He surprisingly knowledgeable about AI, and started an AI-based film studio and sold it for $500M.

El Nino is more accurately Christ Child.

It's a reference to it being warmer water in the Christmas season.

Wasn't it so with power too?

We managed that as a society.

This is about "tech professional connections" being available. Not being the lowest speed sold.

This isn't a conservative vs non conservative thing. That would be cutting the funding.

This is "let's give government money to bad solutions instead of good ones". That's neither conservative or not. It is currupt and/or inefficient.

I had rock solid dialup connections in the 197xx area.

They're already competitors and Netflix has more streaming time than YouTube.

Netflix has a larger share of online streaming hours than YouTube.

Neither is a monopoly in the streaming and I don't think this would count as google leveraging search (where they definitely are a monopoly).

Aside from carrier level NAT 5g internet thwomped Xfinity for quality in my neighborhood (this may have changed now that there's competition).

My choices (at the low end)were:
  200/6 cable $75
75/50 5g $50

These were observed speed. The 5g was sold as 150/50 and cable 300/6. To get acceptable upload speeds to do remote work with cable was $185/month (I forget if that was 25 or 50).

Verizon ran fiber and now I'm paying $50 for 300/300 and getting pretty close.

Xfinity is now offering reasonable plans for $50 also, not sure if that's because of fiber or 5g. It could be either.

That's why I'll never get a modern car that checks my attention.

Makes it hard to change my CDs on the fly.

I imagine my software that simply returns "not a shop lifter" would have a similar accuracy rate.

Because some people won't pay $120 for a game.

They sell it full price new, then when the hype of new has passed they discount it for people that are more frugal.

Since $60 is better than $0 they can make more money overall. They probably have sales data to support this (or at least Steam does, since they keep doing pretty deep discounts for their sales).

An LLM is just a stack of Transformer layers - they are great at what they do - prediction - but that is all they are built to do.

Humans are not just intelligent predictors. As a social species we have also evolved to (mostly) peacefully co-exist and co-operate, and a lot of our intelligence seems in fact to be collective intelligence.

If we want LLMs to behave in more human ways, then we need to make them more brain like, and start adding all the extra moving parts that evolution has equipped ourselves with.

Yeah - makes no sense to me either, but notable that this "you'll all be on UBI (government welfare)" is the best outcome he can think of.

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)'s "Machines of Loving Grace" was the first of these, and if effect explains why others like Altman and Zuckerberg are chiming in.

Amodei's prediction:

1) AI will take ALL the jobs

2) Since people won't have any jobs, the government will have to provide UBI (universal basic income), aka food stamps

This is the most positive spin Amodei can put on the future that he is rushing to create, and not surprisingly people are not happy. The public increasingly see AI as an unwelcome technology that will create more problems than positive benefit.

This is at least part, a large part, of the reason that others like Altman and Zuckerberg are coming out with their own spin on how wonderful the AI future will be - because they realize public perception is massively against them (and also they are a bunch of arrogant pricks who think they are creating god, and are entitled to tell us how grateful we should be for it).