One of the most rewarding parts of Smash Camp by far was the reception of the Money For Five PR lottery. Massive thank you to everyone who bought one or had kind words to say about the project. Seeing these lay strewn about the Brawl setups scratched off warmed my heart greatly.
Camp was wonderful in a way i cannot adequately espouse thank you to everyone who played in my tournament and thank you to everyone who engaged in revery with me
Pretty crazy project I just saw.
One generous dude is putting up $100,000 in bounties for low and middle tiers to perform well in majors this year.
For instance, if you get Top 8 with Ganondorf you’ll get $600.
Maybe I should go for Top 64 with Ness…
Fucked up my hand at work and got 11 stitches. Won't be able to work or compete at Smash Camp this weekend. The least you can all do is watch my clip reel </3
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.