> I have no qualms about whether AI finished this, just enjoying the fact that nostalgia can be invoked more easily and cheaply than ever before.
Maybe making nostalgic experiences available so cheaply is not a good thing. For me seeing mods and reimaginings of old games is interesting because people puts lots of effort into them with attention to detail and their own ideas. Someone recreating Half-Life 1 with modern graphics using AI is not going to create something as cool as Black Mesa, for instance, which didn't attempt to make a 1 to 1 recreation but to improve things and make it fit with more modern graphics.
LLMs can also greatly streamline this process as well. For a silly gameplay example, if you wanted to enable double jumping in Quake you could do it in a few minutes and a single prompt instead of what would have previously been the start of a pretty significant dive into the code.
Basically I think what we're seeing is that LLMs make everything easy, and so the standard for success is going to increase somewhat significantly simply because there are no longer any barriers whatsoever to doing things.
From Nvidia/their investors' perspective: it shows lack of good judgment that might cause future scandals or blackmail, stirs up media attention that distracts from the company's work, hurts the company's image as a fair employer, and damages the reputation of the human face of the company.
Generations are not a useful concept. People need to stop thinking of themselves as a member of a club with certain personality traits and instead as belonging to a class and position in society that affects how they see the world.
Being an affluent retiree affects your worldview no matter what generation you are from. It is not exclusive to Boomers. Gen Xers of that socioeconomic status will act similarly when they reach that age.
Embarrassing that they even attempted to do this. It shows major ignorance of fundamental Catholic beliefs. Why would the Pope take a millenarianist AI religion that worships technology and the gospel of VCs seriously?
People in the same party are not always aligned. Representatives want to get pork for their district, so to get their vote you need to do something for them, e.g. route the high speed train through their district even if that is not the most optimal route.
Agreeing on low-cost housing or high speed rail in the abstract is not enough to form a coalition to implement them.
I think it is more accurate to think of them as syncretic. (that is what Wikipedia has them listed as) Their main focus seems to be on nationalism/anti-immigration rather than socialism. Many fascist parties historically flirt with socialist policies as a way to make inroads with working class voters so it is not always straightforward.
What is causing the recent jump in new arbitration agreements? I have gotten emails from Google, Amazon, Venmo, various credit card companies, and now FreeTaxUSA in the last few weeks with very similar policy changes.
The idea of a copy with no original is even more relevant than when the book was first published as it has become possible to use AI to generate fake images. (e.g. the million "Look what they took from you" slop accounts on Twitter that post nostalgic images of "traditional values" with clear anachronisms or inaccuracies)
Current events have also been increasingly defined by fake images or videos that can be made very realistic-looking at first glance. There doesn't seem to be any effective mechanism to stop these kinds of lies from spreading. Social media incentivizes this content and whatever fact checking or correction that comes after is too slow to reverse the effects of the misinformation.
> All a country has to do to find itself on the receiving end of punishing Chinese trade actions is being mildly critical of China in the wrong way, and next thing they know their exporters to China report being held up for months.
If Donald Trump feels personally slighted by a country, he will put massive tariffs on them or threaten to invade them. At least China doesn't have an erratic mad king.
Maybe making nostalgic experiences available so cheaply is not a good thing. For me seeing mods and reimaginings of old games is interesting because people puts lots of effort into them with attention to detail and their own ideas. Someone recreating Half-Life 1 with modern graphics using AI is not going to create something as cool as Black Mesa, for instance, which didn't attempt to make a 1 to 1 recreation but to improve things and make it fit with more modern graphics.
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