I'm so happy I got married before romance was "disrupted" by tech bros.

This is going to get hated around here, but LLMs are actually a lot more useful than just being silly toys.

I use it for work regularly and it produces reports comparable to what I would expect from a entry level engineer. It has problems that have to be fixed during review for sure, but so do entry level engineers.

Now that's not to say that it's ultimately going to prove it's multi-trillion dollar investment value. If it doesn't progress significantly, and very quickly, than these companies will start to run out of investment money.

But that's how the "free market" is supposed to work. Investors invest in something to develop the idea. If it doesn't work then the investors lose their money.

The thing that's broken in our economy is that the federal government isn't allowing the market to make corrections. For every correction since the dot-com bubble burst the federal government has swooped in and bailed out the bag investments, preventing the correction to occur. And so, for the past 15 years, investors have just moved forward with the assumption that if there is a correction then the federal government will bail them out, so there is no reason to ever pull back on investing because there is no risk anymore, which creates a self-fullfilling prophecy and prevents corrections.

It's sort of looks like we've accidentally figured out how to cure recessions.

That comment really triggered you didn't it. Sorry about that.

I don't know, I think it's a pretty common refrain.

Maybe not common in progressive social media circles.

Yeah, it would be. And my reply comment would also be the same.

Women: Why didn't men ask women out anymore?

Also women:

Great, now when I think of a Fidel Castro "chess master" will no longer be the first thing I think of.

Talk about lying with statistics. The Y-axis isn't labeled and the far end of the chart is still 47% of humans in extreme poverty.

It's so funny to me how badly people want this to be some nefarious governmental conspiracy. Listen, the government already has much better tools to track you online. Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs. This age requirement thing isn't a government conspiracy to track you, they already track you.

It is a *corporate *conspiracy. It's Meta and other major websites, games, and applications companies that want to off load their liability. Meta and Alphabet just lost major lawsuits for their negligence in protecting kids on their own websites. There is a liability dam about to break for these companies and schools and other advocacy groups start their own lawsuits. That's what this is about. That's the real conspiracy.

Seems like this would have been better to procure through contracting.

Is anyone surprised? I mean, did you guys think it was really a $300 million dollar ballroom?

If Texas became it's own nation, it would probably become a cross between Russia and Switzerland. It would quickly develop a highly centralized oligarchy, basically operating off of oil and gas exports, while still having good relationships with it's larger neighbors and have beneficial tax policies.

It would become a great safe place for super rich people to hide money while it's actual population declines economically.