The best time to stop taking Altman seriously was ten years ago.

The second best time is now.

If you want a bit of a deeper dive, Sean Carroll’s Mindscape gets into the science of aging and known workable remedies/treatments.

The good news is that Billionaires will not be living forever any time soon.

The bad news is that we’ve got a cellularly defined terminal limit and there’s nothing we can do to simply reset the clock. “Cloned Bodies” for animals are dysfunctional bordering on nightmarish. The human brain’s plasticity isn’t something you can renew with a pill or a potion. Blood Boys don’t work. There aren’t trivially replaceable components in the human body.

Is it power? These are delusions. They don’t affect reality.

Mostly, they appear to be coping for anxiety and stress. Trump’s MAGA is a way to convince conservatives that “the patriots are in control” when they’re plainly powerless. The Mueller She Wrote crowd needs to believe police exist for powerful people and it’s not all just punching down.

All these lies seem to exist and get regurgitated because the truth is too awful to contend with.

Great for Coding 101 in a language I’m rusty with or otherwise unfamiliar.

Absolutely useless when it comes time to optimize a complex series of functions or upgrade to a new version of the .NET library. All the “AI” you need is typically baked into Intellisense or some equivalent anyway. We’ve had code-assist/advice features for over a decade and its always been mid. All that’s changed is the branding.

That’s an incredibly curious reading of the Cold War. I’m going to run off and assume you thought the world economy was doing great in the 1980s except in the Soviet Bloc?

Ublock does such a good job at blocking the old janky torrent sites, especially compared to the increasingly aggressive and intrusive new shit.

To generate profit.

make russian lives as bad as possible

Wasn’t that the Shock Doctrine strategy from back in 1996? Anyone remember what followed?

Because then Russians would stop buying their phones.

Quite a few of the mods are severing alternative interests. The partisan subs are run by literal party staffers and think tanks. Lots of the big brand subs are run by marketing agencies. Reddit’s financial model is to sell these spaces. You don’t just have some random mega-fan running /r/Marvel. That’s a Disney staffer.

None of these guys are going anywhere.

I protested, they said, nope

Protesting on a site that’s fully automated their administration just means getting told “fuck you” twice.

There’s no real bureaucracy under the hood. It’s just “friend computer says you’re guilty” followed by “friend computer says you’re still guilty plus you had the gall to doubt friend computer’s immaculate wisdom”.

Reddit vacillates between operating as a clearing house for the most ugly, racist, reactionary propaganda currently in circulation and doing pogroms against the six subreddits that got popular posting current events about a new kind of genocide we invented.

I’m glad I left, but it’s hard not to look over my shoulder and notice they’re doing the same fascist bucket carrying from 2020 and 2016 and 2012 and 2008 and…

It’s not a Dem/Rep issue nearly so much as it is an Insider/Outsider issue.

“Cross us and your constituents will get a leak of your AI generated nudes” style intimidation. Great for getting rid of pesky populists and regulators and people who give a shit about climate change.

they stopped and asked themselves if people want and need a foldable?

Who wants a thin phone with a large screen? Nobody.

Tankie Phone

Neither Facebook nor Twitter claimed 6.5B unique users.

Empty Internet Theory is a clever joke, but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.

I’m confident you could unload the property for $4B easily enough. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-100/unique user amortized out over the life of the loan, which would be a steal via any other advertising medium.

Twitter still has real value. Hundreds of millions of people still use it, even in its deplorable state. And under new management, I’m confident people would flood back in.

Gruesome Newsome’s veto pen is to the right of Reagan’s.

How exactly do LLMs do that?

If you hook an LLM up as an interface replacement for a manual/analog Power Plant interface and start asking the translator to intuit decisions based on fuzzy inputs, you can create a cascade of errors that result in grid failure.

If you’ve given an LLM’s pseudorandom output control over your electrical grid, no regulation will mitigate your stupidity.

This rule would prevent a business or public regulator from doing such a thing without proving out safeguards.

And the governor vetoed it.