The law of the asphalt jungle dictates a strict hierarchy maintained by the current value of the vehicle. The rare and elusive hypercar at the top, Bentley and Rolls Royce after that, BMW, Audi, Mercedes claim their place after the big boys, then comes the rabble with the commoner brands like Opel, Renault, Peugeot, Volkswagen and after that the economy cars. Trailing all of them are the sort of cars that are officially quadricycles and hated by all. The right of way follows that order and no signaling is required for lesser cars. They are expected to yield and make room for their more noble brethren. It’s a stupid status game, all of it, and it endangers safety.

Bikes get a 2000 bikes per hour throughout on a 1 meter (3 feet) wide lane. Cars can get about 1900 vehicles per hour on a regular lane. Give bikes the same space as you give cars and bikes move a lot more people.

I think “JC and the sunshine band” is also ok.

Meanwhile the link between pollution and autism is pretty clear, and the ratfuckers are removing all environmental regulations. Autism will increase instead.

Then they do the calculation on the costs to raise the children and decide it’s not economically viable.

Every time some new measure is released “for protection”, the next day it’s being used to sniff out dissidents. That usually means journalists, activists (political, labor, environment, …) and sympathisants to give them a bit of pressure to straight up arrest them on some pretense.

The one with people working on electronics and holding the soldering iron with the hot end is also a classic.

Researchers at MIT published a report showing that 95% of the generative AI programs launched by companies failed to do the main thing they were intended for — ginning up more revenue.

Allegedly the remaining 5% that makes a profit is mostly specialized in spam and spam adjacent marketing.

AI sh*t as much as you want, but that AGI they promised is not going to be there.

Google did something similar. They made search worse on purpose so people would do more searches and see more ads, boosting revenue.

But yeah, diminishing returns means investor money drying up means squeezing customers and hoping all that putting AI into everything translates to lots of paying customers.

They had one trick: scaling. And that trick is getting diminishing returns.

Oh, it’s the old “Calculation is futile. You will be… approximated!”

The company that’s involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.

In the end it’s a word generator that has been trained so much it uses facts often enough to be convincing. That’s its basic architecture.

You can ask it to give a confidence level to have an indication of how sure it is of the answer.

Now I’m wondering when Trump is going to rename a month

Almost all companies deploying generative AI don’t see their revenue change significantly. AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.

First you list all the issues people have. Cost of living, housing, energy prices, unemployment… The left generally doesn’t like to talk too much in these concrete terms so it draws a crowd. People like it when their life’s struggles get acknowledged. Get them people really riled up for the reveal.

Then you pull out the hate speech and blame it all on migrants, other races, women, gays, furries, the poor, the lazy, the left, … Hating and banning their favorite group gets sold as the one stop answer to all their problems.

It never works, but it’s a good time to get rich and get power for as long as it lasts.

They’ll say that their work is mainly talking to other people

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