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And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Barron about it

Right now there’s probably someone making killer music and posting to YT or peertube with like 3 views because everyone just accepts the algo slop and no one looks for the gems

Respectfully, i think this is the wrong conclusion. There are more sophisticated listeners today than there have ever been and sub-genre communities are great at spotting new gems. But while the number of listeners grew linearly, the number of bands has grown exponentially, making discoverability very difficult to achieve. That’s not anyone’s fault unless you consider musicians are at fault for creating so many good bands.

I can’t speculate to the motivations of random internet users but yeah, committing your identity to a catastrophe of any kind is some serious dysfunction. It’s like they have just discovered that the universe is unfair so their naivety demands that it leads to cosmic retribution.

Funny, I would propose the exact opposite. OpenAI is doomed, they are committed to spending more money than they can ever hope to earn, and already have a hard time raising anything covering their operating expenses, let alone the training of new innovative models. Their life will only keep getting harder and they’ll never have it as good as they did in 2023.

On the other hand, alternative models get better every day and have tokens that cost a fraction of those from large model makers. Some of what you call ChatGPT “wrappers” actually have solid and healthy business models and are burning reasonable amounts of cash (reasonable for VC backed businesses anyway). They’ll just switch to cheaper models when price pressure tells them to and they’ll be fine.

That is Apex internet thank you my good sir

As I commented elsewhere, a lot of people in our generation are masking deep seated suicidal fantasies and convincing themselves that they are a valid response to the world around them. That’s obviously not good for anybody and makes them just as volatile as the other death cults currently in existence.

It definitely is. It’s a mental health problem, not a valid environmental or political take.

He’s pretty explicit in that regard. He even added an interesting point at the start of the article : most people he knows who actually work with AI and know shit about it are not boosters. It’s an important distinction that Ed doesn’t ignore.

He is against the over hype of “AGI” and skeptical of the hundreds of billions that have been poured into it for sinister reasons. He’s not denying that the tech has uses, but rather confronting the value of those uses with their actual, non subsidized cost.

Back when I lived in Mexico there was this restaurant (I think the name was califa or something) who made “costra”. Basically they took the meat they’d normally put in a taco, but mixed it with a lot of cheese and grilled that on the comal until it developed a crust (costra in Spanish). It was so fucking good 🤌

It’s a valid translation overall, it just missed this colloquialism

Just a nitpick, “jeu de mort” would never be translated as “death game”. In this context “de mort” would be an intensifier like “fucking” or “damned”.

You’d need a tremendous amount of matter (I’d guess much more than 1 Jupiter mass) to significantly protect the solar system from the outside. But then that mass would probably get pulled in by the sun. The reason the outer solar system remains outer is because it is mostly empty.

I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?

Then I’m not sure I’m getting your point. She was popular enough to win the general vote, so in that sense she was the right candidate. But she lost to the swing states, do you think Bernie would have fared better in that regard?

You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time

Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(

While I would have loved a Bernie presidency, I don’t think he would have had as much popular appeal. Keep in mind she beat the other guy by 2% of the votes and lost to the electoral college system.

That’s a loss on strategy, but definitely not an unpopular candidate choice.

I mean it’s a speculation game at this point but I’m honestly not sure he could have won in 2016.

Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There’s no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.

Financially it’s a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.

It’s been obvious, since early 2025, that they are chasing the next step change but not getting any closer to it. OpenAI is in a catastrophic financial position and it’s hard to imagine a scenario where it gets any better.

Ironically, I think only AGI could get them out of this pickle, but even they are starting to realize it’s not around the corner.