i’m sure chatGPT is the laaaaast to ever do anything even remotely similar to this, they’re such stand-up citizens for us all and deserve all the blind trust in the world
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
You don't live in 3 dimensions.
You never have.
A high-school student just proved why everything you learned about reality is incomplete.
This will break your brain:
The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.
He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
— Niels Bohr
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.
This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you’re nothing.”
Robin Williams often repeated that line in his stand-up and interviews, reflecting his belief that creativity, individuality, and a little weirdness are worth holding on to.