One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small or self-hosted one? (Or in other words—does the nature of the platform software potentially incentivize consolidation?)

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

Dammit—I can see that actually taking off with many audiences, if it generates an eye-catching fake image to go with every text post.

Do you imagine them uniting under one of the current governments, or some kind of new or hybrid government?

What’s your hope for future relations between North and South Korea?

I would call that resourcefulness, and make productivity a function of resourcefulness × efficiency.

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I’ve known people who were raised by their grandparents and grew up OK, but I assume it was harder on the grandparents.

Great—let’s test it on politicians and law enforcement first.

If by “western” you mean “everything west of China”, then the Shahnameh.

If you mean “European/Mediterranean”, then Homer.

If you specifically mean “western Europe”, then yeah—probably Shakespeare.

Yeah, jpeg converts to lab (or something similar, I think). But the dimensions are the same: one channel for lightness, and then a number of channels one less than the total number of sampled frequencies to capture the rest of the color space.

Spectral JPEG XL utilizes a technique used with human-visible images, a math trick called a discrete cosine transform (DCT), to make these massive files smaller […] it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively.

This all sounds like standard jpeg compression. Is it just jpeg with extra channels?

So they’re adding phone capabilities to Tamagotchi?

The 80s smelled like hairspray and styling gel.

“I judge the parties on their rhetoric, not their record.”

Start a website like geoguesser, where you post everything you remember and have people compete to find and save the victim.

The second law of thermodynamics.

A poem by the 19th-century radical essayist Leigh Hunt, referencing an 8th-century Bactrian Sufi mystic.

The most common theories of reincarnation hold that it is punishment for misdeeds in past lives.

I like Molly White’s recent take, that it might be more productive to treat this as a labor issue instead of a copyright issue (at least in principle). Even if the AI corporations aren’t technically re-selling copyrighted works, they’re still profiting from the authors’ unpaid labor.

If there are a bunch of posts on a particular topic, shouldn’t it keep at least one of them? Otherwise it would tend to completely filter out the most significant or interesting topics.