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I lasted about a week before giving up on 4.7 and reverting to 4.6 myself. It introduced so many regressions it was nuts, then failed to troubleshoot the very regressions it introduced, leading to a vicious cycle that tended to compound itself.


SC3K had a masterfully executed advisor system that felt both classy and warm. Ditto its music and art.

Unfortunately for SC4, they proceeded to make all the advisors 3D-rendered Sims. For SC2K, well:

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/simcity-advisors/4/

(that was the least offensive page to link; for the canonical experience start at page 1)


YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!!


Wait, are those from Sim City 2000, released in 1993? One of them references Google Maps, first available under that name somewhere around 2004?


These were likely made with Foone's Death Generator. https://deathgenerator.com/#sc2k


Also Wazzup? was later. And the dialog looks different in screenshots you find online but then again there have probably been quite a few releases. Still, I would say those images are not real or maybe from some modded version.


I have a very vague memory of being able to name streets, so this might be that.


I vaguely remember 2 different releases of 3k with different advisors. I liked the cartoony ones better.


These aren’t actually from the game…


Correct. The advisor portraits are real, though.


These are all amazing. Thank you.


Reticulating splines

That feeling when you're on the cusp of cracking AGI but your fake-OnlyFans bot army can't quite keep up even basic appearances.


It occurred to me recently that AI's degradation of the human factor via way of increased pressure on the remaining ranks of humans might actually be far more damaging than the AI's output itself.


In other words it's not the car and its energy use, but rather its occupants.

A Night at the Roxbury comes to mind. Except, way less cool.


>Dennis is the best, but the book did him a disservice by painting an unrealistically sunny picture of him as some kind of visionary figure.

Wait, 'unrealistically sunny'? You better not be talking about Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, because we're all screwed if so.

Then again, the western AI landscape has become somewhat stale recently. Claude and Gemini may have cute names, but they all pale in comparison to The Golden God.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philade...

^ Educational resources for the ignorant that instead prefer to discuss the merits of the term "bro", at length.


>I cannot see any reason, over than oversight and a lack of imagination, why something useful in Ukraine in 2022 was not feasible or useful in 2017 by the USA.

Perhaps it had to do with optics? It's not like there was a lack of capability in 2017. [0]

The war in Ukraine provided a way for the US to assist in rapid iteration of the technology without having to shoulder the negative sentiment or grapple with the morality of it.

Also worth noting that the two conflicts were wildly different: Afghanistan was more of an occupation across a much larger area with air superiority. There's not really much impetus to field killer drone swarms when you already have the 24/7 ability to instantly delete most enemy combatants off the map to begin with.

Whereas Ukraine with neither side having air superiority and it resembling something closer to modern trench warfare. In most cases with literal trenches.

>We already used drones quite handily well before that time frame but in a much more limited manner in a different form factor.

The picture below is from 1995. [1]

By approximately 2001 it received the MQ-1A designation indicating it was capable of employing AGM-114 (hellfire) payloads. Kind of crazy to think about.

[0] https://www.twz.com/6866/60-minutes-does-an-infomercial-on-d...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator#...


Having written more sed invocations by hand than I care to remember, please bin me in the mediocre camp.

Aside: The speed at which AI can spit out complex diagnostics is nuts. Par is usually half a second for a dozen complex shell commands tailored to the exact problem at hand.


>... Does it have any waste products? ...

There's now commercially-available computers that operate using human neurons.

I figure before too long we'll be feeding our computers Pepto-Bismol and Tums.


>... but as there's no complete feedback loop, it still would require a lot of human effort.

Not for long. Picture this: a robot receives instructions on what to physically solder in order to complete the desired modification task.

However, before it can send an image back to the vision-aware LLM guiding it, the PCB lights on fire along with the robot because said LLM confidently gave the wrong instructions.

Then, the robotic fire brigade shows up and mostly walks into walls unable to navigate anywhere useful.

The future is bright.


I'm already having lots of success letting the agent loose on the arduino or rpi and figuring out all the annoying i2c bits and having me try different pinout and wiring combos until it works. Even with a human in the loop agents are useful right now for electronics. On one occasion I did give it a camera feed so it could check for itself if the LEDs were doing as expected.


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