The difference now is that they have power. All that talk was what they said they’d do if they got power, but now that they’re in, they’re behaving just like they always have done, only worse.

That’s up to us.

Another reason to boycott Texas.

I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I’m putting up a wall.

Bring back the futhark. No point in half-measures.

IPA conceals etymology.

They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.

there will be some sort of reconciliation process

Fuck that. A little people’s justice goes a long way. And I want a lot of people’s justice.

It’s such a shit product, it’s really incredible that they’re still in business.

Cry me a river.

Did anyone ask Altman if Trump had a diaper change before Sam licked it? My guess is not.

As a more general principle, don’t build nitpicky implementation detail into a strategy document. That’s how you get brainfarts like the 3/5 compromise.

Just look at who’s in charge of the Senate, and ask yourself if they are to be trusted to do anything but lie, steal and carry out witch hunts.

As for LLMs, unless driving contact-centre customer satisfaction scores even further through the floor counts as an achievement, so far, all there’s been has been a vast volume of hype and wasted energy, and very little to show for it, except for some highly constrained point solutions which aren’t significant enough to make economic impact. Even then, the ROI is questionable.

It’s the new open source in the same way that it’s the new left-handed bowling.

There are no pearls. It’s uniform, blenderized raw sewage.

Partners and managers (at least senior ones) are held accountable for profitability. A fine directly hits their bonuses. But holding the partners personally liable for fraud would be a good thing to do as well.

At very least, they should be banned from bidding on Australian government contracts for a couple of years.

If a doctor did this, they’d lose their license to practice.

If it’s more than a picowatt-hour, it’s too much.

LLM delenda est.

only really needs to deal with the volatility issue

H2 is the smallest molecule there is, and among the worst to contain. It’s also quite reactive. And the production of H2 for storage is not wonderfully efficient, nor is the whole lifecycle from production to consumption.

The only real reason for hydrogen is to repurpose rather than scrapping the existing gasoline supply chain. That benefits nobody but the fossil-fuel companies. And that’s why it’s being endlessly hyped, despite being a profoundly suboptimal solution.

So, all the countries I’d actually want to live in, except Spain: non-compulsory.