Have you met non-serious people who long to be serious?

I am one of those people—modulo some possible definitional skew, of course, especially around to what degree someone who wishes to be different from how they are can be considered to wish for it coherently.

I know that right now I am not acting seriously almost at all, and I feel a strong dislike of this condition. Most of my consciously held desires are oriented in the direction of seriousness. A great deal of me longs to be serious in wholeness, but that desire is also being opposed by a combination of deep (but ego-dystonic) conditioning, some other murkier limitations that seem ambiguously biological and in any case have been very difficult to get at or pin down, and some major internal conflicts around which path to be serious about—whose resolution in turn is being obstructed by the rest of it.

Edited to add: to be clear, this isn't a statement about whether the article winds up actually being useful for helping people become more serious, and indeed I have a vague intuition that most reading-actions applied to articles of this general nature may decay into traps of a “not getting out of the car” variety. (If I had a better way that I thought would be useful to talk about, I'd be talking about it.)

That description is distinctly reminiscent of the rise of containerization in software.

Given the presence of mood fluctuations and other noise, repeatedly being triggered to re-evaluate a decision on whether or not to take a one-shot action when not much has relevantly changed in the meantime seems subject to a temporal unilateralist's curse: if you at time 1000 choose to do the action even if you at times 0–999 didn't choose it and you at times 1001–1999 wouldn't have chosen it, it still happens. The most well-known example that comes to mind of this being bad is addiction and “falling off the wagon”, but it seems like it generalizes.

Yes, but I've seen “syncopathy” rarely as a coinage meaning something along the lines of “convergence of emotion”, which is just-about within plausibility range.

Is the repeated use of “syncopathy” here a misspelling of “sycophancy”, or does it have a domain-specific meaning I'm not familiar with?

In less serious (but not fully unserious) citation of that particular site, it also contains an earlier depiction of literally pulling up ladders (as part of a comic based on treating LOTR as though it were a D&D campaign) that shows off what can sometimes result: a disruptive shock from the ones stuck on the lower side, in this case via a leap in technology level.

feature proposal: when someone is rate limited, they can still write comments. their comments are auto-delayed until the next time they'd be unratelimited. they can queue up to k comments before it behaves the same as it does now. I suggest k be 1. I expect this would reduce the emotional banneyness-feeling by around 10%.

If (as I suspect is the case) one of the in-practice purposes or benefits of a limit is to make it harder for an escalation spiral to continue via comments written in a heated emotional state, delaying the reading destroys that effect compared to delaying the writing. If the limited user is in a calm state and believes it's worth it to push back, they can save their own draft elsewhere and set their own timer.

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Oops? Would love to see the actual image here.

Not LLMs yet, but McDonalds is rolling out automated order kiosks,

That Delish article is from 2018! (And tangentially, I've been using those as my preferred way to order things at McDonald's for a long while now, mostly because I find digital input far crisper than human contact through voice in a noisy environment.)

The subsequent “Ingrid Jacques” link goes to a separate tweet that links to the Delish article, but it's not the Ingrid Jacques tweet, which itself is from 2024. I think the “tyson brody” tweet it links to instead might be a reply to the Ingrid Jacques one, but if so, that's hidden to me, probably because I'm not logged in.

My (optimistic?) expectation is that it ends up (long run) a bit like baking.

Home/local music performance also transitioned into more of a niche already with the rise of recorded music as a default compared to live performance being the only option, didn't it?

At that scale its more "celebrity-following", but that is also something the AI would not have - I don't know how big a deal that is.

While I doubt it will be the same thing for a transformer-era generative model due to the balance of workflow and results (and the resultant social linkages) being so different, it seems worth pointing out as a nearby reality anchor that virtual singers have had celebrity followings for a while, with Hatsune Miku and the other Crypton Future Media characters being the most popular where I tread. In fact, I fuzzily remember a song said to be about a Vocaloid producer feeling like their own name was being neglected by listeners in favor of the virtual singer's (along the lines of mentally categorizing the songs as “Miku songs” rather than “(producer) songs”), but I can't seem to source the interpretation now to verify my memory; it might've been “Unknown Mother-Goose”.