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  1. Speaking of Trump's America. Is it not just WILD the whipsaw and whiplash since January? It's been 6 months and feels like 2 years worth of events and rollercoasters. The fact that I woke up this week and our stock market is at an all time high just 3 months after tanking it with self-imposed tariff-sized gunshot wounds to tank the market, is absolutely nuts.
  2. Listen here Mr Jabba the Hut you fat sloggily no good lazy bum of a quarterback!
  3. I said this in another thread, but Muslims and Christians in a spiritual sense actually have more in common as an Abrahamic religion than either do with Judaism (again, as Abrahamic) in a fundamental sense, despite the closer political and social commonalities between Jews and Christians. In all three cases, if you are actually "doing the religion correctly" as in, actually living out what the precepts outlined for how to live if you are to call yourself an adherent, to put it coarsely, you are going to necessarily be an extremist IMO. I think that's the conflict. The conflict with adhering to a prescriptive religion in a secular society and it is, from what I can understand, actually a built-in conflict that is a feature and not a bug.
  4. 100%. And certainly there are no "sex trafficking" charges brought against a poor who simply does drugs with his gf and/or cucks himself with prostitutes and his gf. It's just weird kink and possession of controlled substances and prostitution at best. I guess the argument could be with poor people (talking about the freak offs and chemsex, not the actual beatings that took place outside of the sexcapades), the girl is more into it. With Diddy, the girls did it to win his approval and either social climb or be in relationship or otehrwise in his sphere of success/money/influence and so that is, of course, abuse.
  5. I fundamentally disagree, on most or all points, but recognize the ChatGPT AI thread is hardly the place to really drill into it (yet, again). Bringing it back to the technology discussion-- how about that Mark Zuck, eh? That guy is competitive.
  6. Oil tankers worth of ink has been spilled about how what you are describing as the idyllic middle class golden era was an artificially created construct from WWII and America not being a theatre of war and not losing a generation of young men and with an unscathed manufacturing base, that was always a temporary state and was never going to be sustainable, so I won't do it again here except to call it out and say: If your ideal is hinged upon a mirage, it's going to hard to ever really be happy in the messiness of reality. You are chasing the dragon.
  7. What we got ain't nothing new. Industrial Revolutions have always been hard on people. It ain't all waiting on white collar work to find a soft landing to keep up the creature comforts white collar workers have come to expect the last 50 years. That's vanity.
  8. It seemed like from day 1 that the "freak offs" were just crazy drug and sex parties with kink between consenting adults who wanted to engage in chemsex (for whatever reason; career gain, money, pleasure, relationship status, etc.). Calling it sex traffiking and kidnapping always felt like it was catering to the TikTok conspiracy theorists and revisionist historians. Diddy, like most rich and powerful men, seems to be weird, strange, perverted by money and power and sex and drugs (and maybe even sexually confused as suggested by contemporaries like 50 cent and Kat Williams), and definintely a crappy person and domestic abuser. But it didn't seem like he was a sex trafficker or kidnapper, like ever.
  9. Ii mentioned it earlier, but a funny meme last few weeks ago was the YC batch class and how it's all Cursor for XYZ:
  10. It's because rule #1 of mediocre executives (which is to say, 80% of them) in a bubble-- never question or cause anyone to question the hype when you are leading. Satya got a lot of credit (and flak) for doing just that recently, actually.
  11. In dev it's going to look like the housing market. All senior devs and hardly any freshers worth a dang. Like all $600k houses and no starter houses anymore.
  12. I had a FIL gift me Trump's cologne called Victory Christmas of 2015 or 2016. So it's existed forever, just it was a regular square bottle not a golden idol. Yes, the inlaws are MAGA. Yes, we no longer do Thanksgiving.
  13. I like Bobby Cole.
  14. The problem is that "medical marijuana" in Texas under compassionate use is like, barely anything. No flower allowed and it's a gummy or tincture of barely any THC. Doubt there are real medical benefits. disclaimer: this was last time I checked like 18 months ago. Maybe things changed, but doubt it.
  15. I read today that even with the tax breaks/rebates on solar, even with, we are still 5x the price of China. I wonder what multiple we will be now without it.
  16. You got the right stuff baby, uh huh uh huh
  17. I get what you are saying in that this administration will not regulate federally so by default not allowing states to create their own regulation is allowing for no regulation. I think it's pragmatic to say we don't know and it's fair to be on either side of the issue is my only point.
  18. It helps with the factual part of it. I mentioned things like RAG for hallucinations, as well as SLMs, MCPs which, as limited as they are today, are just the beginning. I think it's foolish to think that we are not going to figure out how to get our colletive arms around providing a great user experience and reducing the hallucinations and bad factual answers.
  19. one good braeking bad meme deserves another.
  20. As I understand it, the output is just as good as the data. A story as old as time with data and analytics (e.g. garbage in, garbage out). I'm not technical enough to understand the roadmap, but from what I can see there is already exponential advancements everytime a new model is released to eventually get to a point where it's pretty rock solid. Things like reasoning, model switching, RAG, MCP, and the like for today-- who knows what tomorrow will bring.
  21. A couple of rejoinders, if I may: I completely agree with your first bullet point (yes, I took the liberty). The velocity of the transformation is what is unprecedented and painful (and beautiful). The analogy I've seen is "it’s like we’re all accountants and Microsoft Excel came to be full maturity overnight". I think in such a massive disruption, there will be room for "new players to enter the chat" and new companies that become leaders and displace older ones who don't adapt or transform. To your second point, of course. But the AI doomers that paint a dystopian view of life I think are off base. Not that they can't be correct but that they are so sure that they are correct. Third point: It's been argued, I think that the democratized wealth in a capitalistic democratic republic like ours was manufactured and artificially created coming out of WWII, and was the exception not the norm. I think we are entering a period that could be argued as even more democratic than before in that we are deomcratizing access to expertise across the board. Information disparity via exclusive circles, schooling, families with knowledge and lessons to pass on to their kids (e.g. the things we would identify as privilege and which largely acts as a prerequisite for things like income despairity) will be leveled. Most people around the world will have access for free or for cheap to good legal advice, good medical advice, personalized tutors, business advice, whatever. Knowledge that used to be extremely expensive and exclusive. Huge.
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