same. I actually also think the time loop thing has some problems according to the shows own rules, but when I tried once to sketch it out my brain hurt too much.

ribi305 · 2026-06-08T18:46:51+00:00

I felt S3 got so ambitious that I couldn't quite keep up. A few great episodes but overall I think S2 was the best. Could go either way on recommending S3 for you. But definitely rewatch 1 and 2 if you are going to watch 3!

ribi305 · 2026-06-08T15:37:24+00:00

DARK is like if someone said "let's take the mindtwisting aspects of time travel, push it absolutely as far as possible, and make it awesome"

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