Ironically modern college is designed to turn people into LLMs.
They have no experience of “the thing”, they have no ownership of “the thing”, they have no independent valuation of “the thing”.
They just know the acceptable patterns of talking about “the thing” as reinforced by a loss function of grading and approval.
His movie had Miami and New York submerged under the ocean by now, the ice cap disappearing by 2014, Glacier National Park glacier-free by 2020, and no more Snows of Kilimanjaro. He was wrong about hurricanes, the ocean, the temperature. but mostly, like all Malthusians, Gore was wrong about human ingenuity.
The UK is dealing with a Pakistani rape gang scandal larger than anything in history while the U.S. lets the Pakistanis dictate whether American voters can see a deal made in their name.
Gonna be honest. I’m really kind of tired of the whole Pakistan thing.
Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?
This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.
Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.
If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?
How do they not feel embarrassment, constantly claiming they can end all the world's problems with some small fraction of the amount of money they spend every single year?
“‘Scuse me mate, we’ve had credible reports that you’ve been watching Mr Beast after curfew - you’re going to have to come down the station with me sunshine.”
"90% support it"
Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol