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It's none of those.

There is not, and never was, any reasonable belief or expectation that there was any path to resembling an actual currency. The entire market is shitty gambling hoping you're the one who times their sale correctly.

IDK what you want to call it.

It's silly to get mad at the kid for selling a shitty meme coin people were willing to pay for when that's the whole reason they exist.

There's a big difference between "not correlated" and "inversely related" though. The latter is very deliberately saying that good scores are a bad thing.

I thought the finale was really cool.

None of the ones that actually work resemble intelligence. They're basic language skills by a tool that has no path to anything that has anything in common with intelligence. There's plenty you can do algorithmically if you're willing to lose a lot of money for every individual usage.

And again, several of them are egregious lies about shit that is actually worse than nothing.

Mostly hyping up very simple things?

LLMs don't add anything vs actively scanning for a handful of basic rules and link scanning. Anything referencing a bank that isn't on a whitelist of legitimate bank domains in a given country would likely be more effective.

The language stuff is the only parts they're actually good at.

Chatbots are genuine dogshit, PDF to podcast is genuine dogshit, poetry is genuine dogshit.

lol the entire hope is basically "infinite scaling" despite being way past diminishing returns multiple orders of magnitude ago.

In aggregate, though, and on average, they’re usually right. It’s not impossible that the tech industry’s planned quarter-trillion dollars of spending on infrastructure to support AI next year will never pay off. But it is a signal that they have already seen something real.

The market is incredibly irrational and massive bubbles happen all the time.

The number of users when all the search engines are forcibly injecting it in every search (and hemorrhaging money to do it)? Just as dumb.

If you can remove the rights of people you don't like, others can do the same to you.

If it's not universal it cannot be a right. They're mutually exclusive.

The core premise of a right is that it applies regardless of who you are.

It's not "the right to free speech unless we don't like what you say", it's not "the right to due process unless the crime you're accused of is really bad", etc.

Protecting the rights of bad people equally with good ones is what they stand for. Rights aren't conditional.

Beautiful username for this post.

My argument is that that is not the case.

There are many systems in nature that have randomness fundamentally built in. You can model the broad strokes, but the low level details are inherently unpredictable because random processes are involved at the low level. You can predict the general pattern of airflow over a jet wing, but it's not a lack of input resolution that makes it impossible to project the path of a specific molecule.

I'm not convinced you can ever get that resolution. There's a big difference between modeling the broad trends and trying to remove the uncertainty from a process that's inherently probabilistic.

There is no actual logic to having time windows to access confiscated devices that are not ever going to be returned. Anything that's not technology is completely unaffected by that silliness.

There's no world where a legally confiscated physical object is held to the same standard.

I don't see the issue here.

The seizure of the devices happened with appropriate warrants, the actual search was done with appropriate warrants, there's apparently some weird time limit on the search warrant on a seized device, and some of the maintenance involved took place outside that weird time restriction.

The actual hacking of the device and the actual search of the contents of the device were with a warrant.

What they did was perfect, and there's no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.

But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.

But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.

I can't comment on "space fantasy" specifically, but I like when fantasy builds complex science and engineering on top of their magic. The magic in something like the Stormlight Archive is compelling in its own right, but it's massively enhanced by seeing how the ancient civilizations leveraged it to build advanced societies, and how they invent new things using the lower level tools over the course of the story.

A 5% refund?

That's almost more disrespectful than nothing.