abhayaya

No, they are not. They are only getting better at hiding the deep dystopia.

Hi, secret DARPA project/funds requisition in early 1996. Please send a note informing the NY Federal Reserve Bank in December 1995 to let the former director know about your current CANVA rabbit problem at the imaginary Masters MS/Tennis games not here in May 2017, before we insist on freeing any random Markus/Marcus again and making him a hot pink uk lawyer hanging ten.

Uh or. Someone please learn to not let your 'agents' believe any random AI generated 'character' left logged in on a public terminal is a thing to believe.

Maybe Wisteria Lane.

Imho, legally, one should always be 'opted out' of 'forced mingling of your ideas' without deliberately opting in. Same as for advertising, click-through tracking, and sociopsycho/marketing metrics. Like the old firewall rule (easier to handle opt-in/out that way than firewalls; like, how many people can run a firewall that way now?). Users should have it right in front of their face when they install something or register, too, not hidden among options. It might take the user five or ten more minutes to get to use the app but worth it.

Hugging Face has an identity problem. It needs a gestalt therapist to take it back to where it was meant to grow up.

Oriental carpet stores seem to be doing alright still in the bay; less so in Manhattan, though you would think the same opportunity to rent property to startups could exist. Many of them have shut down or are only open by appointment. None of them offer the personal service I suspect the author is insinuating exists still. Near as I know that level of bespoke care died off a couple of decades ago unless you are very wealthy. No doubt the competition (but not competition) of sites like etsy, temu, ebay, and the large number of people who think things look sorta like something nicer contributed to the death of the end-to-end streets of Persian carpet stores. I still remember purchasing a knock off for under $85 during the dotcom boom. Nothing was individually dyed; it was all mostly just meant to look that way, like most 'oriental' carpet now. The materiels going into making the new-fangled rug bears no resemblence to those which make an old-style one. God-forbid you drop the wrong beverage or something on a really good old hand-made rug and the dye runs. Shopping in those large Persian rug stores are still lovely, when you can find one that is open (by appointment or not). They rarely have posted hours either.

Won't be keen on your data architecture thesis or resume. ;p

I still believe people should be able to tie their shoes, open cans and wine bottles, be able to print and write in cursive, be capable of longform coherent, logical and original prose writing, and pass a logic section of at least a couple of modern intelligence tests. Kids brains are pliable til what, 24-25? If they have any chance to be anything other than a mere appendange to a machine, they had better not be lazy before then. I especially believe that anyone, but at least those under the age of 23 or so should not rely on things like AI, agentic intelligence, or any form of group-cohesive input to learn how to express or explain concepts like friendships, family, or love.

This does not belong in high school either.