Power. Men are more privileged than women. The more power somehow has, the more they are shielded from the consequences of their actions and the worse their behaviour.

I do suspect that overall men are alsi more likely to engage in violence than women, but i haven't checked data to see if i'm wrong.

A friend of mine introduced herself to someone who then looked so devasted, that it caused her to realize how they must know each other: "We already know each other." "Do we?" "Yes!" "Oh... you mean in the biblical sense?" "Yes."

I love this kind of law because it's likely impossible for ai companies to comply.

Could be there'll be some exemptions if the user employs workarounds, because at the moment it's pretty easy to get llms to tell you things they aren't supposed to.

But if the laws are written right with actual penalties that may force the companies to create a product that's capable of having safety parameters - something llms don't currently seem capable of.

abstaining is objectively the dumbest fucking position anyone could ever take

One of the other positions is pro rape, pro concentration camps and pro explosive diarrhea.

Tabletop rpgs are the only artform that merges artist and audience. Telling a story is probably the oldest human artform. With a well-designed RPG and a good group you can tell a story and thrill yourself at the surprising outcome. It's a unique and timeless hobby.

This is such an elegant observation.

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

It's just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.

I've lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.

This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.

Bill Maher's Twain Prize

Umm what? I thought you had to be funny to get that prize? Is the prize itself satire? Maher is just some decrepit asshole who occasionally has cameras pointed at him.

Yeah this whole thing is missing some crucial information.

The paragraph quoted in the post makes it sound like they are near $1b in revenue but i think they're just speaking rhetorically, "you want 100? You can't even get 1!"

In 2026, Emarketer projects that the combination of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will bring in under $1 billion in ad revenue. For context, OpenAI had projected that its AI ad revenue alone would hit $2.5 billion by the end of this year.

This makes it sound like openai is projected to make $250m this year, if they're 90% short of revenue projections for this year. That's a full 25% of the $1b total ad revenue that OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon make combined. Which is reasonable, but it does make their projections seem absolutely farcical. At least to me, but i don't know finances.

It would be good to check rhe original analysis the article cites but it's paywalled and begins with the same misleading comparison of 2030 to now.

Ok but how does it look from the other side?

Sure yep, that also seems unlikely 😆