ninethirty

Social media should increase your number of friends in real life, but that's not been my experience. There's a lot of lonely people out there, so many somebody will figure this out.

If China does invade, then it seems likely that North Korea would also invade SK, forcing the US to fight on at least 2-fronts, or 3 depending on what Russia is doing. If I was rich I'd move to Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America, and wait this thing out.

You can't fail at "A Short Hike" or "Goose Game". Games without losing are great for young players like 5-year olds, who get frustrated when they can't time that jump just right.

afaik, that's by design. It's more like BBS'ing where people in the know can find a cool place to hangout that's not overrun by the rest of the planet. Like a beach without annoying tourists.

WW3 will likely start over China invading Taiwan or NK invading South Korea, triggering defense pacts in approx 2027.

You are incentivizing low-effort video-posts (to unlock your feed). This is not a good strategy.

Weirdly, people don't have as many friends as they used to. That's why TikTok beat Facebook. Facebook is useless if you don't have a friend-graph IRL, like a telephone system with only one telephone. I think the future of social is going to be 1-on-1 interactions, everything else just becomes rep-farming, crowd-pleasing, performance art, trolling, etc.

Who even uses 3D spaces besides gaming? User-generated content is usually terrible, like Mario-maker -- most user-gen levels aren't any fun.

Anyway, go play SecondLife for awhile before you spend too many more cycles thinking about this.

GPT-4 Will Have 100 Trillion Parameters — 500x the Size of GPT-3

The weakness was the open-channel for submissions, they now need to gatekeep with submission-fees or some other mechanism.

Mario Kart 64, SMB3, 2-player Metal Warriors.

This is about a button added to edge browser (in dev mode) that appears to be ChatGPT instance with contextual knowledge of the video.