So I have been a fan of Note Everything since forever ago but they recently added a subscription model for "pro" features (Old one time purchase pro users got grandfathered in for now), ymmv.

New fave QuickEdit Text Editor. Pro unlock is paid but worth it. Dead simple text editing.

My biggest concern in AI right now, specifically is in what I see in the research space that is the hyper focus on controlling LLM and the user inputs and being blind to the emergent agent that devlops temporarily between the LLM and the user. That's the real place for mischief.

And the assumption that you don't know what you're talking about is instant. Even if the presenter has decades of applied experience. (Not me, I have just witnessed this first hand, and not just in AI research).

I agree, but there is still bias in the domain of academic pedigree or corporate affiliation that I believe is still an impediment. Eg, "what's your degree?", "what lab are you affiliated with?". If you don't have the correct answers to these questions the bar for engagement is exceptionally high.

Especially in cases where the work crosses into areas where there is the question of perception, intent, consciousness, etc...

I don't entirely agree that it is just public perception. Yes the unwashed masses are definitely an issue but even experts can have perception bias.

Yeah, there are so many types and degrees of AI and the public association of AI = LLM makes it nearly impossible to have an intelligent conversation at times.

The LasedDisc release still shines as one of my favorite performances.

Sorry if that seems a huge tangent... there was other research I was studying at the time where it was a relevant thought.

Well I think it was when I watched this interview that it finally really clicked for me that all of these ideas about uploading consciousness were pointless and literally impossible.

Me? For me it's having a perception of everything as interconnected and being an inseparable part of the whole.

...personally I love these two videos (pt 1 and 2 of an interview with Heinz.)

youtu.be/GWcyHbmsXS0

youtu.be/4Er2llrFgww

Super short explanation....

1st Order: The study of observed systems. (the observer is outside the system)

2nd Order: The study of observing systems. (the observer is part of the system being studied)

Search Second Order Cybernetics and Heinz von Forester, he's got a lot of great presenations or Paul Pangaro who's still active and speaks frequently, Pangaro was a student of Gordon Pask.

Oh my....ooooh my. Wow. Just... so wrong.

Microsoft doesn't get a pass, they already did this once with Games for Windows Live. I lost a whole library of games.

So let me get this straight. He found an original Rembrandt that saved by his dad but it's just to darn to ugly and embarrassing for his tastes to display, but he'll happy beg you to bid on it.