People are downvoting the tone, not the question. Calling it bullshit when it is seriously stealing money from other human beings and calling it “not my problem” under the assumption that it doesn’t matter if it affects others, displays absolute lack of empathy. Devaluing the question and making it a bad faith comment.

But that would be an ethical business model, we can’t have that, this is PayPal and this is the internet. There’s no place for ethics in that combination.

Unless we invent cold fusion between the next 5 years, they will never be economical. They are the most energy inefficient thing ever invented by humanity and all prediction models state that it will cost more energy, not less, to keep making them better. They will never be energy efficient nor economical in their current state, and most companies are out of ideas on how to shake it up. Even the people who created generative models agree that they have just been brute forcing by making the models larger with more energy consumption. When you try to make them smaller or more energy efficient, they fall off the performance cliff and only produce garbage. I’m sure there are researchers doing cool stuff, but it is neither economical nor efficient.

Several tried. Nothing as elaborate as cross dissemination, federation or whatever. But at least 5 to 10 years ago it proved to be almost impossible. Platforms like Rooster teeth, which was 100% subscription based, I think never broke even and still relied on YT ads for the majority of the revenue. Some big and small channels tried to at least just catalog, archive and serve their own videos and the costs still became astronomical really fast. Whenever you see one of those very old channels, most of them don’t conserve copies, let alone original source footage of their entire material. Everyone just delete their videos once they’ve been on YouTube for a month or so now, and they have to download their own videos when they want to reuse old footage.

Storage is cheap today, yes, but video really eats storage at an alarming rate. Specially now that 4k is the standard. So you have to reuse storage over and over. Transcoding is also really fast and optimized with modern algorithms, but it takes specialized graphical cards and data centers charge a premium to use servers with such capacities. Self hosting will never be able to satisfy a moderate demand. Get anything above 100 users simultaneously transcoding videos and a non-specialized server will halt to a grind just on IO calls to hard drives alone.

Once you consider all those factors it is obvious why YouTube is such a miracle.

Yeah, I think a lot of Frida’s attractiveness was due to her strong character, personality and ideological thoughts. These have an influence on what and how we consider certain features attractive or not.

Violence against a minority: lone wolf, obviously, let’s pray he gets better.

Violence against a billionaire: it’s time to discuss left-wing violence! (Shooter was obviously right wing).

The hypocrisy is palpable.

Except, that’s in the real world of physics. In this mathematical/philosophical hypothetical metaphysical scenario, x is infinite. Thus the probability is 1. It doesn’t just approach infinite, it is infinite.

It’s not close to 100%, it is by formal definition 100%. It’s a calculus thing, when there’s a y value that depends on an x value. And y approaches 1 when x approaches infinity, then y = 1 when x = infinite.

Indeed, the formal definition actually doesn’t specify how many monkeys will write what given an infinite number of monkeys, it’s unknowable (that’s just how probability is). We just know that it will almost surely happen, but that doesn’t mean it will happen an infinite amount of occurrences.

The infinite amount of time version is just as vague, one monkey will almost surely type a specific thing, eventually, given infinite time to type it. This is because when you throw infinites at probability, all probabilities tend to 1. Given an infinite amount of time, all things that can happen, will almost surely happen, eventually.

Almost surely, I’m quoting mathematicians. Because an infinite anything also includes events that exist but with probability zero. So, sure, the probability is 100% (more accurately, it tends to 1 as the number of monkeys approach infinite) but that doesn’t mean it will occur. Just like 0% doesn’t mean it won’t, because, well, infinity.

Calculus is a bitch.

In typical statistical mathematician fashion, it’s ambiguously “almost surely at least one”. Infinite is very large.

The whole point is that one of the terms has to be infinite. But it also works with infinite number of monkeys, one will almost surely start typing Hamlet right away.

The interesting part is that has already happened, since an ape already typed Hamlet, we call him Shakespeare. But at the same time, monkeys aren’t random letter generators, they are very intentional and conscious beings and not truly random at all.

Dude committed several genocides because he had mommy issues and killed the first woman he had sex with because she sided with his adoptive dad on whether being strong or being reasonable was more important and then decided to join the literal fascists. It doesn’t get any more masculinity troubles than that.

Continuing this take. From a storytelling point of view, they should’ve made it so that having a lightsaber was extremely difficult, the defining feat of a master Jedi knight. Something that padawans trained to use eventually but was an actually really hard, life threatening even, object to create. Crystals should’ve been an statistical impossibility, involve a pilgrimage and ceremony, you’d have to be a keen user of the force, train your sensibility to it, master the skill of manipulating life and matter through the force to construct it. Sabers had to be relics, with names, history and mythology. Handed from master to padawan when they became knights through the ages. Further symbolizing the master-apprentice relationship. Thus there can’t be any more apprentices than there are masters. Sith would have to kill Jedis and steal them, corrupting the sabers.

But Lucas was a meh world builder anyways, so whatever.

It’s most likely a troll attempt. The mix up of race with sexuality and the vague ambiguous wording of the question aimed at confuse and enrage the audience seem intentional. It is not a stupid question. But it has been phrased with all the hallmarks of bad faith, including the “I’m not a troll” remark.

Or you could, you know, pay a person a living wage to be physically present at the store to assist shoppers and review the sales.

Or, hear me out. Maybe a 70% review requirement is not automation at all. Just saying.

The only money to be made in the LLM craze is data scraping, collection, filtering, collation and data set selling. When in a gold rush, don’t dig, sell shovels. And AI needs a shit ton of shovels.

The only people making money are Nvidia, the third party data center operators and data brokers. Everyone else running and using the models are losing money. Even OpenAI, the biggest AI vendor, is running at a loss. Eventually the bubble will burst and data brokers will still have something to sell. In the mean time, the fastest way to increase model performance is by increasing the size, that means more data is needed to train them.

Sepsis, Batman’s ultimate archenemy.

Oh there are these things I call Hollywood wounds. All these wounds that are supposed to be survivable in action movie land but would be very real life threats. Stabbings are nasty, specially in the abdomen. You just got signed to play craps with loaded dice and the casino is abdominal cavity infections. You might survive the bleeding, but the fever can still take you out several days later.

There are others like being shot in the leg or the shoulder. Technically survivable, but will destroy your mobility forever. Another one is vertebral spine fractures (which this batman also miraculously survives). If you can walk again after that it would be after years of rehab, and even then you’d still be in pain the whole time until the day you die. Superhero movies are very unrealistic on their handling of human anatomy.

Except, she is not a child. She is a grown person who votes and supports opinions that will get vulnerable people killed. This are both very childish ways of handling conflict.

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