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I call the stack with Mac Studios “MacAIver” because it feels like a duct tape solution, but the Spark equivalent would likely be more elegant.
Our enterprise internal IT has a low friction way to request a Mac Studio (192GB) for our team and it’s a wonderful central EXO endpoint. (Life saver when we’re generally GPU poor)
Is their world model limited to themselves, their family, their village, their country, their race, their world, their species, their system? Combined with their understanding of social dynamics at each level.
I think the average GenZ in the US is at beginning of global scale, which is great for acceptance of different cultures; but without understanding the social dynamics yet. Giving us “woke” because they understand different cultures have different contexts, this is good but incomplete. E.g. some cultures aren’t aligned with the entire species, like controlling women in a way that leads to bad outcomes as technology adds complexity to our social dynamics.
Measuring this perspective level would help us understand which cultural models work best in adapting with growth and are more likely to be sustainable post-scarcity.
The tricky part here is (football metaphor) so far I’m having to train the “strikers” before I can effectively train the “goalie”. Which feels bad for AI safety. I think this is why we’re not seeing a lot of work in the open here.
But we’re planning to open source the goalie, which will look more like Markov/monte-Carlo traditional ML on specific bits, like infrastructure as code.
If you want to work on this stuff, especially in EU, DM me; we’re hiring ;)
I moved to Sweden 2 months ago (from Seattle, where I grew up) but over the last decade I’ve lived in Seoul, Singapore, Bangkok, and Reykjavik. The government here feels most similar to the US, worse in some ways. Paperwork is like a hobby and doing it slowly is almost glorified.
I love it in many ways, but it’s baffling that I still don’t have a government ID, and am months away from getting a bank account. (Which would block me from getting a paycheck if I wasn’t high enough to at my company to get an exception and wire to my U.S./EU accounts. But for most relocated employees, they just don’t get paid for the first few months). The HR here says this is something they can’t change because it’s legal requirements from the government? But they just shrug and say that’s the Swedish way it works because it’s been working. And now I’m too embarrassed to hire the people I need to until I have good workarounds for these processes (there are many more issues).
As a Swede with history of what used to be good, and what’s working in other places, what would it take to get Sweden to correct these aspects of the way things are run?
A feature that would be great here though is to have realtime conversations, I think you can connect a lot more when it’s realtime. Also supporting text replies could be really helpful.
Anyway, love what you’re building here and hope it goes well!
What a curious psychological study, maybe dyslexic people feel more threatened by a large language model so clearly understanding words that they’re more likely to attempt to discredit it?
Bugs really made this game one of a kind, it's sad it would be so hard to replicate. The way he uses strafing and delay casting on corners to fight odds is amazing.
I still remember my hands shaking when I was in PK fights like this in my youth. The consequences of death made fighting so much more intense in this type of MMO.
I think the best bug was the movement possibilities during spell casting from breaking animations. It created one of the most complex and amazing PK (PvP) dynamics of any MMO to exist.
The complexity of being able to move only so much to still get your cast off, and being able to slightly fast-cast or hold long delay-casts to "outplay" your opponents created so much depth to duels it was incredible.
Even after all these years I can still remember the Arc cast I would do, it was the keyboard combo: Hold Left -> Hold Z -> X -> tap/hold up to control the radius Then Hold Right -> Hold C -> X -> tap up to reverse the arc to return to where you initiated the cast so the spell could go off.
Man I miss this game, I hope someone creates a wonderfully buggy remake someday!
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Vanillin does the same thing. So does dancing and some forms of yoga.
But foods like cacao (or significantly dark chocolate) directly contain anandamides which cause euphoria.
Cacao also has re-uptake inhibitors that make the euphoric feeling last a lot longer. This is why ancient civilisations like the Olmecs, Aztecs, and Mayans would mix drinks of cacao, vanilla, and capsaicin. And modern Mexican chocolate often mixes in pepper. Without Cacao the anandamide induced euphoria is very short lived.
Sleep is like diet, it’s different for everyone. I’ve trained myself to lucid dream to try to make the most of the days when I oversleep but it still sucks. The point seems more like maximise for time when you’re actually accomplishing things. What’s healthy for each person is different.