Mike Ferraro

It's functionally a dart board but I bet they described it as "consulting with AI"

But what do you think of the bicameral mind theory?

From Luddites to Amish to Organic Food, there's always a guy who says "Back when I was a kid things were normal. Now it's crazy. We gotta draw the line."
Just a question how long the cult around each line lasts.

And it would be a pedestrian bridge to somewhere no pedestrian is going. What's over there? Everyone in the image is going car shopping? I don't see anyone in the picture carrying scrap metal and pallets for recycling. Are they doing a 2 mile Home Depot run on foot?

If the platform has achievements that can function as low-quality telemetry. In lieu of adding all the infrastructure and privacy policy compliance stuff for the game to phone home.

I'm out of touch, does the early access model still work? It seems feasible at least. But radio silence release on the same day you run out of money, hoping the player base will immediately sustain you... pretty big gamble if your burn rate requires a huge player base

Even Apex didn't really grow in players until guess when? The pandemic.

So I guess there's always the release strategy of hoping a global catastrophe creates an influx of people discovering your game fits an unforeseen social need.

I agree. Decades of entertainment releases say the reverse hockey-stick curve is always the same, you can only change how high the start point is.

Very rarely something sustains or even grows, when the idea is contagious and the market isn't already saturated with competition.

There's an interesting problem with people who work on a huge success. You learn so much more from failure. With success you can only assume everything you did was "the best way".

Nobody wants to admit "getting lucky with an idea's timing" is far more important than marketing or team culture.

I imagine without the trailer the player count curve would have been the same but with a lower starting point. I wonder how many people there think it would have reversed the curve, giving it a build instead? I'd buy that it could have smoothed the curve out, but I think higher total is unlikely...

A contact two degrees of separation away says they legit did not pay for that slot. Geoff likes people on the team, liked the game, and figured a freebie trailer slot would be better than the complete shadow drop they were planning.

They keep advertising issues you'd have with a fantasy AI that actually works but is not currently being developed, and equating it with the obvious dead end of 'stochastic autocomplete' that they keep shoveling money into

It always seemed like a dumb workaround but it just occurred to me that it's a great security feature for preventing accidental/malicious software installs, compared to people hammering OK on popups...

It's not an honest bet, the 'yes' holders plan to sell their stake for a profit before the end. Think of it like investing in a memecoin: nobody thinks the latest meme is the future of finance, but they DO think they can ride a pump and dump to make money.

2 years before the 787b inverted reality and got rotary engines banned for being too fuel efficient and reliable.

Some people have a personal style where I can't help but visualize them without the hair, all I see is a bald schlub wearing a costume

Why does he keep saying "both parties", we have more than 2 in this country

Literally born yesterday

Rick Wakeman playing 2 keyboards so far apart there's another keyboard between them

Rick Wakeman playing 2 keyboards at once

When Opa was a boy in the Netherlands, the starving nazi troops brought a truckload of flour to his family's bakery. The family told the soldiers it would make half what it would really make, then ran the ovens all night to smuggle bread out to the starving community.

Specifically the episode with German chocolate from 1942

You sound like someone who's never watched Steve1989MREInfo.

Beginning to suspect the good cop and bad cop are aligned against me

There's a Hot Pot place here in Vancouver with a BellaBot cruising around carrying plates for large orders. My 3 year old daughter didn't like any of the food but cried for weeks about going back to the "robot restaurant" and how we had to "bring the robot home." It didn't even visit our table.

The annoying thing is he does! YouTube "'NO CGI' is really just INVISIBLE CGI (2/5)", the last 3rd is an interview with a Nolan's VFX supe, and at the end is a bit of a Nolan VFX acceptance speech where he basically apologizes for keeping up appearances in the press.

Actual citation: an ancient Desmond Morris book "Catwatching"

Oh if she likes it then yeah nevermind! But people are often confused at "she showed me her belly and I rubbed it and she attacked, what's her problem?" and that's an answer [citation needed]. But then a lot of cats like chest scratches so it varies at where the line is.

It's a cat psychology thing. Presenting the soft underbelly says "I trust you" but touching there betrays that trust.

A good way to think about it is LLMs generate what a correct answer *looks like* but the actual information is random.