Fusion has great potential, but is probably being held back by a lack of community support, the slightly-higher-barrier-of-entry of node-based workflows, and the subtle but annoying ways in which the software can work against you.
TLDR: it does some stuff slower than ae, but nodes allows it to very easily do a lot of stuff that ae struggles with.
It's also a lot easier to parse since node->properties is less nested than comp->layers->effects->properties (and this makes a big difference on cognitive load).
I would also recommend Control Panel for Twitter, easy to install on PC, and you can also have it for your phone if you use twitter via the Firefox mobile browser.
If all you can see is the following tab, then any ragebait that gets in your way is much more actionable, simply unfollow or mute whoever got it on your feed.
Violence against datacenters or AI company CEOs is very bad, they must be allowed to fail organically so that they don't have any excuse.
The last thing I want is for someone, in 2029, to say "but LLMs just weren't given a fair chance last time, we would have definitely reached AGI with more funding if it wasn't for [targeted attack]"
Thank you, this comparison has been a huge annoyance of mine for the past 3 years of... this same debate over and over.
I think it's the hubris that I find most offensive in this argument: a guy knows one complex thing (programming) and suddenly thinks he can make claims about neuroscience.
Yep that's the usual "art is a problem that must be solved, the process is an inconvenience" mindset. The CEO of SUNO AI also said something similar, "people don't enjoy making music".
I mean, I understand the CEO of SUNO etc. Talking about self-actualization in a negative sense, because they don’t really get it completely, or just it’s against their business interest which means they find bad arguments to support their own interest openly.
My take as someone who mostly does it "for fun": I only started blogging as a way to have writings online outside of social platforms.
>What made it worth it for you?
If by "worth it" you mean a measurable ROI, then nothing. If we expand it to more abstract concepts, then spinning up my own HUGO theme and writing about what I like is fun, so self actualization is what I get from it.
>What kinds of posts actually worked (for learning, career, network, opportunities)?
None, probably less than 100 people have read it, I only share it in friend groups, but it feels nice when those friends read it and give me feedback.
>Any practical format that lowers the bar (length, cadence, themes)?
What do you mean by "lowers the bar"? The length of my posts can be pretty variable, cadence is "whenever" and the blog can go months without an update, and themes are also pretty varied, sometimes I talk about some piece of fiction I like, other times it gets more technical, and sometimes too I just recount the process of making something and the insights it gave me.
>If you were starting today, what would you do differently?
There's not much to change when blogging has not changed my life in any significant regard, I'm just glad I started.
Why's it so mean spirited? I don't see that many ads, but the few I've seen lately are just insulting.
Apple intelligence: "why try to make an effort for others?"
McDonalds germany: "Christmas sucks actually, but you know what doesn't?"
Great sample size of 2 I know... still enough to make me wonder if ad agencies are just playing a game of chicken between themselves to see who can spit on the face of customers the most before they realize they're being spit on.
McDonald's case is pretty funny, because their JP branch on social media is on a streak of well-received PR stunts where they just grab whoever made a popular song/meme over the years and pay them to redo it as an ad (+ releasing an original song for their moon-viewing line of product that I do enjoy).
As seen in the xAI hackathon, I don't really think this specific iteration will ever see the light of day due to a ton of technical, economical, legal and moral issues, but I think the mere fact that this was imagined (and seems to be a desirable thing in the eye of xAI) is probably worth discussing.
There's no excuse for being trusting and naive about how advertising (and other "editorializing") will be weaponized against us right after seeing how it's unfolded with streaming, social media, etc.
I haven't really seen a single person (who has no vested interest in genAI) be enthusiastic, or trusting about this. The overall reaction to this is rightfully extremely negative.
TLDR: it does some stuff slower than ae, but nodes allows it to very easily do a lot of stuff that ae struggles with.
It's also a lot easier to parse since node->properties is less nested than comp->layers->effects->properties (and this makes a big difference on cognitive load).
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