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well, it is the same prediction. SpaceX IPOed as an AI company mostly

Nah, it is trump; it is probably more water than that

Yeah, i also recommend this. I read them a while ago, but Engines of the Gods, Deepsix and Chindi were fun

i will not say that Steam has a lot of pro-consumer functionality. but in this particular case, the thing that sony is being critizied for is something Valve has already done, 20 years ago

This meme is a pet peeve because sony is doing exactly the same thing that valve did when they released steam, of going digital-only and tying game ownership to digital accounts.

laissez-faire capitalism doens't actually work if externalities need to be factored in the price

i don't think this is true.

the sin of gluttony come from the logismoi of gastrimargia, which means "madness of the stomache" and it always was about wasteful consumption of food.

the hording wealth and resources is also a sin, but the very specfic "greed"

do you think that charlie Kirk memorial fountain should spew shit, for how he lived, or blood, for how he died?

Leverage buyouts are just a symptom of the problems in the system

In theory, leverage buyouts make perfect sense, kinda like a mortgage. You get a loan to buy something with that same as a collateral.

The fact that these usually ends in worse conditions for everyone is not because leverage buyouts are the problem, but the private ownership. Toys r' us should have been owned by the workers, man utd by the fans, as so forth

Yeah, it is so people think that the ai companies are seeing the next, not-yet-public versions and are scared, they must be so powerful, right?

Altman has been claiming chat gpt made him feel dumb since 4.5

Last time we tried killing Nazis. Worked fine

i'm sure that during the 10,000 years falling there were plenty of billboards and ads