Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
11hr ago
It is cartels all the way down. Whenever you look for explanations about abnormally high prices - just look for cartels. Any market where there are less than 5 sellers/buyers you have automatic cartel behavior even if not explicit.
The markets in the west have been trough so much mergers, acquisitions, agglomerations that usually in whatever chain of commerce you think of there is usually a choke point in which there are few players.
Governments have kinda maybe somewhat alleviated the problem when there is a single seller for something. But they have not even tried to solve what happens when there are 2-3 buyers only (or 2-3 sellers) that just don't feel to compete with each other. Or the case of a single buyer. For example the meat packers right now are fucking both the beef producers and consumers.
Airline, travel, communications, internet providers, car rental, healthcare, groceries - if it is not produced in China - you have a cartel or something similar. This is how private equity operates too - they buy all the small businesses in an area and just jack up the prices - because instead of 20 plumbers, you suddenly have 20 "independents" bought by 2-3 PE funds.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
We love the idea of exploring what orcs were before they became soulless, mindless slaves to Sauron’s will
THEY WERE ELVES!!!!! Literally. There were never free orcs.
It descends into levels of cringe, once deemed impossible.
And a tourist visa isn’t a residency visa.
It kinda is... I was shocked how much stay it allowed. IIRC if you spend less than 50% of your time in USA and don't work you could stay effectively forever jumping between mexico and usa.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
The problem with food staples is that demand is extremely inelastic and poor people are extremely sensitive to and hurt by price increases. Even small increases in the inputs or decrease in outputs could lead to great social troubles.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
As I said envy and pity.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
If she can shoot My Third Gandband Orgy (anal edition) legally, she can totally hang out with you if she feels comfortable. If she was 50 years old cougar will you kick her out? It is still 20 years age gap.
This is not tea. This is progressive Kool Aid. If someone hits on her too hard - tell him to cool it off. If she hits on someone - ah whatever - envy and pity the poor bastard.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
Anti ICE people are a lot quieter after the Pretty Good affair... so I guess your answer is yes.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
Ahh yes - the consensual sex with foster care escapee, before she is fed and hydrated. Because that is how women work.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
What we need is some transparency about how these things work and how they’re trained so we
I am not sure we really grok how the insides of LLM work when they are past certain scale.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Do you think that the 3d place match should be abolished? We got a farce this year and it is additional humiliation ritual for teams that are already pissed off at the universe.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
Seems that pre revolution it had 1/3 of USA gdp per capita. That is quite nice starting point and Cuba was destined to be rich. It had all the potential of Mexico without any of the problems.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
What I meant is that when llama dropped people went crazy with it. It spawned a whole ecosystem. Now china releases amazing open source models and it is like shouting in the void.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
Can anyone explain the whole KDS - Kimi Derangement Syndrome that is going on? I kinda got the hype around deepseek - something that cheap to be that good. But Kimi i don't understand. It is quite expensive and it seems that no one is doing something interesting with open weights models once they are released from the labs. So what gives?
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
The essential element is that the West Bank and Gaza are under effectively under Israeli sovereignty yet their people have no citizenship, the textbook example of apartheid.
They are not under Israeli sovereignty. Israel doesn't claim to own them or rule them. Both are orphaned ex Egypt and Jordanian territories. And if tomorrow Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or the Alpha centauries offer to conquer the west bank and gaza, Israel will welcome them and unroll the red carpet.
Also we have no idea how many Palestinians there are since they refuse to allow any kind of unbiased outside monitors in to actually figure out how many Palestinians there are.
I think we can guestimate by how many hospitals Gaza ministry of health has claimed to have been destroyed.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
That being said, Israel is an apartheid state engaged in terrorism against civilians in large areas that it wants to ethnically cleanse and settle with the genetically correct people.
Israel is not apartheid state. There doesn't seems to be segregation inside Israel. People in the west bank and gaza are not israeli citizens so how can Israel apply apartheid to them?
For the ethical cleansing - Israel seems to be pretty bad at it. We have more Palestinians than ever.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
but I recall telling people I liked Oppenheimer
At the time I said this for Oppenheimer - It becomes one of all time best movies if you remove everything but the Manhattan project.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
(Edit: currently it's sitting at a 89 critic score on metacritic, and a 5.1 user score...)
Kinda strange. On rotten tomatoes it is 96 and 97 correspondingly. Is there a history of audience score mismatch between metacritic and the tomatoes?
A billion will be huge success. What is the break even point of the movie - usually it is around 2.something the budget?
Critical Drinker hasn't released his review which is strange. There is chance the movie is so good he has nothing to rant about, but it is doubtful.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
What are your predictions for the odyssey ? Will it bomb, will it flourish, will it be meh? What it has going on for it are Nolan, star studded cast, one of the greatest adventure tales ever told. On the other hand for every Dark Knight in his career, Nolan has produced a Dark Knight Rises and all of his movies are one hour longer than needed. The casting has definitely some strange and odd choices. And whether there is appetite for mythical destruction in the public after massive woke coded fantasy and other flops in the last few years remains to be seen.
Personally I will probably skip it, unless invited by some extremely hot chick. After so much culture warring - I just can't get excited for the big Hollywood productions anymore.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
The difficult and dangerous work of building an end-to-end exploit given a codebase remains otherwise out of reach.
Probably also for Mythos. We haven't seen that claimed verified.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
Now, what if they were designed to look like real girls? Obviously they would look like this, right (edit: this is one of the original redesign posts)? Well no, because they obviously look like cross dressing men here. The fact that those redesigns look like men is now being denied by real girls who look nothing like those men.
Get this guy a job in western AAA game maker.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
There is nothing more pathetic or soul crushing than cooking for one. For two is better but not by much. With childlessness and loneliness epidemic it is no wonder that people order so much food.
As a person that knows what is it to put a big Christmas dinner because this is our tradition and sit on it alone - at some point you really want to go full Kurt Kobain.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
I realized, so many devs from all walks of life have completely ended their relationship with the text editor and now do literally everything through an agentic prompt.
Guilty as charged. Typing is for secretaries on husband shopping missions. My task is to solve problems.
We are all Scott Aaronson now "These days, if I need any coding done, I use the extremely high-level programming language called ‘undergrad’."
I think that the people that naturally prefer waterfall (or in its other names known as agile or scrum) are the hardest hit. Right now pile prompts on the agents to see what works, then extract core spec, then cleansheet implement is really powerful flow.
That actually leaves more time for thinking about the problem. Agents are also unbelievably good at gathering context. A normal programmer's job is mostly this.
This is part of effort post that I will finish never called Scott Adams and HAL. The gist is that Scott idea about stacking mediocrity is really potent with AI. Agents are just mediocre ... but they are so in everything. They are average programmer, writer, accountant, cad designer, chemist, physicist, physician, surgeon, musician, luthier, home appliance repairman, researcher, metallurgist, underwater basket weaver, devops, casino manager, security researcher, shawarma street vendor, translator - so the more domains a real world problems needs to touch - they compound to extremely high floor. When I prompt AI it is good in translating my request to proper terms of the art, thinking like the needed profession and solving problems that i didn't even needed solution in said task.
The endgame will be fun. Either hyper niche specialists with lifetime of knowledge and expertise and the people with most agency and imagination will be on top.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
Long before this scenario becomes likely the AI researchers and executives and their families will be wearing semtex collars.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
They are philosophically opposed to a setup where the elected President has to follow the dictates of a specific citizen with no constitutional authority.
And with constitutional authority too.
No one else will buy it because the merchant has patent from the king to only serve this area.
Modern businesses excel at creating environments where they need not compete. Regulations, vertical integrations, captive customers, licensing, cartels, centralization, credentialism - businesses love them. They hate the free and efficient market with a passion. Anything that raises the barriers of entry - they approve.
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