Definitely check out Wizard People, Dear Reader and his biography of Ulysses S Grant if you liked Washington.

There’s a reason that particular caricature exists and you react the way you do. Your response is a defense mechanism to keep your community safe. The dude is in the pedo-uncanny valley.

I appreciate how this newsletter/article does a solid job of highlighting some of the weird dealings we may be seeing that make these companies look more viable than they are (very much including these companies essentially subsidizing each other).

The big thing I keep coming back to is that there doesn’t seem to be a path to profitability for the LLMs. Chapo Trap House had an interview with Ed Zitron and he highlighted that some of the power users are pulling down over $50k in generation/prompt costs while spending $20 a month (or whatever, I’m spitballing the numbers).

Some may be closer to break even, but openAI is tens of billions in the hole (something like 13.5 billion net loss in the first half of the year alone).

Sure, they could triple prices but then you lose a percentage of customers etc etc.

Got a solid antivirus setup then?

The game won’t play and let me recapture the joys of youth. Oh god, I’m stuck being big.

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“Cavern of the Evil Wizard” from the movie Big. It looked so cool to me as a child.

Michelob Ultra is a bread La Croix.

Cheating to get around parts that aren’t fun for you is just valuing your time. I’ll cheat any way that improves the fun of the game. Sometimes, that’s extra ammo or money or materials I don’t want to grind for.

That said, my favorite games are still Souls games and the only “cheats” I like there are ones that make the game harder.

It’s always (well, since 1937 or 1970, depending on how you wanna look at it) been federally illegal. Several states are actively breaking federal law and allow for sales in various forms. They’ve basically been left alone, but at any point the federal government could kick in the door of every “legal” Cannabis shop.

I believe the thing they’re doing now is closing a loophole around growing low-THC plants.

Sure. We already do that some. But we do the same basic thing around not believing rumors and that doesn’t obliviate the harm they do.

Putting aside the issue of how many people want the rumor to be true or the deep fakes to be real, people expending effort to say/produce something harmful or uncomfortable is hurtful to the subject/victim. The idea that people could believe it is hurtful.

This is all exacerbated with young people because their brains are wired to care more about peer socialization and perception than adult brains.

Even things we know aren’t true damage our reputations and perceptions. I know JD Vance didn’t fuck a couch, but it’s one of the first things that comes to mind when he’s mentioned.

Education about the reality of AI generated nudes isn’t a bad thing (and, like, every teen already knows this is a thing, anyway), but that doesn’t stop the harm for the subject due to the association with the material.

Does a dragon not need its golden hoard?

That is what I meant.

Have taught Au/ADHD kids who range from one to five. I’m an ADHD one, but one of my favorite students is a total ADHD five.

Seems like it’s all over the place.

Plus, they may be able to come in slightly cheaper on volume discounts on components.

I’ve always built my on PCs, but there are times when the whims of the market have made pre-builts cheaper.

And capitalism is making many wait to have kids until they’re older!

Read it? Imagine writing it.

Yep! And steering wheel.

But it kills my battery so fast. I just wear a sweater when I drive in the cold.