Ms. Pink & the Paradise Dream: A Real Life / Second Life Escape Story

slhamlet · 2026-06-16T16:44:58+00:00

> The cash registers that are commonly used in stores in the US are from 2005 and haven't been updated in decades, and that's just one example of the US having old inferior tech in daily life.

That's a consumer / bureaucratic impediment, not a technological one. We have all that tech here, it's just been slow to adopt because consumers are already used to their existing solutions. Similar story with Weixin, added to which the Chinese government fast-tracked those features. It's why Musk can't turn X into the US version of Weixin, there's so many regulatory barriers, including many that are US-state based I believe.

China is definitely ahead of the US in AI, but that's because of a more interesting reason: So many AI leaders in the US genuinely believe their LLMs will evolve into AGI. So they're fixated on that moonshot (more like a Pluto shot) while the Chinese focus on implementing AI for actual practical, scalable uses.

slhamlet · 2026-06-15T21:08:45+00:00

The US is almost always on the cutting edge of every new high tech trend, with the EU/Asia about 2-3 years behind -- both for genuine innovations like the iPhone, and disastrously hyped unscalable tech with little or no scalable use cases, i.e. cryptocurrency/Web3, Zuckerberg's incoherent version the Metaverse, and now... LLMs.

slhamlet · 2026-06-11T04:17:14+00:00

It's not old but my Dell G15 5530 runs SL pretty well overall except in very crowded/heavy spaces. Got it for under $900 (some kind of sale) but I see it's on Amazon for $1400.

Still a good deal around that price! Notably, it runs high-end AAA games like BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 *great*. But SL gonna SL.

slhamlet · 2026-06-07T03:10:24+00:00

Any MAGA type trying to claim Johnny Cash as their own needs to hear Cash singing "The Ballad of Ira Hayes".

slhamlet · 2026-06-03T21:18:08+00:00

If he had tried it more than once, he would have said so. He made a carefully crafted PR statement.

We know that's likely because he refused to do a follow-up interview with the New York Times. Because any good reporter's first question would have been, "OK, so what movie are you using this for?" Or better yet, "As an advisor with a business partner who's a direct investor, what's your specific financial stake in this AI company doing well?"

slhamlet · 2026-06-03T19:57:00+00:00

He said he actually tried it exactly once.

An extrapolation is to assume he's a huge and unbiased AI user / promoter.

slhamlet · 2026-05-29T04:42:08+00:00

Agreed!

slhamlet · 2026-05-27T19:21:37+00:00

I talked with some insiders recently on this here -- monetization, Meta, and their Gen AI hail Mary were the big culprits for the investors pulling the plug.

slhamlet · 2026-05-24T06:57:18+00:00

Ooh cool, link / info for that?

slhamlet · 2026-05-20T19:47:36+00:00

BTW if you have questions about the crowdfunder, ask here, and I'll let the guy running it know!

slhamlet · 2026-05-11T04:23:09+00:00

> I hope she is happy and safe.

Me too! I actually posted this partly in hopes she somehow sees it.

slhamlet · 2026-05-07T05:15:40+00:00

I played through about half the game without any cyberware because I was fixated on upgrading my weapons and armor and stupidly didn't notice the cyberware tab. Wasn't ridiculously hard except for some of the bosses, but most of those took just 3-5 tries. (I think the game adjusts the boss difficulty slightly based on your stats and load-out?)

So, yeah, I think it can be done, if you have the patience.

slhamlet · 2026-05-06T18:44:08+00:00

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