Limitations
May 7, 2023•16 words
What would you do if you only had 1 percent of your current capacity to spare?
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AI rush - here's what it looks like from the inside
May 6, 2023•287 words
There are so many exciting, scary, and new things to be found in this essay on AI (HT to Seth Godin for linking to this today) - which seems to have been originally published as an internal piece for Google.
You'll find your own ways to interpret this. Here are a few things I'm thinking about:
It's much easier and more affordable to make a change in AI than most people thought, even a few months ago
The big players, and the wannabe get-rich-quick propositions, are just as well positioned as o...
Read postThe opposite of the scaffolding is the jump ramp
May 20, 2023•561 words
The tutorial in the first mission of Terra Nil won't help you complete the first mission in one go. Maybe not even the second time around.
Some of the early choices you make will make late-game choices more difficult, or impossible. But you're unlikely to work this out in advance, and you're certainly not told what to do. You find out - in hindsight - that creating a new habitat is much more destructive than you'd planned, or that certain species can't live where you expect them to live because...
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