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  • It’s a huge disaster in the making. There’s probably a game theory model that explains what’s happening but damned if i know it. AI is a trap.

    At the beginning of LLMs as a consumer tech phase, the big tech companies believed that they would soon generate synthetic data without human labor costs. But synthetic data caused model collapse when used as training data. So they still need humans.

    But now their competitors are using scrapers and summarizers and those are expensive so they have to extract more value from search traffic and that means fewer referrals to sites. Fewer referrals to sites reduces original content and leadabto less traffic and training data for their models.

    The only two ways out are to create an international regulatory body ornto break up facebook, microspft, and google.







  • That’s a great comment. So we shouldn’t fry foods which combine fat carbs and protein. Those are mostly the invention of modern industrial processes beginning in the 1800s. Most cultures had fairly healthy ways of cooking foods prior to the 1800s. And soups and stews are universal dishes native to all cultures going back into antiquity and probably the invention of pottery.

    I have a funny story. Ghengis khan, as he got older, began to think about improving his health. He sent for a man ( daoist) rumored to be an immortal. The man admitted he was not an immortal but he was very old. At least 70. The great khan said that he would like to live longer.

    The Daoist replied:

    “For starters you could eat less fried meat and boil it instead.”

    The Khan’s response seemed plagiarized from a patient in a doctor’s office today and the world’s greatest conqueror, a bloodied steppe warrior, probably made the pinched face of a baby rejecting vegetables.

    For some reason lightly burning food makes it incredibly delicious but it also releases dangerous compounds which oddly broadly increase cancer rates. I think even lung cancer risk increases. But we’ve known about it since antiquity and so few cultures ate them in large quantities until the modern era.









  • Involuntary commitment decisions have to be made by a someone with medical or psychological training. In the past people were disappeared (there’s a movie about it called “The Changeling”).

    But I think we need to make addiction one of the mental conditions that should lead to temporary mandatory rehab. I don’t think addiction is something people choose to be afflicted with and if there’s a chance they could be successfully treated it might be something they will look back on with some posititivity.






  • The reason is that Trump can reverse the tariffs tomorrow. Or a court could freeze them if it rules trump acted illegally.

    But it does seem that they might be doing some serious insider trading on the market’s volatility. Its funny that until 2024 this was illegal. But the supreme court wanted this. So here we are.