I'm reminded of an old saying: "The market can afford to remain irrational longer than you can afford to remain solvent."
I think we're going to get a new spin on this old line. The market *will* remain irrational, while *we* (the public, collectively and individually) go insolvent. But the finance sector and the billionaires will be kept whole, which is what they and their government (because it sure doesn't belong to us) want.
"Amazing but oversold" might well sum up the whole LLM-era.
How much of that revenue is from OpenAI and other LLM companies?
Companies like Flock are the cockroaches of our communities.
Look, there's no reason to impugn cockroaches like that.
At least we can count on the stock market to be honest and based on reality!
I had an LG slide-style phone with a physical keyboard, and if I could get something with that same form factor that would work (and had a decent camera) today, I would happily carry and use it. Sliders were perfect, and I'm still sad there's no current equivalent.
Holmes *was* an outlier, in that she defrauded and embarrassed members of the ruling elite, and thus was punished for her fraud and lies. Had she done the same thing but picked her victims better, she'd have a successful and lucrative career.
>most of which isn't Mozilla's fault
It is completely the Mozilla foundation's choice to keep chasing unicorns and rainbows rather than the browser their users want.
"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on..."
but I would not mind if everyone involved in this case as litigants and their reps dies an unpleasant death.
Won't solve the basic problem of modern capitalism's complete subversion of democracy, but it might slow it down a bit.
Drone state of the art puts us closer to such a world every day.
While "the government is very stupid" shouldn't be ruled out, given pattern and practice of government in general, and this government in particular, "Missing nuclear scientists! National Security!" seems like it could serve as legal cover for a wide range of possible abuses.
When a random jihadist throws a firebomb at your house, that's Arson. When a random jihadist throws a firebomb at a billionaire's house, that's Attempted Murder.
...a lot of people simultaneously believe that AI doesn't work and that it's replacing human jobs.
These are not incompatible positions if you believe that management is foolish, malicious, or both.
A dummy load and some chemistry to use oxygen would do the same job with zero human risk. If they're not putting boots on the Moon, they shouldn't have their asses in the rocket.
The Artemis I unmanned mission flew in 2022. The Apollo Program followed a similar progression to test things in succession.
Which Apollo misson was was "fly the talking meat by the Moon in a can"? Apollo 7 was a flight test in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and returned to Earth. Apollo 9 was a Lunar Module test in Earth orbit. Apollo 10 was a full dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. The only Apollo mission that just sent a crew and their ship around the Moon and back was Apollo 13... and even they had a perform a - heroic under the circumstances - maneuver to put it back on the free return trajectory.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
