thruway516

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'Class','taste' etc these are all very subjective. One could argue that Mr Beast built all of his fame from scratch and didnt have it handed to him or having to sleep with some powerful gatekeeper - something you can't say about all your 'classy' hollywood stars. If you go back a century you can probably find people kvetching about the lack of class of these new fangled movie people compared to the theater stars of their day (who actually had to know how to act)

thruway516

10 ay öncediscuss

Steal from the public not powerful well-connected financial institutions

thruway516

10 ay öncediscuss

I dont think they had to lie to Yahoo to do it though. Everyone believed in the froth of dot-com and plenty of dumb money just there for the taking from the likes of Yahoo. Kinda like today with all the AI froth.

thruway516

10 ay öncediscuss

> After all is said and done, Charlie Javice will be hanging out at a prison camp—probably down there with Holmes and Maxwell, because it's cushy—and do no more than 4 years

I don't mind that outcome. She did not knowingly sell a product that could harm the public or abuse and traffic children, so it wouldn't be unfair or a travesty of justice like with those other two (especially that last one)

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

Unfortunately I got this as an audiobook and the author, who is born in the Bronx, decided for some reason to read it in a British accent which made it really hard for me to get through. Might have to get the book itself and give it another try.

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

Yes. If you look at the Alto, the Unix OS or the original mac (which itself was a kind of inferior ripoff of the Alto), Microsoft's domination was very much a case of bad products driving out the good and setting back personal computing by decades. Not until Linux, the Internet and the Iphone did we start to get a taste of where most people in the 70s and 80s thought personal computing was headed.

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

Probably every human being looks like a huge asshole if you put their entire life under a microscope. Even Mother Teresa did some giant asshole things if I remember. You're just not aware what a huge asshole you are because someone hasn't written a very good biography of your life from a perspective different from yours (or you havent lived long enough)

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

The ratio of hype to substance is ridiculously out of this world. But like GP said (about AI), there's something there underneath all the hype

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

It's a fairly safe bet if you're trying to minimize your risk as much as possible. Sure it lacks imagination and you probably miss out on the true outliers but most Vcs are really conservative risk averse investors no matter what they say.

thruway516

2 yıl öncediscuss

I second this. I just fear the hype surrounding generative AI is leading to extreme tunnel vision and neglect of other promising tech (cough crypto) and even other areas in ML and deep learning that might actually be more fruitful for Agi.

thruway516

5 yıl öncediscuss

Maybe we won't even have languages at all. We'll just communicate through gifs. My point is who knows. *Wow Someone really took offense at Mandarin

thruway516

5 yıl öncediscuss

An alien civilization of giant lizard men that once roamed the earth whose dietary habits were superior and everyone should emulate (by buying and reading my book - "The Paleo-Plastic Diet for modern man").

thruway516

5 yıl öncediscuss

Assuming anyone is still speaking English, and not say Mandarin or even some obscure African language no one has even heard about yet.

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