This ^^^

It’s a, err, medium term problem. There’s going to be a serious deficit of attentive human problem solvers before anything can “automate” that away.

Out the back. Top Gear said it vacuumed the dust off their track:

It is most definitely “pavement only” with those tires, anyway.

And all around it! If you can see water, gators can get there.

One night, a bug gator spotted us, ran away and just started tearing up a neighbor’s patio trying to hide. I kept thinking they would open the door and find it right there.

Not many:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_States

They are everywhere in parts of Florida and Louisiana, though. When I was out walking the dog, I’d see them scurry across the street, or scamper into nearby bogs/lakes. You definitely have to watch out for them.

A EV called the McMurtry Spéirling can do that “drive upside down” trick. A fan under the body + adaptive curtains suck it to the ground like a vacuum cleaner, for extra grip on tracks.

IIRC they have patents on the curtains, so Tesla isn’t doing that.

Doing it with compressed air or whatever is… actually kinda impressive. But it seems like it wouldn’t work for very long, and like a significant safety hazard in a crash.

Another factor is that model capabilities are topping out, but inference costs of cheaper models are absolutely plummeting.

In other words, it’s a race to the bottom. And inference will become a dirt cheap commodity.

…And what do we need all those datacenters for if inference is dirt cheap?

Washington worried about political parties overpowering the checks before he was even president, and worried until his deathbed. This was taught in school, IIRC.

It’s not that simple, as:

• Other companies/institutions have heavy investments in OpenAI.

• Other companies’ expected long-term revenue depends on OpenAI.

• They are the “face” of LLMs to finance world. If they tank, the illusion shatters, and investments pulls out of “AI” everywhere.

I agree that Google, Meta, the companies will be fine, as you said. Nvidia/AMD will be fine. Even XAI will be fine. The physical companies and their business aren’t going anywhere.

But their stocks will drop precipitously, and drag others into the rut with them like a black hole.

But that paragraph links to this as a reference: https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

In that link, it’s clear “abusive users” means users trying to repeatedly bring up prohibited topics. Anthropic is many bad things, but not insane; they know their models can’t be “abused” themselves, they can be abused as a tool.

Well, the actual post is talking about users, not “hurting the model’s feelings” like the header seemingly implies.

I’m not a Claude apologist or anything, but this is a misleading post, IMO.

Yeah.

I don’t like Anthropic’s long term prospects, but OpenAI is specifically in trouble, near term.

Their whole premise was becoming a Facebook-style “where else are you gonna go?” captured market on the consumer side, and that is clearly not happening. They wanted an enterprise monopoly, and those business customers are looking elsewhere.

Their ass is cooked.

I used to think this, and maybe I’ve been lucky, but I get fresh produce whenever I try.

I would never get a huge produce order curbside, but I use it for the odd thing here and there.

I haven’t played a skating game since the old Tony Hawk games. Honestly, this is tempting me to buy Skate.

Is anyone here actually playing the mod?

I’m pretty sure delivery made it obsolete?

Curbside delivery is awesome, in many situations.

And they can afford to leave a few checkers in there for the situations that call for in-store shopping. That’s where self checkout would fail anyway.

People discovering their apps watch them.

Amazon is definitely going to plug that hole.

I know.

One can’t just bolt HBM onto something else, no matter how skilled the hacker is. It needs an interposer to connect it because the pin pitch is so small, and it needs a memory controller that supports it.

EDIT: And if you’re talking about AMD using it in gaming GPUs or some other hardware, unfortunately the design pipeline is very long. If AMD decided to make a gaming HBM GPU right this second, and rushed it, it would take years to design it and get it in production.

The trailer is so wholesome.

I will share some impulse thoughts:

• I love the SDV-style NPCs. Personality, their style, their lives; that’s such a draw.

• Love the look of resource gathering. Yes, I will mine some tin and chop some trees. Though I might suggest making these activities “interesting” with physics (like how trees will fall down and tumble in Valheim).

• All the animations are gorgeous.

• Love the variety of monsters. It feels alien.

• I have more mixed feelings about the style of traits. I know many are fans of ‘oldschool’ RPG systems, but I’m personally not.

• I’d prefer more of a ‘psyche’ and skill system like Rimworld or something.

• Combat is down to user taste.

• I’m sure many have told you this, but TBH, I’m unlikely to play a survival game like this if it’s just solo. But I’m not asking for networking; even if it had couch split screen, that’d be great. I could even stream the screen remotely.

Unfortunately, memory production capacity changes vary slowly.

In spite of the drama, memory production hasn’t increased all that much, which is why there is such a RAM crisis. Maybe it will grow some before the bubble pops, but Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung aren’t stupid:

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/10/01/microns-long-term-chip-deals-jump-63-percent-as-ai-memory

They are getting companies to sign long term (5+ year) pricing contracts. In other words, they clearly know the bubble could pop. They are already hedging their bets, and they aren’t going to put themselves in the position of massive overexpansion.

Datacenter GPUs can’t game :(. As in, it’s literally impossible, as they are missing ROPs.

The last generation that could is basically the Nvidia V100, and the datacenter equivalent of your Radeon VII. AMD removed the ROPs after the Radeon VII generation. The RTX 3000-generation Nvidia A100 can technically run a game if hacked to do so, but it performs extremely poorly because of a lopsided compute config.

Now, if you are interested in GPU compute and self-hosting, maybe we can use them.

But Nvidia learned to buy back and destroy GPUs during the last crypto bust, so I’m afraid they may do it again.

If I had a few billion for a TSMC factory, I would…

This is what I’m referencing. The memory sits on the package with the processor, connected with thousands of microscopic traces, so fine it needs an expensive substrate rather than a typical PCB, and expensive equipment to assemble:

The connectors are tiny, and made with immense precision. There are about a thousand reasons you can’t just transfer HBM once its been used, and besides; other memory controllers wouldnt’ support it.