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Regarding the PS3 specifically, that was the breaking point for subsidizing because it ended up being famously and heavily used for compute clusters. We see the same effects today where any chip useful for high end gaming is also useful for AI.

> a typical example being the $20 coffee makers which you'll end up paying way more for than a decent one due to the fact they just constantly break.

I chuckled a bit realizing that you probably meant a decent coffee maker to cost far less than what I think a “decent” one does. Took me a moment to shake “you could buy a $20 machine every couple years for decades before you break even.”

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the barriers to entry as an example. An effective anti-monopoly strategy needs different tools at different times.

It is, indeed, for some people. It's a core part of why GLP-1 drugs work wonders for some people. Shutting up the "little fat person constantly telling your brain it needs food" is liberating if you have those urges.

Came here to see if anyone was discussing the infographics, but oddly enough because I found them incredibly distracting and in that zone of "pretty to look at but taking too long to comprehend well, if at all". To each their own!

You could probably even power a time machine without needing plutonium.

Many batteries are sealed specifically for this reason.

That's a lot of extrapolation that's incorrect. All I said was I've found some ads recently that were actually useful to me. I don't want to seek out ads, nor do I want to see them. Usefulness does not imply desirability. Think of it like "I don't want to drive in traffic, but hey, there are some funny billboards along the way. I wish they'd just take down all the billboards, but at least some of them were funny if I'm forced to see them."

That's fair. My point was if you're trying to utilize a church for finding dates/marriage, you shouldn't go into it thinking you or they will change later despite not "having faith" now.

Love the idea, but in practicality I'd want to see a reproducible example that end users can't just take a description of the skill and throw it at an LLM to get most of the way there for free.

You'd also need to prove to a buyer that an LLM isn't already better at producing these skills from scratch. That's debatable per recent commentary from those at the cutting edge of developing harnesses and models.

Personally I suspect the value of any such skills rapidly decreases over the course of days/weeks once any marketplace signals the ones that are popular.

From a convenience factor, sure, but both effectively turn a death sentence into a solved problem. I believe GP was pointing out that we should prioritize funding for the existing solution until the more convenient one is available.

> If you don't know where to start, a Church is a great place to start.

Please only do this if you believe (or are willing to explore or at least quickly reject and leave) what the church is teaching.

> Nothing is enough.

Words to live by!

I assume GP meant exactly this (the people designing and writing good code are expensive).

Ask it to do so, would love to know your results.

> I think the general expectation was that blocking exports to China would result in companies there building their own cards competing with NVIDIA.

In the long run, perhaps, but it's a lot faster to scale up the capacity and usage of existing hardware/datacenters/grid, and even add new capacity to those, than it is to develop brand new GPU hardware and the fabrication of it.

The catch there is I don’t look for this stuff, as it isn’t a priority. I am happier not pursuing what advertisers want to sell me, as my time is limited. I imagine many folks are the same, based on it being a core problem advertising tries to solve for businesses.

I despise advertising, but anecdotally, I can think of three ads in the past week that informed me about products I didn’t know existed but would enjoy. I also learned about multiple new games releasing, sporting events that were happening, etc. The claim that ads are not at all informative is incorrect.

That being said, I also block as many ads as possible from my life, so the few I actively notice tend to be more noticeable.

Accomplishments are what we make of them. Every person to ever live accomplishes nothing at the end, and everything in passing.

Service's life story is quite the read, and lovely context IMHO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service

Do you have some examples? I love to explore such things.

> I struggle to understand so much hostility to this approach.

It's going to be really rough for a lot of folks as machines get better and better at domains that the human brain was exclusively useful for. I tend to view the hostility as a mix of both "unless we have proof this could all be hokum" and "we're going to lose a lot of what we consider makes humans amazing".

Compassion is going to be very, very important in the next few years. We're going to hurt, both internally and externally.

Aerobiz? I had forgotten about that one, such an awesome game. Rented it from Blockbuster many times.

More related to the EU's movement away from foreign-hosted infrastructure.

Nope that's not it for me, but appreciate the discussion!

Very little of lifestyle products is about need. Folks will open their wallets for some combination of personal wants, exclusivity (or the illusion of it), or even something as simple as a coffee table discussion piece.

These sorts of "collectible clones" are pretty popular at the moment. A big part of it is nostalgia.

I believe GP’s point is India is the place a company would highlight cricket scores above other marketing lines.

Have you also run into the attention deficit effect of all these short forms of media? Overriding my brain's desire to put a book down after a couple pages is certainly not my favorite pastime.

There are many great quotes by Nintendo folks about this approach. One of my favorites:

> I like to think of it like buying a car. Admit it. Your left brain looks at a vehicle in terms of the numbers. What's the horsepower? The towing capacity? The 0-60? That's our competitor's approach. But your right brain is different. There's only one question out there: sitting behind the wheel, where will this baby take me? In other words, do you want to go just a little bit faster, down the same streets you've always driven, or down a new road, to places you've never seen before? That's the difference with Nintendo DS.

What did it excel at that hit the right notes for you?