My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like the "screen-free" nature of dadbot better.

Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn't last much longer because dadbot gets tired.

Sounds like it could devolve similarly to what's being done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8

I sometimes try with my children. Having one on my shoulder and pulling either the left or the right ear to tell me where to go. The way home from kindergarten can then take a while, depending on how attentive they are. Of course, parent stumbling into hedges makes for a good laugh, so that may also sometimes be intentional.

The first (Flash) version is playable here: https://dagobah.net/flash/light-bot.swf

It has a pretty steep learning curve if you're not experienced with building a program step-by-step from another perspective and you're only able to run it. The mobile version is a lot more gentle and has more content, but I think less challenging and less fun.

Yeah she and I prefer the flash version too.

The music is great, and sitting together at a computer is a better collaborating experience than the mobile app.

Unless you're on a roadtrip.

Sounds great. I was playing a lot of Exapunks[1] when my son was little and we started playing a game in real life where I would use the Exapunks commands to tell him what to do. Like

LINK HALLWAY GRAB BALL LINK BEDROOM DROP BALL

etc... Then he would tell me what to do. It was fun.

1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

I went to Olin and took a class from Allen Downey. Highly recommended

I think LexClips are a little better because they tend to have less Lex and more guest than the full interview.

But I’d prefer if he was edited out completely.

Errol Morris had some pretty good interview documentaries where almost all interviewer questions are edited out. It’s a great format.

Do you work at Apple?

The man/woman color inversion one was the most impressive to me. On the rotations, I can rotate in my mind and see the other view… but I find it very hard to color invert mentally

That is amazing, here's the link for anyone interested (there's a lot of images on that page)

https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/static/videos/grid...

For me it's the reverse: the color inversions feel hardly more impressive than the morph animations that were all the rage in the 1990, because while I certainly understand how straight-forward color inversion is on the level of pixel data, I still can't "see" that simplicity. It hardly looks any different than an alpha blend with no relation at all.

The rotations on the other hand, wow! It is perfectly visible how the pixels don't change. You can physically rotate the screen and the image "changes". I could not think of a better illustration of how diffusion model images are not just echoes of preexisting images (they certainly are), but solutions to the problem of "find a set of pixels that will match the description of {prompt}". Or in this case, "that will match {A} when oriented this way and {B} when oriented that way".

I can see the woman when the man is shown if I look for it, but not vice versa, for whatever reason.

I guess with Nazis, there is a chance that a revolt eventually happens and ends their reign. It’s less clear how humans come back from being paperclipped, so maybe that’s his rationale. But it’s a foolish question because of the antisemitism that looms in any discussion of nazis.

I prefer this variant of the question:

Would you rather all of humanity suffer in eternal Hell, or cease to exist?

That’s a pretty clear one for me.

I’ll take an Irish Car Bomb please.

What’s the minimal program that actually draws something? I’m just getting black so far.

Edit: ah, it’s F

Or ] if you want to make a red screen ;-)

Completely agree! The antagonists also dig tunnels and otherwise subvert city infrastructure. I feel like it was a perfect example of what the author talked about.

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” —- Thoreau