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Comment Re:Why do this in California? (Score 1) 75

Or maybe the law is a little more nuanced than a single sentence in a article? It might say things like:

"This chapter shall not apply to light and noncontact kickboxing and martial arts, and kickboxing and martial arts instruction and schools."

or

"An amateur contest or match does not include light contact karate, tae kwon do, judo, or any other light contact martial arts as approved by the commission and recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic sport."

I have doubts about their claim anyway, the "involving any human" doesn't seem like the rule to me given: "Any person, who, within this state, engages in, or instigates, aids, encourages, or does any act to further, a pugilistic contest, or fight, or ring or prize fight, or sparring or boxing exhibition, taking or to take place either within or without this state, **between two or more persons**, ..." but that's what courts are for.

Comment Re: mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 136

LLMS aren't a subset of frontier AI models. Frontier AI models are a subset of LLMs.

But there was no logic claim made, they just pointed out that if you don't know that frontier models are LLMs your thoughts on them are probably safely ignorable since they're likely wrong.

Comment Re:Translation: (Score 1) 94

Uber could squeeze their drivers once they got people onto uber and away from taxis. openAI's costs keep increasing faster than their revenue.

Uber burnt $18.2B over 7 years before making a profit. OpenAI burnt $28B in just 2025, and is expected to burn through $218B from 2026-2029, they aren't even vaguely comparable.

Comment Re:The evil genie (Score 1) 49

Aladdin was added to One thousand and One Nights in 1704, and doesn't have a malicious genie corrupting wishes - just granting them.

I suspect The Monkeys Paw from 1902 is the first (at least the first well known) variant of the wishes being granted but in a way that is bad for the wisher. Before that it was people wishing for stupid things and usually having to undo their wishes with their last wish - The Tale of the Three Wishes by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont maybe being the first of those in 1757 - though it was almost certainly taken from folk tales and older than that.
   

Comment Re:Stop blaming AI (Score 5, Interesting) 46

Oracle has poured money into AI. Into the datacenter side even, you know the side the hyperscalers who don't make a profit selling to the AI model companies who lose money selling the use of their models for less than it costs them to run them so those customers can also lose money.

It is everything to do with AI. The big silver lining of the whole AI bubble is that it just might destroy Oracle for the good of all mankind.

This is different than people using say Claude Code - spending $200 to get $2000 worth of compute is probably pretty good for as long as the subsidy chain lasts.

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