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I don't know what you think I said, you should read the context again. This has nothing to do with movies being made with AI.

Altman thinks that movies "will become videogames". As in, he sees media as some sort of ranked ladder where everyone wants to climb as high as possible. He does not understand what movies are or why people like them.

No it doesn't, not even close. You are looking at a video represented as pixels changing on a flat screen. None of it actually exists. You exist, the computer or phone in front of you is composed of mass and energy, and absolutely none of it is algorithmic. World models, as complex as they are, are still just pushing numbers around on paper.

It boggles the mind how these people can be so dumb. He literally does not understand why people enjoy movies.

> as an extreme measure the wealthy are able to take, or desperate indentured servants are shipped off to work.

This is the part I don't think people appreciate: space sucks. It's horrible. There is not a chance that the rich decide that they'd do that rather than lounge on a yacht. The working class goes first into the mines.

It's okay as long as they call it out, but the author doesn't and instead states it like a fact. They could have easily caveated it with "but a magical camera that can see magnetic and gravitational fields" or something. The analogy is fine, but it's not presented as one, so it's not clear how far the analogy actually goes. So the takeaway is "wow technically it's possible!"

Yes, the rest of the article is pretty good.

> Holography implies that you can do that — reconstruct every fold, vessel, and neuron in three dimensions — without actually looking inside. Simply photographing the surface of the brain somehow suffices.

Gah I am not a fan of pop-sci simplifications like this for the sake of a soundbite. The author goes onto explain how no, a picture is not enough, you need to actually measure the distortion of spacetime at the surface. Somebody is going to walk away thinking this stuff is possible, that maybe psychics really can detect something wrong with them.

Yeah and LLMs can't do anything, they can only produce text. These "frontier labs" are looping that with a harness that performs actions requested by the LLM. They are literally saying "we ran a script that hacked you, oopsie!!"

This is delightful! What a nice and wholesome resource.

The story is that the writer is Orcaset, which is trying to sell you their own analysis tools.

And yet, the React/SSR infra has never gone down.

No they don't, human intelligence has the ability to form an internal model of itself, which allows it to "notice" its own mistakes and change.

We used to think that if a computer could play chess, it would be intelligent. Maybe back then they were also people saying "stop trying to draw lines, just admit it's intelligent!!" Good thing we didn't listen to them.

The act of distinguishing between human intelligence and LLMs is what allows us to figure out how to make it better. There are still some deep limitations, and to ignore them is a mistake. That doesn't take away from how crazy good they are.