polygamous_bat

> whatever will come after transformers

I feel like this is a point that is not being talked about enough. Yes, OpenAI gave us GPT and DALL-E. But had sama and gdb remained there, would we have gotten anything new that is as groundbreaking as the original GPT and DALL-E, or would we have continued getting GPT-12 and DALL-E-19? Sure, iPhone 15 sells, but some may say Apple has stagnated since iPhone was released.

> What's wrong with mega payout. These guys created tons of value, they deserve their payout

I imagine there are two factions in OpenAI, one group (let’s call them the Ilya faction) are only motivated by AGI, while the other group (maybe Sam faction?) is interested in reaping the short term profits. So why is it wrong for Ilya to complain if he thinks Sam only wants short term profits and is hoodwinking the rest of the folks into believing he is also interested in AGI? Short term profit is not what he signed up for.

No one is more afraid of the free market and competition than the biggest capitalists. They are always trying to pull up the ladders behind them that helped them get where they are.

Because when people spend enough time rewriting things, rewrites becomes an end in itself rather than means to an end.

Ok, seems like your UI is not coming from a place of malice. However, pulling out an email input form at the final step is a very widespread UI dark pattern, so if nothing else please let people know that you will ask their email before they start interacting with your forms.

Yikes, after completed three steps I was asked for my email. No to your bait and switch, thanks!

I seem to have seen the opposite recently, possibly because the cost of living has gone up significantly faster than the wages for low-end jobs.

Why is that weird? You can have food, you can make food for yourself and your friend, but if you’re selling cooked food to strangers you need to have minimum standards of cleanliness etc.

Probably because they assume android users to be more technically capable, and thus think that they can use a browser to pay rather than using the App Store?

> it is a source of perverse pleasure to me at how hard the governments of the world are having to work to try and contain it.

Do you also take perverse pleasure at environmental pollution and how hard everyone has to work to contain it? What about road accidents?

> If you don't want to buy crypto, don't? I don't need a middle man for that.

I already don’t! But I also want my parents to be safe from the modern day equivalent of tech support scam, and good to see that some banks are being proactive about it.

What do you mean? It worked great for Adam Neumann! /s

It’s always funny and surprising when people say “It’s a dog eat dog world!” and sets up a dog eat dog world and then get surprised when a dog eats another dog.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Ganondorf?

They also said millions of people are trading NFTs every day or something, I don’t remember.

But without vastly overengineered projects, how would we find out about the massive geniuses like Elon Musk among us? /s

> Why not something like cloud seeding with sulfates?

Same reason we don’t reach for surgery every time anything in our body hurts: we want a least intrusive (for the planet) method rather than crazy ideas that we don’t know the consequence of. We know very well what happens when people use less carbon, there are plenty of countries on the world right now who are doing that. But no, if it’s not out of sci-fi it doesn’t tickle your fancy enough to try.

I would happily be lenient and throw in an extra clause: if you don’t want to do either, give people a full refund for wasting their time on your (now) garbage software.

> Smug, aloof, arrogant and condescending, honestly much more so than a typical white collar defendant.

At least he wasn’t playing League of Legends on the stand. That’s a small win, I guess?

In the US corporations are people with some extra provisions for robberies.

> It's not, unless there have been F1 cars in every suburb for last decade.

So like banning lead from paint? Wouldn’t someone think of the poor paint makers and landlords?

> There’s a reason why magazines ads are dying and being replaced by personalized ads. Advertising like that is widely inefficient.

Too bad, if your business model can’t make money without breaking laws and harming people’s rights, do you really deserve to stay in business?

> It’s as valid alternative as telling people to use horses instead of cars to reduce CO2 emissions. They both get from point A to B, right?

More like banning formula 1 cars from suburbs. People survived before without personalized ads, what will not survive is making 10-digits of profit every quarter and the associated butchery of our life and institutions in the pursuit of profit.

Why not both?

Because you can possibly change your address but not your race?

You don’t even need DNA data do to that, just use race statistics to increase or decrease your premium! Or do you think that would be illegal?

> So car insurances shouldn't account for past driving experience?

Do you understand why discriminating job applicants based on race/sex is illegal but not based on GPA?

One is something you were born with. Another is something that you did.

Cool, as long as you’re not tracking them everywhere else out in the world, shouldn’t be an issue.

Along with the fact that you have at least €X in disposable income every month.

And Netflix for another 20, and Disney plus for another 20, and peacock for another 20, and another 20 for the BigCo CEO retirement fund, and voila!

Recently started re-reading Discworld, and the Luggage is the first thing it reminded me of :) Almost forgot how delightful of a character Terry Prachett managed to conjure out of an (albeit sentient) “object”.

Fun fact, down 4% and then up 4% puts you slightly below where you were, since 4% of 100 is larger than 4% of 96.