I know someone who in the 1980’s/90’s used to run a society for the abolishment of TV because he saw it as the worst things that could have happened to society. Nowadays he is absolutely beached on the shores of social media slop beyond reason.
Dodged one bullet but took the next.
David Graeber might have something to contribute to this subject.
We could call it the Intel Principle. ;)
To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.
Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.
Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.
About the only time I have been like ‘Yeah alright, I get it’ is if you have a sort of writers block. Get a rough draft spat out but then bounce of that, but do not rely on LLM junk for anything more than that.
Five figure!? That’s a bargain. many are going well into six figure territory nowadays.
Ram man Sam should fall into a Dam.
And in typical Aussie fashion, we ripped that off for ourselves!
I think the issue is that the drive train below them is the same. Who is in charge does have a BIG impact on some very key points but the larger general shape of something cannot be changed drastically.
Alan watts once said that you would have to mad to want to be President because it is like nominating to be in charge of a runaway truck with no breaks. You can steer it in different directions but you also have somewhat limited agency. So long as the core funding structure below persists, you can only nudge things.
I am not 100% convinced that if Democrats won 2024 election that we wouldn’t be in Iran right now. That said, if we were in Iran, it probably be a lot more sedate and measured. Probably be Also that is a big IF. I mean Democrats were the ones that spent 2 1/2 years negotiating a peace deal with them only to have Trump rip it up in his first term. I’m not saying it would be the same, but there would be the same pressures from below.
So in that sense, it does matter who is in charge but we also need to tackle the base drive train.
It was Nate Hagens (The Great simplification podcast) who said this when he worked at Lehman Brothers about confidence. Don’t worry, he learned quickly that he was the bad guy and changed his ways completely.
Anyway, when all the new recruits came in they gave them a pop quiz. It starts off simply “What is a derivative?” “How to bonds work?”, and with everyone being young an confident they all answer enthusiastically. Eventually they drop in a question that is really difficult and oddball that nobody would know, naturally everyone starts trying to formulate and answer only to have the teacher stop them. Teacher just says, “Don’t try to fake it, that helps no one. What you say is. I don’t know, I will find out, and I will get back to you.”
You don’t have to have an answer to everything.
It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.
I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.
Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.
It has been kind of sad seeing his decline. Look at his writings from 2010-2015 to where he ended up on Youtube and the decline was steady with it finally hit rock bottom in the last year or so.
He craved attention in any form that he could get it.
Suppose to do life at work, yes. Outside of there, I don’t give a damn what you think!
Because LOL that’s why.
You haven’t lived until you have experienced the warm salty velvety experience of pure analog olfactory organ soup.
Okay, so changes to the oval office are prohibited, but blowing up the east wing for a glorified dance warehouse isn’t? Cool 🤔
Don’t put the cheesecake factory down like that. It is a much classier establishment. Cheesecake factory wasn’t in the Epstein files.
No them cuddling up to Trump was an extinction level event, it just took a decade for the blow back to become loud enough.
Time to hand it to the bourgeoisie elite with a blue shell.
That is when those at the bottom get a blue shell to take those out at the front.
That tracks. I say this because of all the things Trump has done, going with Dana barely moves the needle in terms of what we expect out of him.