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...aaand apparantly "here" meant YouTube "community" page which I keep forgetting exists, while this very post was just a copypaste from there that nobody bothered to check. Oh well.

The best multiplayer FPS maps I've seen were in Unreal Tournament (a.k.a. UT99). Their creators somehow managed to make them both great as a shooting gallery and as a believable place. Fetid looked and felt like a functioning sewer while being an impeccably polished deathmatch map, Condemned looked and felt like an actual urban slum while being an impeccably polished domination map, HiSpeed looked and felt like an actual train while being an impeccably polished assault map, and so on. If making a great FPS map is like acing a physics exam, then making a great FPS map which also looks and feels like an actual place is like acing a physics exam while answering your question in rhymed verses.

I can't decide whether this AI is too dumb or too smart...

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[in Ross's voice from the Realms of the Haunting episode] MEANWHIIIILE

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Is this 7 PM UTC?

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Meanwhile, Adobe Firefly neural network revealed what was outside the camera's view on Jason Statham's photo.

I'm counting on those "half a dozen people in the future where it won't be about AI", and hope that "this is just kind of winding down after the last talk".

I, for one, find this a great idea. For as long as Ross's channel existed, an ongoing problem was to fill the gaps between "main" videos (as you probably know, this is exactly how Freeman's Mind came to existence). I always thought that gaming streams would be a nice solution, but Ross was concerned that they don't have enough long-lasting value. So, now we might actually get a source of videos which both (a) don't take much effort to produce and (b) have long-lasting value. Besides, Ross is a really good interviewer, as long as he is genuinely interested in the topic being discussed, and he has just enough subscribers for his channel to be a lucrative platform for serious™ guests.

The content of this chart is fine, but the layout is... really weak, to put it mildly. First two trees ("risks right now" and "possible") grow from top downward, as they should, while the third one ("fantasy") grows from the bottom upwards. Some lines represent causative connection, others just consolidate a bunch of single-rank entries. A weird double-arrowed line at the top suggests time flow. "Superintelligence" is visually located in "possible risks", whereas (as far as I understand the message) its place is obviously in "fantasy". All in all, it took me way more time to decipher this than it should have. Seems like someone is ought to read some Tufte.

I really like how à propos today's FreeFall strip is:

Ross has the patience of a saint.

Let me guess. You are RaTcHeT302, aren't you?