I would mostly be confused based on my lack of any programming experience.

Gonna have to go the Bill and Ted route.

I’ll figure out what I need in the next 50 years and let him know there. Now the time traveler can just tell me whatever I want to have wanted to know.

I understand your frustration. It seems the two answers are “try therapy” and practice controlling your thoughts in the moment. Which can be annoying when you’ve already been doing both. I don’t have any better answers unfortunately.

You listed a lot of things that were foreshadowed largely in the books. I felt that the dialogue just about immediately fell off as soon as they ran out of book. Everyone felt very much on their own “tracks” and did not veer past that starting immediately with how they dealt with Jon just…coming back at the start of the season. Characters started teleporting wherever they needed to be, and episodes started feeling a lot more like a poor combination of big budget action scenes and desperate attempts to connect those by having two characters talk at each other alone in a room.

I feel like Jaime’s failed redemption arc was missing something (maybe a couple books worth of further development and foreshadowing?) and the whole Bran debacle felt like it was really supposed to be something and they just “kind of forgot” to ever actually set it up.

I think there are some good reasons GRRM has had such trouble finishing the series and the show runners just never even noticed and steamrolled straight to the end.

I’d say more than that. I don’t think anyone is that close to AGI…yet

A calculator does most of it too, but this is a LLM that can do lots of other things also, which is a big piece of the “general” part of AGI.

Richard Feynman said “You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

We are close to a point where a computer that can hold all the problems in its “head” can test all of them against all of the tricks. I don’t know what math problems that starts to solve but I bet a few of them would be applicable to cryptology.

But then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about and just making bold guesses based on close to no information.

Of course there is zero way each of them will find that many people, let alone the levels below that. It’s a scam that benefits those higher up, and the ones lower will likely not receive anything.

And part of the scam is to tell people that there’s still time to be one of the early higher ups scamming other people!

What would really tie it together is the transition to the next day/murder investigation scene showing it drop down to room temperature.

Now, if I was trying to destroy financial records, I could think of worse ways than for them to “accidentally” be shipped to an employee and “lost.” Even better if the employee actually destroys them for me.

It kind of sounds like the sort of antics a company about to go under and unable to pay debtors/taxes might do…

Yes, I would drink even more until I physically couldn’t anymore. Very quirky.

All of their creativity goes into the mental gymnastics instead of something good or useful.

If ‘anybody’ does anything similar to tracing, copy&pasting or even sampling a fraction of another person’s imagery or written work, that anybody is violating copyright.

Ok, but tracing is literally a part of the human learning process. If you trace a work and sell it as your own that’s bad. If you trace a work to learn about the style and let that influence your future works that is what every artist already does.

The artistic process isn’t copyrighted, only the final result. The exact same standards can apply to AI generated work as already do to anything human generated.

I take it we don’t use the phrase “good writers borrow, great writers steal” in this day and age…

There’s a thing that cult leaders often do where they make increasingly stricter demands on their followers, it reduces the number of members, but the one who remain are much more easily controlled (because they self selected for that trait. I think something similar is part of the picture for these companies. The people who simply do as they are told and come back (as opposed to looking for new jobs) are more easily controlled by the company.

Also you can’t always assume that just because a company is really big it’s always making the most best, always correct choices. Like GE managed with “vitality curves.”

You should look for an archive (dot) today that can get you around those paywalls.

I have the easiest DIY sauce you can get:

• 28 oz can of tomatoes (either whole or diced, ived used both)

• 1 onion cut in half

• 1/2 stick of butter

You put them all in a sauce pan on medium heat until it looks like sauce.

Is this much different that the piles of prewritten obituaries news outlets have for pretty much every person they would report dying?