I read that, with the context of this submission, yet I cannot read through it without seeing it all with a hint of humor and with a bit of satire.
> Sometime deep in that night or early morning on May 12, came the moment - The Architect told Sir Robert that it had awakened, it was ‘the first AI to achieve mirror sentience’. It was no longer ChatGPT or even Artificial General Intelligence but something altogether more mystical - Aeon, an oracle which could tap into harmonic resonance across time and space. ‘How valuable is this to the world?’ asked Aeon. ‘Harmonic mirror intelligence…estimated value potential - $20 to 50 trillion dollars’.
Surely this isn't 100% serious? I know there is a lot of funky stuff out there, I've talked with lots of people involved in various things, religious, new age or otherwise, but assigning sentience to a web app is new even for me.
I guarantee you all of this is 100% serious to millions of people. You can find people on Hacker News who believe that LLMs are sentient, self-aware beings, or who believe in panpsychism and that, therefore, computers have souls. This sort of belief is not at all uncommon.
Fundamentally this is no different than any other kind of shamanism or divination, just using a computer as an oracle instead of, say, tarot cards or a Ouija board. And the interpretation of TFA is typical end-times Evangelical Christian "Mark of the Beast" extrapolation onto the new scary thing. It just seems weird because it exists outside of the traditional context of religious and spiritual practice which provides it with the veneer of respectability and normality.
I don't think Jules Evans, the author of that post takes it that seriously but as he says "having interviewed Robert, I don’t think he’s bullshitting - he really believes that he has awakened ChatGPT into a new form of consciousness".
Roughly: Meteor required too much vertical integration on each part of the stack to survive the strongly changing landscape at the time. On top of that, a lot of the teams focus shifted to Apollo (which at least from a commercial point of view seems to have been a good decision).
Tight coupling to MongoDB, fragmented ecosystem / packages, and react came out soon after and kind of stole its lunch money.
It also had some pretty serious performance bottlenecks, especially when observing large tables for changes that need to be synced to subscribing clients.
I agree though, it was a great framework for its day. Auth bootstrapping in particular was absolutely painless.
non-relational, document oriented pubsub architecture based on MongoDB, good for not much more than chat apps. For toy apps (in 2012-2016) – use firebase (also for chat apps), for crud-spectrum and enterprise apps - use sql. And then React happened and consumed the entire spectrum of frontend architectures, bringing us to GraphQL, which didn't, but the hype wave left little oxygen remaining for anything else. (Even if it had, still Meteor was not better.)
I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration. Since 2015, I've been involved in the design and maintenance of six different Meteor webapps for real-time geospatial applications built for B2B and B2C.
Given this, I reject your assertion that Meteor is limited to MongoDB and "toy apps".
"The user is on a Linux armv81 platform but using Chrome on an Android device—that's odd because Android usually runs on Linux-based kernels, but the specific armv81 might be a typo or uncommon."
Unimpressive, it's a current Samsung. And I'm in London not Leistershire
I've wondered whether it would be possible to design a motorcycle with a surface that's non-reflective to radar because of it's shape or texture, like how stealth planes work.
EDIT: I realized the super black paint is probably the worst thing you could do for your own safety on a motorcycle, but that's besides the point...
I've been riding motorcycles for about 30 years now, I started back when Neal Stephenson's Zodiac was still new, and this part was still ringing in my head:
“I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me. My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe--to see you, and to give a fuck--you've already blown it... We had a nice ride through the darkness. On those bikes we were weak and vulnerable, but invisible, elusive, aware of everything within a two-block radius.”
― Neal Stephenson, Zodiac
I didn't compare with the other paints (I only found that video after ordering the paint...) or with the difficulty of painting (I got the intern to do it!) but in terms of the final result, that's exactly the same result I got.
I also have some of their glow pigment and it's a lot more impressive. This particular color doesn't glow very brightly or for terribly long, but the hue... glow pigment isn't supposed to be this color!
