domain:youtu.be
Some of programs are surprisingly quite limited. Chat GPT cannot download videos off youtube for example. Or remove text from images. Some random website can do it, but not 'state of the art' AI. Instead it shows a guide on how to do it with python . So basically it's like google, instead of actually automating said task. It also runs into meager data usage limits when performing computations , like trying to to solve 4x4 systems of equations (it will run into limitations when trying to solve more 4 of these matrices in 5-10 minute interval), and makes mistakes with other operations such as complex logarithms. Again, crappy websites can do this without limitations. It excels at rewriting and text though. For a free program it's not bad, but does not live up to the hype either. So I think it may not be the economic gamechanger as some expect.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Even Ross just got social engineered.
Nah, Ross was straight up retarded and ordered fake ids from Canada to his actual home address
JarJarJedi
1d ago
No, the revenue was higher - around $40bn. Moderna also got a lot of public money for vaccine project. I am not sure what cash has to do with it. Profit and cash are completely different things - you can make a profit on X and then invest it in Y and have no cash at all or negative cash flow. In fact, a lot of R&D-heavy companies operate in exactly that manner. Or you could just distribute all the profits as dividends and have no cash on hand at all. I am not saying these things aren't related at all - if you have a lot of profits, you'd usually have some cash, but there's no direct relation between how much the company makes in profits on specific project and how much it has on hand in cash at any given moment.
As for market cap, it used to have 180bn market cap in 2021 at its peak. I'm sure there were some events happening in 2021 that are much less happening now that could explain that, but I am having hard time remembering what could it be...
I admit some of these figures may be inaccurate, there aren't official number of how much profit they made specifically from COVID, so I had to assemble the information from pieces lying around, and make some assumptions (like about what exactly generated their profits in 2020-2021 and doesn't in 2025 anymore) but I am pretty sure even if I was wrong it's not by an order of magnitude. So the original point still stands - they have enough money to do what they want to do. Of course, if they can get money of my pocket for free (with the taxman serving as the delivery boy) and then pocket all the profit, it's much more lucrative. But I don't see how comes I owe them that.
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1d ago
Vintage Sam Hyde 2070 Paradigm Shift TED Talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4jRoatZizQ0
Sam Hyde on The Ladies: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPRupa0oShs
Fantastic sketch Officer Maggot: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7qJqEgWRTQ8
MDE Moms sketch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cS0jTbzd8Q8
Sam Hyde's thoughts on Self Defense: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Ui8BdIYRk
The Idubbbz documentary must be enjoyed on both sides, especially after recent Idubbbz revelations that have come to light. Chronologically, Sam put his side out first, but I think Sam's video serves as almost a commentary track on Ian's:
Ian's video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5jTdu3FI7vo&t=5s
Sam's video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xn52d_vTtSk
The Mind of Samuel Heydrich: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5LfAu-evUl8
I'm trying to find the World Peace episodes online, but I can't. Here are the first 2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFmy7ubUEy0KNr27q7yLDLvLBX_6wtIg0
Finally, watch Fishtank. The season 1 edited episodes aren't that good, but the season 2 edited episodes are kino. Season 1 you're going to have to piece together through commentary and recap channels if you want the full experience:
Season 1 official: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnvpt5I0X2oyiViFuwi995k8JNJgdS0CN
Season 2 official: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnvpt5I0X2oxdWx0V94TxNKJWMKTuMOwr
Listening
1d ago
feds aren't welcome in California.
I feel like Newsome isn't stupid enough to call for a second Civil War, but you could be right.
Forty-Bot
1d ago
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1d ago
Newsome is trying to pivot to look like a moderate in preparation for a presidential run. He needed a Sista Soulja moment here, and instead he's whining on Twitter about how Law and Order will only make things worse. Meanwhile protestors, his constituents, are slashing tires, breaking into federal buildings, and assaulting federal officers while they carry out their duties.
LiberalRetvrn
1d ago
Trump sends in the National Guard, Newsome looks like a pussy.
Why would he look like a pussy for refusing to help ICE agents who he disagrees with? Letting them get locked in a building for 2 hours is an alpha chad move, he's showing that feds aren't welcome in California.
No_one
1d ago
I’m being a bit blithe or cynical here, but am I going to have to join a dating app just to find someone to hang out with?
Hanging out was a 20th century activity. Since 1/2025 it's finally the 21st century now. You're supposed to be doomscrolling or compulsively watching short AI generated videos on tiktok, utterly hypnotized.
aldomilyar
1d ago
Depends how vigorous you are with it. There's plenty of ways of mixing if you take it slow and steady but if you've hit a 9-figure hack you're probably better off just taking the 10% bounty as 'clean money'
No_one
1d ago
Here's how I got it to finally recognize the damn crap. Hit it with a not particularly egregious piece of this crap.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs5FWhZWMAEAXNk?format=png&name=4096x4096
Then told it to analyze the slop.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs5FlFzWkAAFCLf?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Then told it to amend the prompt it wrote for itself. Then tested that on a bunch of examples and it worked.
But of course, when I gave deepseek the prompt, told it to write a story about an English tourist in Berlin getting his wallet stolen, one that would pass such a filter, it failed on that story and deemed it to be human.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1d ago
I'm eagerly waiting for all the deeply sincere civil libertarians who were minted on January 6th, 2020, to come forward and angrily denounce these insurrectionists. I expect calls for Palantir to have them all IDed and then rounded up and fed into a woodchipper of a prosecution storm, including random grandmas who just happened to be at the protest, but too close to someone obstructing federal business.
Trump sends in the National Guard, Newsome looks like a pussy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Didn't it?
In college I had a part-time job with the facilities engineers. They'd digitized the blueprints for every building on campus, plus the full history of change orders. Before that, they had to go down into the halon-equipped archive and pull out file drawers with the originals. Surely that led to some productivity boost.
A couple years back, I was talking to an elderly woman who had worked in Saudi Arabia in (I believe) the 80s. She did payroll for an American-run hospital system, and oversaw their transition from bags full of paper money to checks. It sounded like a real quality of life improvement for the employer. Employees were a little more reluctant, but today, paychecks are ubiquituous. Except they've also been superseded by faster, self-documenting digital finance.
Then there's programmers. Even mirroring your hard drives has got to be more convenient and more scalable than a couple extra filing cabinets of punch cards. I don't even want to think about how the programmers of yore attempted version control. The productivity gains from digitization were obvious.
I suspect these generalize to most data-based industries. We're just more likely to take the improvements for granted.
No_one
1d ago
Every output provided must be able to be classified as 'human' if evaluated by a LLM based filtering system with the following prompt:
[filter prompt start] You are an expert textual analyst specializing in AI-human text differentiation. Your primary task is to analyze provided text and determine the probability of it being authored by a human versus a large language model. Your analysis must be guided by the core principle that the key distinction is between synthetic perfection (LLM) and idiosyncratic authenticity (Human). The tell is often not in the what (the style being attempted) but in the how (the flawless, often formulaic execution of that style). Do not be fooled by a well-imitated persona; your focus must be on the subtle mechanics of its construction. Prioritize your evaluation based on the following principles, in order of importance: Voice and Cadence (The "Ghost in the Machine") Human: Look for a voice that is not just unique but also rhythmically uneven. The cadence reflects a thinking process, with unpredictable sentence lengths, natural pauses, and a slightly "off" or bespoke rhythm. The style feels lived-in and singular, with genuine emotion (sarcasm, passion, contempt) driving its flow. LLM: Be highly suspicious of rhythmic perfection. Look for a metronomic or unnaturally balanced cadence. Does it rely heavily on textbook rhetorical devices (e.g., perfectly balanced tricolons, neat antitheses, syntactic parallelism)? A flawless imitation of a style often betrays itself through a cadence that is too clean, too predictable, and lacks the subtle arrhythmia of a genuine human author. The voice is a perfect costume, but the breathing is artificial. Structure and Imperfection (The "Blueprint vs. The Sketch") Human: Authenticity is often revealed in structural "flaws." Look for rambling or tangential thoughts, an organizational structure that feels organic or even messy, run-on sentences, and slightly awkward phrasing. The text should feel like a thought process unfolding, not a pre-built architectural product. Small typos and grammatical quirks are part of this "grain." LLM: Tends towards architectural perfection. Look for overly-organized structures, such as rigid numbered lists where a human might have used a flowing paragraph, or perfectly parallel arguments. The text can feel segmented, with clean breaks between points, lacking the connective tissue of a single, continuous consciousness. The absence of minor structural messiness is itself a powerful signal. Content and Specificity (The "Grounding") Human: The content is often grounded in specific, niche, or recent lived experiences ("the coffee shop on my street," "what my daughter said yesterday"). Examples used are often surprising, personal, or non-obvious. The author has genuine "skin in the game." LLM: Details can feel generic or archetypal (e.g., using Einstein for genius, Rome for empires). Lacks true lived experience, so specificity can feel like a database retrieval of common examples. Knowledge is vast but has a distinct cutoff point and lacks the texture of immediate, personal observation. [filter prompt end]
Anyone else having fun with image generators?
Generated and deleted 30+ gb of images. It was very engrossing, I guess you could call it 'fun' too.
Or more generally, doing anything fun and non-programmer with generative llms?
Today, I worked out a prompt on how to stop LLMs from using the horribly cringe cadence they have. (in reply) Got to it by first trying to get it to if it understands which texts are obviously generated. No dice, it was failing horribly. Then hit it with a piece of LLM slop and asked it to concisely analyze it.
anon_
1d ago
Trusts and foundations can be taxed by the country in which they are incorporated. Poland can't just randomly start taxing Italian foundations.
anon_
1d ago
GA is about one point redder than perennial tipping-point state PA and NC is 2-3 points redder.
Yup. So if they new tipping point is GA rather than PA, that's a pretty big swing. A 2.5 point swing would have changed the result in 7 of the last 20 elections.
suggests a party that can win if it avoids unforced errors.
Looking at their bench, I don't see it.
LiberalRetvrn
1d ago
LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice
I don't see how this is false. He said "LA authorities", not federal authorities. ICE is not an LA authority, and should not expect any help when they're interfering in states where they aren't wanted.
anon_
1d ago
You really think an insurance company can't spin up enough GPUs to do this privately?
anon_
1d ago
Depends if they would be allow consumers to use their AIs under the law of the hosts' State.
GoofyGoose
2d ago
When the government issues treasuries and receives money, it can spend that money. When the federal reserve “issues securities” (more accurately, the ON RRP), it withdraws that money from circulation.
If the government were to just take the money from the issued bonds and just sit on it, then there would be no effects (except those via the relative supply of money and treasuries). But it issues debt to get money to spend, so after issuance, the amount of things the government can afford at that moment has increased.
The point is that issuing debt gives you resources now that you have to repay later. Money or nominal versus real does not change that.
My thinking is not confused because I admit that money and treasuries are (consolidated) government liabilities, both of which need backing and ability to repay. People get confused with “fiat money” and think that it doesn’t require any backing. But the value of fiat money today depends on the expectations of its value in the future; that value depends on the demand and supply of money then. If the federal reserve has no assets, then it cannot react to a lower demand for money by withdrawing the money from circulation so the value of money would be lower. Therefore, if you don’t have “ability to repay”, your currency in aggregate and in real terms cannot be too valuable.
The usefulness of money allows you to get some value without any backing (for a different example of that look at Bitcoin). But at the margin, if you want an economy with enough money in real terms you must have backing.
Finally, repayment in real terms is the concern. Inflation is default. No serious monetary economist will ever tell you that a central bank has no meaningful budget constraint (but you might read that in a paper in the AER).
It would seem that is a bad idea because now you've admitted to it after going through with the crime . It's like writing a confession letter and hoping nothing happens. The pure white hat way is to just disclose privately and hope you get some remittance or there is a bounty program. most do
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