I’m not so sure, but it does say 1976 in the title.

I think people in this thread are forgetting how floaty suspension used to be. Imagine hitting a pothole and the car is still bouncing 5 seconds later. In the US at the time the National Speed Limit was 55 mph (89kph).

As a UX person often my job is to implement somebody else’s vision rather than being able to design something that makes sense.

He also quite famously told Carrie Fisher that she couldn’t wear a bra…

9/11 helped but by that point Christian nationalists had already spent the 20 years since Regan tying patriotism to faith.

Actual depiction of Americans before it became a dictatorship…

The Internet will continue to function just fine, just as it has for 50 years. It’s the World Wide Web that is on fire. Pretty much has been since a bunch of people who don’t understand what Web 2.0 means decided they were going to start doing “Web 3.0” stuff.

These things can’t think and they don’t reason no matter what they call the model. Toddlers can do both of those things.

Until we have another breakthrough at the level of neural networks AI will only be as good as the sum total of the training data and therefore only as good (or bad) as humans can be, never better.

I don’t understand it. It’s like people don’t just want AI to be the next big thing, they NEED it to be the next big thing. Suggesting that current AI is about as useful as NFTs is personally insulting for some reason.

Why not both?

I am just going to leave this here…

But then we would have never gotten the classic that is Hotel Mario.

One of my favorite fun facts about video game consoles is that both the PlayStation and CD-i exist largely due to Nintendo being an ass to Sony and Phillips while looking for a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES to compete with the Sega CD. After getting the run around, both companies basically said ‘fine fuck it we are making our own consoles with blackjack and hookers…’