Going out of business, it ain't pretty. You take measures to increase revenue, but it inevitably makes the product worse or more expensive.

I agree it won't last long, but there is a "magical" or "high priesthood" aspect to it for now (or put more pragmatically - trade secrets). If it were just a matter of going through some set of well-defined steps, even hard ones like getting a PhD from Stanford, way too many people have done that for $10M pay packages to happen.

I guarantee you that a mid-level research scientist in AI from non-distinguished company is not making $500k per year in flat salary.

I actually think that's the way to go. There needs to be a law about whether AI is allowed to learn from content on the same terms as a living individual, or not. Then there also need to be technical means to enact whatever policy is legislated, which is here this Cloudflare technology could fit in.

I wouldn't say "from scratch." The Germans made a very significant investment in rocketry, and it's hard to argue we didn't exploit it, when Werner von Braun (a Nazi, and in fact officer in the SS) was the chief architect of the Saturn V.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history...

China is making progress. Between 2013 and 2022, particulate pollution in China declined by 41 percent. That is huge.

https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu...

Nobody else but the prison system can set the price of calls to the prison system, so they're milking it. (Oddly this was also true when I lived in the dorms at college, before cellphones).

I don't think its' a matter of taking it easy on the prisoners, it's mostly a matter of not highway robbing their loved ones, who haven't done anything wrong.

Fair enough, you have to wonder if the human body will even be relevant in 5000 years.

This seems like about the only way interstellar travel could actually work. Freeze-drying living people for 5000 years seems like a long shot. But would we engineer machines to last that long and construct people on arrival? Seems awfully long. Also, would they be fully human after being raised or constructed by robots?

I guess deep-freezing eggs and sperm would be easier.

This article echos a lot of your reasons

https://www.cinemablend.com/mo...

• It's Just Really Expensive To Take Your Kids To The Movies These Days, Especially For Something New
• Elio Is Going To Be On Disney+ In A Few Months, So I'm Not Surprised If People Wait It Out
• The Delay And Marketing Didn't Really Help The Movie
• It Feels Like Elio Is More Of An Animated Movie For Parents, Which Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing

The "just wait to stream it" part is not specific to this film, so questionable whether it explains the failure of this particular film. But still if Disney is hoping to make a whole bunch of money from this new money stream without impacting their legacy money streams at all, then they have another thing coming. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

It looks like this guy is the maestro of the Davinci Xi, which is the standard surgical robot

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2025/02/...

I had no idea how huge these things are.

https://aimis.com/assets/image...

They must have some really fancy attachments to get the dexterity (such as angle of approach) they would need. I can't imagine trying to change an oil filter shoved up behind a radiator with this...

Yep it sounds like they've gotten right up there with Oracle

They're still using VMWare, they just didn't pay for a new support license. The perpetual license they previously bought probably allows VMWare to audit compliance with it. So their choices may be, quickly re-engineer VMWare out of their systems, or bend over.

Yeah. "LLM users spent less time researching, exerted less effort..." from the summary could be restated as, "their productivity went up." Whether it's worth it to get more original insights would be heavily context-dependent.

It definitely will be rage porn. But conservatives have their beef with Facebook too, for labeling falsehoods and perhaps some censoring of posts during Covid? Not sure. But accusations of pro-Dem for sure.

I agree completely, on all counts.