Bruce McGill (76 today) proving "there are no small parts, only small actors". Michael Mann gave him just 4 minutes in The Insider (1999), and what Bruce did in that time is unforgettable.
Kudos to Wings Hauser too; his setup is a thing of beauty.
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
Reflecting on this 1977 clip of Warren Zevon from the Dutch documentary Wonderland, where he visits Burrito King in Echo Park and orders machaca burritos.
MARTY SUPREME is the monoculture. It is Great Entertainment, a black hole that consumes all of American cinema. Went long on its virtues and vices for @LAReviewofBooks
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Humanity wouldn’t have thrived if people didn’t have an innate desire to help others. It took billions of dollars worth of propaganda to get this person who naturally responds to suffering around her with empathy and a desire to help others to become a Trump supporter.
Brief history of the AI industry:
DeepMind founders: AGI could cause our extinction. Careless teams might race for it someday. We have to build it first.
OpenAI founders: AGI could cause our extinction. DeepMind is a for-profit company that can't be trusted. We have to build it first.
Anthropic founders: AGI could cause our extinction. OpenAI and DeepMind aren't concerned enough about that. We have to █████ █████ ██ █████.
Elon Musk: AGI could cause our extinction. All the existing companies are too woke. We have to build it first.
Mark Zuckerberg: Oh, bet, there's a race? We have to build it first.