"optimize box office revenue"

partly an unintended side effect of things like DEI, which disassociate money from production (ie JOBS) and associates money to social status like skin color, etc.

surprise!

the fix is redistribution of work over a broader section of the population. but none of y'all seem able to do the math.

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

equilibrium is the goal.

https://www.scry.llc/2025/01/2...

https://www.scry.llc/2022/01/1...

"5. Red Flags: I avoid jobs which gush about diversity and inclusion."

because it usually means I end up as the Diversity Cleanup janitor

"OH, HELL NO!!!!"

"I was reading this Slashdot article about overworked AIs when a thought that'd been germinating for months finally sprouted. Software is rapidly requiring the skills of a psychologist and you might want to avoid placing the wrong worker in a marginal position that they're not suited for.

We can apply this idea to LLMs, too..."

https://www.scry.llc/2026/05/1...

"think I'm getting huge value and speed from gemini... the key to me is that I work at mid to high levels of abstraction, work in small logical units, review the output, and let the tool worry about the grunt work. I work as a product designer, it works as a coder. My designs are improving significantly"

pretty much my experience. i ran into the indeterministic behavior/context window issues very early on and modified my methodology. i do small, discrete pieces, always add existing schemas/specs etc so Chat always has the right context and i dont try to patch stuff, i just erase and rebuild from scratch. Chat definitely gets twisted if you make revisions in the same context.

ChatGPT working better for me than Indian and Generation DEI co-workers. haha.

maybe it's because I'm almost 70 and wasn't taught brain rot in high school and college.

ChatGPT says this system is a bit underpowered to host what I'm doing with Ollama but it's a market signal about sovereign systems, as I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/2...

"The shift to usage-based billing — like GitHub Copilot above — confirms a fundamental reality: AI is becoming a metered resource instead of a flat-cost loss leader."

This, the disruption of the oil distribution network and the Canvas ransomware are examples of Law of Demeter asserting itself. Connecting everything to everywhere is just a bad idea.

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/1...

"This is another example of Sovereign Systems / Law of Demeter in motion. The post-WW2 world is largely a fiat fiction which is probably unravelling. I expect this Sovereignty trend to increase as fiat money sheds confidence, national goals diverge and AI transforms the information industry."

I'm developing AI lizards and AI mice for the AI cats to chase and eat.

Constant market demand !!!

https://www.scry.llc/2026/04/0...

"I began a "sovereign AI system" using Ollama in July of 2025. The core concept is a domain-constrained AI for specialized knowledge, resistant to external influence and memetic sabotage. The assumption that all knowledge should be accessible and malleable to all people everywhere is ridiculous"

there is now a significant market for locally-hosted AI in niche roles, AI that doesn't need to be AGI.

and yet there they go, leaving California along with their money . haha.

"Assume the declining cost of information (COI) has driven economic activity for fifty years. Then the stagnation or increase of COI could be disasterous for the economy. The preceding graph shows an inflection point in Internet user growth, implying that Internet growth is slowing and will soon stagnate."

https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

"Inflection Point: We could build a COI monitor by creating a weighted market basket of information-related costs and prices. Cost of microchip inputs versus their price. Cost of telecom inputs versus their price, etc. Monitor changes over time to throw a warning flag when the Information Revolution has peaked"

There's a graph of the theoretical point where the cost of information exceeds the price, which is probably the case at Samsung and with memory prices.

https://www.scry.llc/2025/01/2...

"UBI (universal basic income) is a dysfunctional attempt by rentier capitalists to resist equilibrium. A better fix is redistribution of remaining work across the entire workforce. Income stays bound to work and creates more potential customers. During the 1930s, governments mandated shorter workweeks and banned child labor which forced a return to equilibrium."

The correct answer is re-distribution of shrinking amount of work over the entire workforce, which creates new customers and keeps money bound to productivity instead of social status.

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

"The real cause of economic depressions is the mismatch between production time and consumption time which occurs gradually as productivity rises. Governments then create make-work jobs in a haphazard attempt to maintain consumption (equilibrium). Eventually, the impedance mismatch leads to collapse and a new system. We are probably on the verge of that change."