Tommaso Sciortino

If all the companies agreed, they could just agree on a common file format and let users upload their own data.

Yeah. I don't see how this solves any problem that "let players download the skins they buy" doesn't also solve.

To be up front, I don't even think bitcoin is very useful for anything other than crime.

And even if they did contain the data, they can't guarantee that selling the NFT means no one else has the data since the data can easily be copied.

The problem is that NFTs don't contain the data. They just contain a pointer to the data that may or may not go stale.

And even if the NFT contained the actual data instead of the pointer, it's not clear to me how it's any better than just storing the data on your own machines/cloud.

Again, the problem is how is that useful? NFTs don't even solve problem as simple as "can I buy a minecraft skin and own it without having to trust Minecraft Inc.?" You still have to trust that Minecraft Inc will honor it since all the NFT contains is the url pointing to it.

Really, besides the Immutable Ledger which is also used by bitcoin, NFTs don't use any technology that wasn't also used in - like - OpenSSL.

Right. I mean, NFTs basically only use a subset of the techniques used used for bitcoins. They aren't the same as bitcoins. They are simpler.

And also, NFTs aren't really even that interesting. They don't do anything bitcoin didn't do already.

The problem with NFTs is people confusing "technically impressive achievement" with "many people should buy one".

Radioactive bubble chambers are technically pretty interesting. but I don't think it makes sense for many people to buy them.

Waluigi Coates

Sure. But there were many there who *definitely* were saying "We pledge support for Trump".

The real answer Is NIMBYs made it too expensive for anyone else to live there.

I saw a demonstration in front of the Ferry Building today with lots of Iranian flags (the old royal version). The crowd seemed... pro-Trump?

Not clear how representative of the diaspora they are.

Just finished reading Moonraker and not only does it bear absolutely no relation to the movie, but Bond doesn't even get the girl at the end!

Still an enjoyable read!

Edge case: Frankenstein's monster earns a doctorate

Wait, what?

Ok, but this is a mostly bipartite graph. Is a giant component still likely under those conditions?

Still embarrassed I voted for Nader.

So like, it's not a "truth" manifold so much as a "boring" manifold.

BlueSkyers who reply with "it's always been like this", and trot out tame precursors AT BEST and non sequiturs at worst, get blocked because whether they realize it or not, they are a big part of the problem.

i am willing to say that i can speak with a fair amount of authority, in general, about the types of beliefs which might lead someone to leave an oversight role at an AI company

My kids are making a lego set of a bonsai tree which is like two levels of indirection: They're making a thing that's supposed to look like a thing that's supposed to look like a big tree.

Reading @davidcrespo.bsky.social argue with lawyers about LLMs here has been really informative. I've learned things like: some lawyers are unable to explain the difference between a "citation" and a "reference" to non-lawyers.

At one point I gave up and just started writing python programs to solve them.

Our way of life as we knew it could not even be bothered to defend itself against an explicitly-stated existential threat. We have to find a mode of ourselves that believes in our right to exist.

Also, there's absolutely no crisp distinction between "an LLM" and "an LLM with certain preparatory instructions". Prepending "please ask questions if the following request is not clear" is equivalent to using a LLM with slightly different weights.

Do you understand why people are sensitive to comments that could be interpreted as bigoted? We are living in an age when Nick Fuentes is a well-known podcaster who got famous marching with Tiki torches and signs that said, "Jews will not replace us".