A Wild Mimic appears!

those ai16z guys do want to create an Marc AIndreessen - an AI bot fed with as much stuff that Andreessen writes and says as possible; this bot will be able to invest in crypto autonomously and their target is to have this bot a better financial outcome than Andreessen themselves, if i understand the summaries correctly.

I went through most of the linked documentation, and the only thing that i was able to find was under https://elizaos.github.io/eliza/docs/advanced/eliza-in-tee/ in the docker-compose.yaml

...
        environment:
            - REDPILL_API_KEY=$REDPILL_API_KEY
            - SMALL_REDPILL_MODEL=anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet
            - MEDIUM_REDPILL_MODEL=anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet
            - LARGE_REDPILL_MODEL=anthropic/claude-3-opus
...
            - TWITTER_DRY_RUN=false
            - TWITTER_USERNAME=$TWITTER_USERNAME
            - TWITTER_PASSWORD=$TWITTER_PASSWORD

which tracks with elons shitty type of humor. in the screenshot “Click on the Logs tab to view the agent logs” there is a timestamp: 2024-12-07, which, if it uses american style YYYY-DD-MM, would give credence to the statement that elon had earlier access to the ELIZA Agent.

I didn’t find anything else, but i must admit that i am tired as hell and might have

edit: fixed my date stuff and i might have missed something lol

I remember playing this a few years ago on my pc, it was really fun, good to see you enjoying it too :-) I remember expecting it to be utter trash, since most games based on movie licences are, but was positively surprised.

The water rating is fun :-) i had a phase where i collected screenshots of rats in computer games, it was interesting how different they looked!

Idea: split canada in 200 states, take over the senate!

I fully agree and just wand to add my suspicion that people in the Apple ecosystem are a pretty tough crowd to sell a Resident Evil title to begin with. Most gamers I know would never buy an Apple PC if they have a choice, and the overlap between “serious” gaming and Android is probably a lot stronger.

(I hear a faint echo of “Don’t you guys have phones?” in this.)

No, they are the morals of all people who try to take away freedoms from others, for example parents who prefer an open discussion with their children, or people who might risk a lot by their preferences becoming public in a data leak - like the whole of the LGBT-spectrum in the USA, Russia, large areas of Africa and the UK too (since gender-affirming care is getting wrecked there too) for example. Even if it weren’t that parts of the public were endangered, the underlying tools and mechanisms are easily abused as censoring mechansisms - slap a “that’s against our morals”-sticker on it and let it disappear.

All my traffic is running over a VPN, because i don’t like getting tracked. But regulations like this go beyond what affects me (it really doesn’t - i couldn’t tell you when i last watched porn if i wanted to). A prime example would be reproductive health; sites that explain a teenager stuff that he wouldn’t ask his parents or a teacher might easily be labels as pornographic by puritans (the parents you wish that spoke up more might not, but i can guarantee you that those types will speak up first and loudest when they get the chance). You are also taking away that from every teenager in the country, especially those less privileged and with zealots as parents.

Even worse: The clearweb porn sites today are pretty sanitized, so there won’t be anything really illegal on it. If they get their fingers on the stuff on the dark web by installing TOR, then they might be exposed to far more dangerous, illegal and traumatizing content and real life dangers than the average porn clip.

The barrier for entry can also be set by parents, if they are worth a fuck. put parental locks on their devices, thats the only thing you can realistically control anyways. No need for messy databases which will leak, no need for creating a precedent for censoring the web. Limiting advertising for whatever is easy in comparison and the mechanisms are already in place (and active - i don’t think that hardcore porn gets many ad slots at prime time tv).

Stealing and hurting infringes on the freedom of others, watching porn doesn’t. My ID isn’t required for buying alcohol because i don’t get confused with a 16 year old anymore.(you can add 3-4 decades on that) You still get asked even being a parent of a child? Must be quite the genes you have there.

Sorry for assuming your parenting habits. You spoke like one of those zealots i spoke above. If you aren’t one and you simply didn’t realize the dangers of legislation like this when enacted, i hope that you i gave you food for thought.

Your personal morals should not be the basis of laws that invade the privacy of every last person in the country, including your sons. Don’t you think that educating your son on sex, porn and reasonable usage (depending on age) would be an approach that would foster an atmosphere of trust and responsibility in the relationship between you and your child, making a law unnecessary? The way you seem to handle it just a) makes most kids curios and b) will make kids just hide their behaviour (and they will be seeing stuff, since most kids gain access in one way or another, and they share proudly for clout). Don’t forget that the best liars come from very strict homes.