This is rhe same reason I will never buy a house on slab: gotta hammer up the floor, fix, repour and refloor if you ever need those pipes down below.

Whoa I never considered AI inbreeding as a death for AI 🤔

Maybe these schools will be forced to go mask-off and drop all their nonprofit academic programs to focus on football, their true cash cow.

Why don’t I just Google. It’s the same data after all.

Idk, the military industrial boys losing all their foreign customers must not be too happy

Ayn Rand collected social security checks after retirement until her death.

That should tell you all you need to know about Ayn Rand.

Tax unrealized capital gains on a generous progressive scale instead of maintaining a realized gains tax.

Buy a cheap pistol, go back in time, and shoot Gutenberg.

We’d still be living in medieval times.

Well assuming you’re not “financially successful” and talking about wealth classes that make their money from working, then by comparison they don’t do anything differently when their paycheck arrives, or even know what day exactly they get their paycheck. If someone is living above their means or otherwise financially at risk, they’re paying close attention to the numbers in their accounts. More subtly, they might say something like “I just got paid, let’s go out for dinner” or “I’ll buy those tickets on Tuesday” when there’s no reason they shouldn’t just get them now for whatever it is.

The idea is to have water or molten salt cool the walls of the torus from outside, and those drive ordinary turbines like any other generator. The main issue is that particles fly out of the confined plasma donut and degrade the walls, whose dust flys into the plasma and reduces the fusion efficiency. They’re focusing on the hard part - dealing with the health of plasma sustainment and the durability of the confinement walls over time. Hot thing that stays hot can boil water or salt to drive regular turbines, that’s not the main engineering challenge. I get your frustration where it feels from news coverage that they’re not focusing on the right stuff, but what you’ll likely eventually see is that the time between “we figured out how to durably confine a healthy plasma” will quickly turn into “we have a huge energy output” much like inventors puttered around with flight for hundreds of years until a sustained powered flight design, however crappy, finally worked. From that point, it was only 15 years until the first transatlantic flight.

So you want to tax all companies a percent of their stock ownership every year? Good luck with that.

You’re falling intro a trollhill. The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes. If some internet retard can run around your ideas and keep you busy, a team of full time financial experts will have a field day. This is not an easy problem to solve. Pretending like it is leads to support for crappy subpar legislation that doesn’t work.

Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.

Uh…yes it’s about the same, maybe slightly dumber than o3. Which is already mediocre.

I see Tiktok in the news, never downloaded it. Does that make me special?

I don’t get it. Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store? It’s not like it’s any more interesting to consumers than other LLM apps. It was just notable for purportedly being cheaper to train. Something seems fishy.

My accounting team told me they would open more Panamanian shell companies for me, and the shares would get distributed across them. I’d retain full ownership, of course.

You’re thinking like one of the poors. Us ultra wealthy don’t get paid in dollars. We get paid in shares. And we don’t sell the shares, we take out long term low interest bank loans with the shares as collateral any time we absolutely need to use cash.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/invest-borrow-against-die-scott-114400643.html

Yes https://americorps.gov/

I am for it only because it helps avoid politicization of the armed forces. When the military self-selects recruits, you risk the organization biasing towards people with a particular worldview. It intrinsicially also leads to a military comprised of people who love the idea of being a “military person”.

It’s much more reassuring knowing your armed forces, the people with the big guns, are your neighbors, rather than strangers with a particular ideology or biased loyalties.

AmeriCorps is exactly this, but it’s obviously not compulsory.