The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.

This is really telling. Coal industry receives large government subsidies, and solar is getting put behind a lot of red tape and permitting, etc. And despite these efforts it is still catching on.

um literally

Honestly this one is much better

Isn’t that what this is? Taxpayer bailout at the tippy top valuation?

Yes! My feelings exactly.

He’s pretty thoroughly covered how using just the available public information explains the insider deals and how demand for LLMs is not enough to justify the cost of developing at the scale that it is. It’s honestly hard to imagine what inside information could possibly worse.

Unless it’s something way out of left field like Nvidia chips are made of freeze-dried orphans or that Jeffrey Epstein invented LLMs.

I really like Ed but I’m not a fan of his style of anything lol

Oh they’ve watched DS9, it’s just that in that time since they’ve been brainwashed by some YouTuber selling anger about a perceived past that never existed to make a profit.

MRW I hear someone claim Star Trek was never dark and serious:

No, phone trees are deterministic, an LLM is non-deteministic. Voice-navigable phone trees have been around a quarter-century now. Even natural language processing apps like Siri are far more advanced than a voice-navigable phone tree and that is 15 years old.

That’s still deterministic, what you are describing has been around far, far longer than llm technology.

why do gamers™ always assume everything is created for them

let people enjoy things

why make this at all?

Wow thank you for your work 🙏

Eh, you’re not wrong but OP also picked a bad example.

I’m listening…

Funny I had a 15 year account and was never once banned from anything, ever.

I swear the threadiverse is a remote island made up of 50% idealists and 50% convicts.

That doesn’t even make sense, phone trees are deterministic.

OP is describing a phone tree, it’s a flow chart at best and have existed long before LLMs.