That's total baloney. It hasn't sold more than just the N64, let aline N64 and Gamecube. And btw the N64 wasn't exactly a hit like the NES and SNES were.

(C) is the only one of those the AI companies are really concerned about -- they want to stave off model collapse for as long as possible. The problem is that AI generates so much content that the ratio of AI-generated data to human-generated data keeps rising, and sooner or later there simply won't be much human-generated data left to anything to consume. At that point they'll either have to figure out to ingest AI-generated content without causing degradation, or they'll have to accept that AIs have gotten as smart as they will ever get, and it's all downhill from there.

The police aren't going to find your stolen car with or without flock. That's not what they do.

They also don't stop thieves who steal catalytic converters.

There is definitely room to ask, "What exactly are the police accomplishing?"

It's some Greek mythology level curse that Linux made it to everywhere except the Desktop.

* T-800 pops out of nowhere and triple-taps each AI executive, Mozambique style *

(AGI) "Bullets are cheap when you've failed to realize the price of control."

The main 'regulation' they're fighting against, is Fiduciary Duty. Also known as the #1 reason NO AI company should be publicly traded. Ever.

Fiduciary has turned that Duty into a mind-warping clusterfuck of Greed consuming itself voraciously. Companies like that don't need to be subscribing to the Get Rich or Bankrupt Everyone Trying mantra of suck-cess.

Greed is either building the human battery bank or the phased plasma rifle in a 40-watt range. There's a third option, but Soylent Green is the only thing on the menu. So it's as much of a choice as the others.

(GenMe) The fuck, is a 'desktop'..

(China, 5 years ago) "And the best part is they'll never ban TikTok, because they'll get addicted to it too quickly. After that, we can manipulate and destroy from within."

We act like it takes psychic powers and seven crystal balls to figure out the mystery here..

Why does demand for bitcoin exist? No government can prevent payments in Bitcoin, that's why it was created. North Korea, Iran, hackers, Wikileaks, etc use Bitcoin. If you want to pay a toll to Iran to transit the strait of Hormuz, you can pay it in Bitcoin. I've heard you can use it to send money over the Russian border to avoid sanctions (I haven't tried).

Unlike all the humans who do the same thing, right? They're just going through the doors people left open.

Like Aaron Schwartz who went somewhere he shouldn't have been, installed equipment in the location he had no right to be in, then tried to hide his activities. Explain how that is any different than what these agents are doing.

Everything has a supply curve and a demand curve, including gold and bitcoin. Where the curves cross, that is the price. This is economics 101, which you never took.

Air is more "innately valuable" than gold, but you don't pay money to breathe.

At present, no. I've done a number of experiments with LLMs' capabilities with generating fiction, and while they are impressive for a beginner writer -- because fo the lack of spelling and grammar mistakes, they are nowhere near being able to write competent fiction.

This is because they don't model reader or character minds, they're based on word probabilities, like a predictive text keyboard. The engineers can compensate for for this to a surprising degree by feeding it data to recognize specific situations (e.g. the car wash is 100 feet from my driveway; should I drive or walk?). But this is turd-polishing.

AI technology practice isn't foundational. Critical thinking is. The closer AIs come to being able to do something that looks like them doing our thinking for us, the more capable we have to be at thinking without them. A human who can't outthink an AI adds nothing to an AI-human partnership.

This proposed school is a typical scheme by people who think because they have been educated, they understand how the education works. This is like thinking because you eat, you know how to cook. Project work in education is nothing new; it goes back well over a century. And in real life, you may get a STEM degree, but your real education in engineering comes from real life work. But that doesn't mean classes in calculus and physics don't do anything for you.

Or English classes, for that matter. Nobody doubts the value of project work in education, particularly *androgogy* -- the education of adults. But for *pedagogy* you have to establish foundational skills as the student matures intellectually and socially. Entering the high school years, a typical student has had *no* training in critical thinking skills. To develop critical thinking skills in an area, you need both general skills (epistemologicla literacy: research, location of orignial sources, dealing with conflicting evidence) and domain specific training in that area. In other words, *liberal arts* training is foundational in an AI-saturated world. "Liberal Arts" -- from *artes liberales*: literally the skills necessary to be a free person.

But I think these people have at least got the problem right: as AI drives the cost of elaborate projects down, we all have more projects in our future. Big, elaborate, faultlessly plausible-looking projects which may or may not have actual value.

Where they are completely wrong is the solution, which is to organize education around practicing using AI to make impressive projects. In a word of AI-enamored dunces this will put you at the head of a very sorry class of ignoramuses. The answer is to build fundamental cognitive and intellectual skils at every stage of a student's development. Project work is surely part of that, but it's just a technique, not a solution.

In a nutshell, the academy is training students to be the next step down the evolutionary scale from code monkeys. More like the pigeons B.F. Skinner trained in WW2 to peck at a screen, in an attempt to create a primitive guided missile without computers. They want to create "main characters"; and they'll probably create a few. There are always a few natural autodidacts in any moderately large group. But what they are set up is to produce a bunch of fragile, economically privileged narcissists trained to cover their lack of education with impressive-looking AI slop.

As compared to the $80K political indoctrination currently offered at other "elite" California universities churning out an army of activists instead of a viable future workforce?

Let's read the taxpayer-funded room for a minute or two. The impact and cost for the Rest of Us living outside of a grossly oversized campus bubble pumped full of political delusion and pot smoke, is Too Big To Fail at this point.

It doesn't matter what you can prove regarding ownership.

It only matters what you can afford to defend in court. And win.

At the speed of current litigation, your own defense lawyer would be coming back from their third Betelgeuse vacation by the time your court date would arrive to prove *you* in fact invented and own the rights to warp-speed travel.