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Something else would end up scarcer


The fact that it's built with a game engine may make it easier than it would otherwise be.


if there's a server which runs an authoritative source of the canvas, then it'd be easier.

If it's peer-to-peer, then a CRDT style data format would be required, and that's not "easy".


Godot's high level networking is so nice because it's easy to do either.

Since everything in Godot is nodes, you can assign "ownership" of nodes to peers. Every peer has full control over their nodes and then you sync the data via RPC.

That way, you can do authoritative by just giving all the ownerships to the server node, or p2p by sharing which nodes belong to who.

In the context of drawing though, yeah if you want people to mess with other people's strokes it becomes annoying.


I wouldn't be surprised if the process is intertwined with a paper one as well. That adds significant complication, but it still shouldn't take it.


"I could create a whole new product that could scale to millions of users on a weekend." Sounds like an extremely appealing business idea.


A common use case, how to do random thing in programming:

I searched python make a bar chart and it returned a live coding video with an AI generated text transcript and two articles which mentioned a different kind of bar.

I then narrowed it down to just python bar chart, and got a blog post about scripting with a bar chart in it, this http://www.nitcentral.com/voyager4/hellyear.htm with monty python, bars, and charts from 1996 and among some other things I found this https://python-course.eu/naive_bayes_classifier_introduction..., which had an example of a python bar chart even though the title of the page made me think it wasn't what I wanted.

So for what I imagine to be a difficult search because of all the different meanings of the words, I found my result on the second query pretty quickly, and found some cool unrelated stuff too.

I like mostly that I get what I type in, and not exactly what I want, but what I want is there too.


I would probably use this if I wanted to find interesting blog posts/websites about a topic I want to learn more about in general. It seems less useful for returning exact answers to specific questions.


Seems like there's a probably reasonable trend of piling some other tool on top of the stack because dealing with underlying layers is hard. Like electron apps and docker images. Or just web browsers.

Kind of worrisome to abandon lower layers with their problems and build on top of them, but what can you do, but get good at jenga.


Does anyone know anything about japenese office culture that might be relevant to this? Maybe part of the SV culture like open offices makes this a whole different deal then how japan is.


Open offices and micromanagement are the default in Japan, we didn't invent them. It's actually a lot worse there because the culture is much more intense and yet the pay is low.


Even more interesting that the productivity dropped then.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ba...

May be relevant to the discussion, probably more so considering cars going hybrid.


What would you ask GPT-3?


I tried to ask it a bunch of existensial questions. I think the folks at OpenAI have hard-coded certain scenarios into the code. Purely speculating of course.


I meant to ask it, "What would you ask GPT-3?", unless that's what you meant by existential of course.


Oh my bad! Here's the response:

Human: What would you ask GPT-3?

AI: What is zero?

Human: What is zero?

AI: Zero is nothing. It's empty, a hole.


I may be misunderstanding the free oxygen part, but if that's the case why doesn't that happen in our ocean?


Because it's easier to harvest free oxygen on land. So since we have land, free-oxygen harvesters live there. Then they turn around and eat anything close to the surface that could evolve into a land-equivalent. But on an all-water planet, the putative bio-land makers would not have to compete with actual land-dwelling creatures because there wouldn't be any.

[UPDATE] Just to be clear: there's obviously no way to know whether this would happen. I'm only arguing that it could happen, and so lack of land is not necessarily a show-stopper for industrial civilization to emerge.


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