throwawayoldie

If I were Jensen Huang, the first thing I'd do...well, the _first_ thing I'd do is ditch the silly leather jacket and dress like an adult. But the first thing I'd do with Nvidia is make sure the company's product line is well diversified for the coming AI winter.

An interesting point, I'll see if I can think up any counterexamples.

Given that Bangkok is the biggest city in the country, I'd expect costs and wages to both be higher than the national average--though probably, to be fair, not _this_ much higher.

To paraphrase The Princess Bride, "Won't work, I know too many tech people."

...note to self, move to Bangkok.

I always heard it as "The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time." But yeah.

My theory is that this world is actually some other world's hell.

Unfortunately for all of us, it turns out that cyberpunk dystopias are a lot more fun to read about than to live in.

In that case, it'll only take 8 years.

"One of the most important patterns of conservative message-making is projection. Projection is a psychological notion; it roughly means attacking someone by falsely claiming that they are attacking you. Conservative strategists engage in projection constantly."

Source: " What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?", by Philip E. Agre. (https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/conservatism.html)

> It's a bubble if the tech or audience wasn't there and capabilities weren't improving weekly.

But...is it and are they? Gen AI boosters tend to make assertions like this as if they're unassailable facts, but never seem interested in backing them up. I guess it's easier than thinking.

Funny how that happens.

In theory.

And yet have produced nothing of value for society.

And the last episode came out almost 20 years ago, based on things David Simon had heard about in the years before that.

Well, if a fictional drama said so...

Except even more egregious, because if your GM car had a master key under the floor mat, you could just remove it yourself and throw it down a handy storm sewer.

Seems fake because it is.

It is if you want to get funding.

Not only is this so-called article slop, it breaks the back button. One more site to blacklist.

I'm gonna guess the answer is, because the Leader said so.

Nah, it's always "swordfish".

...shit, maybe this is the Great Filter. In which case, fellow humans, it's been nice knowing some of you, and best of luck to the rats or raccoons or cockroaches or whoever ends up taking our ecological niche.

And after all a company has never done anything foolish.

Spoken like a guy who didn't read the article and is just repeating the platitudes he's heard that make him feel good.

Still much less effective than spray paint liberally applied.

I imagine he was probably still pretty salty about the whole Gollancz/Homage to Catalonia thing.

As a longtime IF fan, I can basically guarantee there are.

"You're absolutely right, that's not a sentence you recognize..."

My takeaway is: LLMs are not great at text adventures, even when those text adventures are decades old and have multiple walkthroughs available on the Internet. Slow clap.