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hollowdene | 1 year ago | on: EA CEO: "Real hunger" among developers to use AI to speed up development

On the one hand, gaming is one of the few industries where generative AI can have a big impact on producitivity today. It's easy to be cynical, but used well it could reverse the trend of excessively expensive AAA game development.

On the other hand, who would trust the CEO of EA / EA in general not to do all the wrong things with AI to save a buck.

TL;DR: Generative could help a lot, but big publishers will use it the worse ways possible.

hollowdene | 3 years ago | on: Excess death from around the world due to Covid

This is quite a flawed and obviously biased analysis.

To use just one example. If the UK hadn't had locked down when it did, it's likely the entire health service would have collapsed, leading to more excess AND Covid deaths.

Unlike the author, I don't pretend to have the answer, but anyone with a functioning brain can see this "analysis" is without merit.

hollowdene | 3 years ago | on: London’s Fix for Air Pollution: Making Drivers Pay Up

Income gets reinvested in the transport infrastructure, e.g. public transport.

Ultimately, only public transport can "solve" congestion and air pollution. It was interesting to see Uber references heavily in this. Uber is a significant contributor to increased congestion and pollution in cities, no matter what it might claim.

hollowdene | 3 years ago | on: Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs

Yeah. The first few seconds of Rogan talking were pretty decent, but Jobs doesn't sound right at all, mainly because of the dialogue specifically.

But I do kind of get the hype.

hollowdene | 3 years ago | on: UK opens up 'high-potential individual route' for tech worker immigration

Yeah, fair. This is more global in nature and could have been done while we were in the EU, too.

The broader point is this is a salve for the skills shortage caused by leaving the EU.

You've also perfectly illustrated why basing this on an arbitrary top 50 is stupid in the extreme, but this is government we have.

hollowdene | 3 years ago

Looking forward to full self driving when it arrives in 2014.

hollowdene | 3 years ago | on: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

In this specific case, it's a great example of how Google's attempts to keep people on Google has made search worse.

It's showing this result as a featured snippet because it's easy to distil into steps, and Google is hoping you'll just read the result and not leave Google.

The real 'no.1 result' is this much better article from a trusted UK-based motoring organization: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/car-maintenance/how-to-ch...

Of course, Google's attempts to stop you leaving, and hoover up as much of the ad market as possible, also drives publishers to ever more desperate things to make money.

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