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@hankgreen Google: So, sorry you gave it away for free, creators!

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@ChrisBHaynes Isn't attendance in the Garden also allowing a relatively "small group to celebrate"? That's pretty much the business model for live events.

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@CBSNews There are solid solutions which don't involve cutting benefits that include taxing income above the current cap coupled with a modest increase in tax rate. It should already be done, but we always seem to make basic governance way harder than it needs to be.

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@udiWertheimer @dwr Don't you think Apple will have a pathway to upgrade the model (on device and cloud) they are using as improvements are made? lf the plan is to wait a year in-between model upgrades plus the time it takes to actually ship iOS 27 then I am also bearish.

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@MikeIsaac Given your recent courtroom sitting experiencing I'm selecting the hemorrhoid cream for you.

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Somebody show me where the “creativity” is in the current marketplace especially with studio movies. The moat, to the extent it exists, is brand, distribution and marketing. Distribution and marketing are more accessible than they’ve ever been. Creativity comes from artists using tools which is what AI is. Way too early to declare existing companies will adapt to the new paradigm.

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The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

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@Ah_Sahm_ @Tim_NBA It doesn't show the "limit" of set plays. The read I'd make is that good plays can get you better opportunities to score, but you still have to hit your shots.

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Do they? From what I can tell, they produce wastewater that has concentrated minerals and other byproducts which are (supposed to be) treated by the sewer system. The main issue is depletion of the local water supply via evaporation from cooling. I've seen some PFAS concerns with some cooling techniques. Is that it?

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@MikeIsaac @conorsen Yeah, that does suck.

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@MikeIsaac @conorsen Sure, fair point. I realize Twitter (X, lol) is kind of shit show of hot takes and that sitting through a trial listening to these dudes talk is probably enraging. Sorry to pile on you about this one.

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@MikeIsaac @conorsen I'm not a "you guys" making $500k, but I understand your POV. Empathy for one group doesn't preclude empathy for another.

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Yes, many people in the Bay Area live on far less than $500k especially outside of SF. I don't think the fact that some people feel crushed because their plans aren't working out makes their perspective "delusional" particularly. It is just different than yours. They adapted their lifestyle and framed their lives in a particular way. Having to potentially change the way you frame your life IS scary regardless of the "reality" of the circumstance. I guess I feel empathy because I've changed my personal "frame" many times and it is difficult. We get past it though. Piling on people that are going through it is lame imo.

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What is upsetting about it? I think this is a genuine perspective from within the bubble and that has merit. I think we get blinded by the "OMG, so privileged!" POV that essentially means nothing this class of people are facing has merit. If, however, you live in the Bay Area, pay Bay Area prices and make an excellent wage that requires you to stay on a certain path to maintain it. The prospect of that ending IS terrifying and disruptive especially is you have a family. Are there people with far worse circumstances? Clearly. That doesn't mean we can't understand and empathize with a person in this situation.

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Why would you autotune Julian Casablancas' voice? I mean seriously.

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@cremieuxrecueil Have any factors been identified (besides teaching experience) that do have a bearing on outcomes?

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@DJSnM Congratulations! You are now the proud papa of some new baby deer.

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@edzitron I agree the business of AI certainly seems very suspect at this point, but I am finding AI itself hugely useful!

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@JoeTipton @On3 @USC_Hoops @SSN_USC @On3USC @EricPMusselman @michaelmuss_13 Is this shaping up to be Muss' best roster at USC?

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@MikeIsaac Interesting since, from what I can tell, Brockman is a great systems engineer but also not an experienced AI researcher.

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@beffjezos Is this a real position? I don't see how banning data centers gets you to healthcare funding since the sources of investment are different.