I was ribbing but also teeing you up to make the punchline for the Airplane joke “I am serious and don’t call me Shirley.”

Surely you can’t be serious?

My objection is that this is clearly built from massive old growth trees. These may technically be renewable compared to oil but they really aren’t in practicality since it takes multiple lifetimes for trees to grow that large. I don’t have an issue with using younger trees and replacing them but once you’ve seen an old growth forest irl, you realize how tragic it is that most of them were cut down.

Trump, wearing a hot dog suit: We’re all looking for the guy who did this!

I didn’t hate it but I was ambivalent. Then one day I was at work and my boss was like “I’m craving guacamole, go get these ingredients so I can make us some.” So I did and his recipe was excellent. I have been an avocado junkie ever since.

I can definitely understand this. There are so many different brands of orange juice that taste wildly different from each other. I’m pretty picky and over time I’ve learned which brands I like and don’t like, but I can completely see how you had that experience.

I thought that Anthropic et al. were charging enterprise accounts based on token usage rather than just a flat subscription fee. That’s why you see things like this.

Sorry if that’s true. I understood the word to mean aggressive growth at any cost to try and shut out competition before they can get established.

OpenAI and Anthropic will collapse in the next years

Stop, I can only handle so much good news!

I’m slightly optimistic that manufacturers will return to the retail market eventually. Every AI company is racing to hyperscale right now but there will be a point where the infrastructure is built and at that point the growth will slow down quite a bit. In that scenario there will be ongoing demand for components to be replaced as they become obsolete but I can’t imagine the demand will be the same level it is right now as everyone rushes to build.

That’s assuming this all works the way they want it to. If the economics aren’t viable and the bubble bursts…

Ok but it would take 70 users paying $200 to cover the cost of $14,000. So if one person maxes out their usage, there needs to be 69 users who do not use their account at all but are still paying. And that’s just the break even point, still no profit for the AI company.

I’m struggling to believe that many people would pay that much and then underuse the subscription. It seems far more likely to me that this pricing model isn’t sustainable.

I was called once for a case where the defendant allegedly shot the victim (who survived). During selection process we all had to stand up briefly before the court and answer several questions. One of the questions was “What was your highest level of education?” which was particularly salient to me because I had finished medical school the previous year and was in the middle of my internship. So I paid attention to who had college/graduate degrees and what their majors were.

Fast forward to time to break for lunch, after the attorneys had met with the judge briefly, and the judge announces that he is going to call out a list of names and wants those who are called to stand. I immediately notice that everyone being called is someone who didn’t go to college or anything beyond high school. At the end of the list the judge says “If you haven’t been called, you are dismissed from service.” So the lawyers had basically nixed everyone with any kind of education. I found the experience informative and disheartening.

Same for me, I must love everything I see.

The rectum is not the same as the anus.

This is the one I came here for. Really don’t care for him. Only exception I make is Edge of Tomorrow which is great. Maybe because his character starts as an entitled ass which feels natural.