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Yes. Anthropic has made $5bn in its entire existence up until March. It also spent $10bn on compute. It's raised $60bn (with $30bn of that arriving Feb 12), which suggests other costs - or prepayments/deposits for compute are brutal
"We took idiosyncratic passages out of context from longer, often challenging works, and asked a supercomputer to render them more palatable in isolation. Which version do you find more palatable in isolation?"
I feel like this is the same feedback pattern that says “the market supports fast food chains; people must want predictable bland food.” We often gravitate toward what is easier, but that doesn’t mean we think it’s better.
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
Oh, are you fucking kidding me
the last thing you see before your legitimate democratic leadership is overthrown by the british and americans for wanting to renationalize their oil
does anyone have recs of works by religious or philosophical figures on resisting oppression, hegemony, and empire? any cosmological framework is fine, but buddhist, quaker, sikh, and liberation theology christian texts would be particularly welcome
Hasbro deciding they're going to make D&D into a subscription-based, AI-laden "lifestyle brand" is insane to me, but also not the least bit surprising
Ah-ha! We found the true definition of "ultra-processed" food!
Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure
Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup
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I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
I'm tired of seeing a certain type of guy treat horror fiction as a puzzle to be solved, as something you can get the best marks in, where bad things only happen to people who deserve it because they aren't as smart and capable as you
there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list
isn't the whole point of postgraduate degrees that you can't get one until you can prove you've contributed original work to your field?? isn't AI the exact opposite of original by definition???
hey in case you missed it jake lang got caught in a pedophile sting trying to arrange a meetup with what he thought was a 15-year old girl
or is it mainly a question of what the DA's office thinks they can prove?
would it change things if you were talking shit to the guy before he punched you?
i need legal help for fiction-writing purposes: if you get punched in a bar fight and punch the guy back and he falls backward and hits his head on something and dies, is that first-degree manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter?
there are plenty of complimentary reviews that will gush about how a 'low stakes' plot was made to feel engaging!
because high and low stakes is still perfectly intelligible as an analytical framework of a plot! it just breaks down if you are using 'high' and 'low' as a proxy for 'audience is convinced the stakes matter' vs 'audience is not convinced the stakes matter.'
i think this essay actually suggests to me that we need a four-quadrant approach to discussing stakes. the stakes can be near or far and they can ALSO be low or high. high stakes is boring if it's too far, low stakes is enthralling if it's sufficiently near.
"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."
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A.I, overwhelmingly is for anime porn and Facebook boomer posts. We don’t have real data on how much it’s used but we do have real data on how cool it’s users *are* which is not very
Citizens in a Democracy Must Be Allowed to Criticize Israel
If you cannot say what is true about Israel’s horrific actions in the world, you do not live in a democracy, writes fascism expert Jason Stanley.
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Faced with slumping sales, Toys R Us believes private equity is the best way to ensure the future of the well known retailer
On the issues, Moskowitz is severely out of step with FL-23 voters. *63%* of Democratic voters support reducing military aid to Israel, with 30% supporting a full cessation of aid.
And while Jared Moskowitz has signaled support for the war on Iran, FL-23 Democrats oppose military strikes by a 50-point margin.
when I saw this I thought it was some new nickname for Trump I hadn't heard
