I saw of video of Ethan Hawke lamenting how he's not reading half as much as he once did. This is a much deeper and darker pattern. Some of the most avid readers I know, lifelong readers, have basically stopped. They hate it and can't even explain it, the fire's just gone out
people are terrible at extrapolating potential issues from their ideas or hypothesis. I like to take their example but make it completely absurd in the parameters they've given and it seems to reveal the truth to them instantly, every time.
The only benchmark that really matters is "What will be the first AI model or human to find my white whale, the story I read once and have repeatedly tried to find again over the past decade?"
I do not expect Opus 5.5 to pass, but like Sisyphus with his rock, I try
Fuck it. Thread of Computer Gaming issue 208: World of Warcraft 10 page exclusive. This sucker is a GOLD MINE of ancient WoW alpha/beta lore and Blizzard's original design philosophies and intentions.
My favorite was always the original plan for the reputation system.
This is going to be watered down because crossed is too fucked for regular people. And if it's not then we've entered the last age and it'll all be over soon
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we're probably hitting the equilibrium soon where people won't care anymore if things are Gen AI'd. It's pretty obvious that advertising is completely saturated with it already.