He's right.

One of the things that is most sticking about DSA members is how almost upper class all of them are. They all have all of the comforts of an high middle class lifestyle and sometimes even better, but seem personally victimized by the fact they are not the uber wealthy. She’s upset by her cruise experience because she’s not in the $40k/trip presidential suite and instead has to endure the “diverse” crowd.

Welcome to the new cycle, same as the old cycle.

No, she's absolutely right. The problem is most people aren't that good.

The iced coffee debate for interviews hit my feed finally. Look, you can think it's arbitrary. You can think it's stupid. You can think everyone who disqualifies you for having an iced coffee is a sheep, or you're much smarter than them, or blah blah blah. It doesn't really matter. Here's the actual truth: you need a job, and more importantly, you don't have one. And even more important than that, you either don't have the connections, money, or skills to already have people coming to you for your work. That's fine. That puts you on par with the vast majority of people. However, you also need to understand that you are a nobody to the companies that are hiring. Even if you have the skills, they have no idea who you are. You could be lying. You could have some personality defect that nobody wants to deal with. You could be pleasant. They flat-out don't know. The point of the interview is to clarify who you are and to figure out if they want to hire you. And keep in mind, if you're the type of person who's applying to a random job on the internet, chances are there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other people applying to the same job. You are not valuable enough to be making demands. You're not Mark Zuckerberg walking into the VC office in a bathrobe to make a point. You are the one with your hand out, asking for something. You might think this is unfair. You might think the system is out to get you. You might think it's discrimination. Doesn't really fucking matter. You need a job. They have a job, and they have a lot of other people they can go with. If bringing the iced coffee disqualifies you with some percentage of these people, even if it's arbitrary, why the fuck wouldn't you leave it at home?

Video Game fans get one (1) good movie adaptation in the 50 years since the birth of the medium and “gamers” give it a mediocre score.

His manager is a fucking moron.

Really great read

My wife is reading the story of Mother Angelica, the cloistered nun who started a TV station and you can summarize 80% of the story like this:

“Thank you for being here Dario. Now tell us when is the next release of the Torture Nexus going to be released.” “Oh it’s so self sufficient that it’s probably already escaped and currently torturing people as we speak” “Amazing! And you recently called for regulation on yourself and the industry?” “Yes, we need regulation to stop us from iterating and releasing better versions of the torture nexus, which might not even be possible because it’s now self aware and able to build better versions of itself. It’s really quite dire.” “Sounds like it! May God have mercy on us all. Now, your IPO date is coming soon?” “Oh yes, soon everyone will have a chance to invest in the Torture Nexus. Will be very exciting time next year.”

Imagine if during Jurrasic Park, Hammond spent the runtime talking about how dangerous the park was and talked about bringing in regulators while going full steam ahead towards launching to the public. This whole thing is very weird.

I’m going insane what do you mean Taylor Lorenz is the voice of reason here?

“AI can’t produce art” crowd real quiet right now…

Oh, I just got it. Everyone wants to pause AI development because they want to take a year for the supply chain to catch up with their compute needs. One of the biggest compute drivers right now is the training, as we're going to need more and more compute to be able to handle the new models. Everyone across the board is just getting slammed on the cost of compute. But if one company pauses, they're just going to lose out to another frontier model. Just think about where Meta is sitting today and how they once were considered the frontier, or at least close to it. But you can't work together to not buy compute because you're going to get slapped with antitrust lawsuits, and the politicians will just be itching to bring everyone in. So instead, you say you need to pause for a year because of some super scary yet undeterminable danger. Don't release any new frontier models for the next 12 months. Blame the regulation for the reason why you're not training more, and then resume when you can buy compute at a cheaper price. Pausing a year lets everyone get used to the new reality and understand what's capable. The customer base gets more mature and understands what the real needs are, so that when you go back and actually start developing again, you can be more precise. Thr only problem with this is that China might then have a chance to catch up. But I bet they think they can throw some hurdles along the way and just bet that they're not going to be able to out-innovate us on this front.

This is a marketing campaign, btw.

It's unfortunate we didn't have social media across all the great innovations of the last 200 years. I would love to hear the daily Twitter ramblings of a man who blamed the lack of easy transportation from city to city for being the reason his business sucks, only to realize that now that he can go anywhere via train, he's still a failure.