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Dragon Ball A16Z: We have replaced interminable screaming powerup sequences and planet-destroying energy blasts with long panning shots of the characters using their abilities to light giant mountains of cash on fire. If you give us a series C at a valuation of $420 million, we may be able to determine why test audience surveys have thus far come back unfavorable

This post serves as your periodic reminder that the bald people were the bad guys in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

This causes me to reflect on contrasting currents in tech culture. I remember growing up with the Apple/Mac rumor culture around the time Steve Jobs came back, and how people had conditioned themselves to get hyped for any little tiny leak about upcoming products. A culture which obviously persists now, albeit in streamlined, advertiser-friendly blog spaces. By contrast, MacWeek magazine had a columnist calling himself Mac the Knife who claimed to have clandestine rendezvous with shady trenchcoat-clad characters in the back alleys of Cupertino... And somehow the new product reveals were almost always somewhat less whelming than the rumormill had built them up to be. Part of the Jobs idolatry that still dominates Silicon Valley is the clear strategy among empty-suit grifters like Altman that such hype is vital but Apple didn't do enough with it; that you should always be marketing what's around the corner rather than keeping it hidden away under lock, key, and NDA.

Contrast this with open-source culture, warts and all. What's in the repository is the basis of what comes next. You think superintelligence is imminent? OK, where's the code stubs that will serve as the foundation? Make a pull request for your mega-brain's medulla, let's review it. It's also a big reason why the current round of AI doesn't fit with open-source culture, no matter how many people are trying to force it. It is inherently an obfuscatory technology. Not just due to the sheer size of the data sets and weights involved, but also through the weird non-deterministic practice of configuring software through natural-language prompts. GIGO at scale, but you can keep the hype going by promising a lower percentage of garbage in the future.

this mf'er watched all the naruto filler and fuckin' loved it

emails SHFiguarts every week from their work address, "Deluxe Mecha-Naruto when?????"

The Hollywood bankruptcy auctions in a few years are gonna be lit

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Ah, a fellow initiate into the mysteries of Cow Lore. Moo to you too, my boo

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Deep dive into complex chemistry may be the most important thing in this thread. The bullshitters need more pushback like this, even though the effort involved means it can't happen nearly as often as the bullshit. Thank you.

As the old saying goes, hope in one hand, Lisp in the other.

If you try it, I personally hope you've got a damned good garbage collector...

How would you audit a computer? Would they add USB-C ports to the cans?