Then again, different people’s minds work very differently. My verbal SAT was low 790’s, yet some of my best thinking is purely kinesthetic.

Different people’s minds work very differently. More differently than most people imagine.

I was reading the parent and thinking the same thing - I can't do that. There's no "voice" in my head like some people describe. If I want to model speaking like a mock conversation, I have to write it or ... speak it, even silently, to convert from the visuals that are my thought.

As an aside, I end up having to organize certain types of thoughts through speaking, which requires some adaptations and limiting functions :-)

Agreed. I have to write stuff down, with a pen, on paper, for this to work. Typing into a machine works sort of, but not on the same level.

AI is currently a massive money sink. Yes or No?

There's a distinction.

- For the AI provider it is a massive money sink due to cost/revenue maths

- For the AI consumer it's not a massive money sink if you arrange things so your ongoing costs are lower than your savings

It isn't a simple yes or no overall, only per side of the fence.

Not for me, it means I don't have to hire an engineer right now.

Obviously yes. On evidence alone the path to profit doesn't exist for most of the massive capital sinks. A small number of players At best MAY return on investment, but in the cycle time capital needs a return, most are functionally incapable

AGI isn't happening. So, it's incremental improvements on LLM and Generative methods. Any advance which requires more tech inputs demands more capital. Any advance which requires less tech makes all the existing capex look stupid.

I have noticed that those that are the most optimistic about AI almost always talk in a future-tence.

It WILL do this, it COULD achieve that etc.

I think Ed Zitron challenged us all to talk to an AI booster without letting them use future tense.

It blocked me, because I was running an ad-blocker. Then I got around the block. Safari’s Reader mode is often useful.

I remember walking the last couple miles of the Garden State Parkway a week or two before it opened. Could a youngster do such a thing today?

After checking the Wikipedia page, I realized that I was only 10 or 11 at the time. Somehow I remembered it as having been older – high school age.

Actually, the product they should build is an ebike. They should buy Weel.[1]

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/614379/weel-evb-electric-concept-...

Note that the title is probably an allusion to Ray Bradbury’s collection “The Illustrated Man”.

And, before major purchases, check to make sure that private equity firm has not bought them.

First iPhone had no App Store: no third-party apps.