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”.

I don't see it as an elephant overall, but I can see how you could push it to be the head of one: the head is facing to the right, the rightmost curve outlines the trunk, the upper left part of the main ‘object’ is an ear, and some of the vertical white shapes in the bottom left quadrant can be interpreted as tusks.

While I appreciate the attempt to bring in additional viewpoints, the “Sign-in Required” is currently an obstacle.

I claim that very few people actually understand what they are using and what it effects it has on their mind.

How would you compare your generative-AI focus to the “toddlers being given iPads” transition, which seems to have already happened?

This SMBC from a few years ago including an “entropic libertarian” probably isn't pointing at what people call “e/acc”… right? My immediate impression is that it rhymes though. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

The first sentence here is very confusing and I think inverts a comparison—I think you mean “would make the world enough worse off”.