First off you don’t have statistical evidence since you also have to compare it to the number of people who were abused and haven’t abused anyone. The fact that you’re a statistic is probably because you were reported as being abusive. The reason why it seems deterministic is because non-abuse isn’t something that people report. The key word is “believe” which means you can believe whatever you want, actual experience is less malleable than belief.

Hollywood is legit dying. COVID+strikes+inflation+higher interest rates+LA fires have pretty much decimated the industry. There is cost cutting across the board. No one wants to take risks.

The fact that Bill Maher is on there with Joseph Stalin just goes to show that TV is what the world is for some people. Even though one person’s actions lead to the deaths of millions of real people and another said a joke that made you angry, it seems like the same thing because it’s all make believe. Ultimately these things are apolitical. Its people interacting with characters in a narrative–there is no real interaction with any real politics.

Not at this scale. Netflix and Uber aren’t trillion dollar companies now, and were worth way less pre-IPO. (Also neither is Anthropic–having a valuation of a trillion dollars just means that’s essentially how much you owe to investors). Anthropic and OpenAI are in insanely bad financial situations since much of the “investment” is just compute credits. To put it in perspective: it would be like you having to pay rent but you only get paid in is Applebees gift cards. They require a never before seen level of growth, which by the way, they’re already way behind on.

Sometimes when things just seem like they’re made up, it’s because they’re made up. A company that makes no profit AND is worth a trillion dollars says more about the “private marketplace” than reality.

Recently Amazon invested $5B in Anthropic tied to a commitment for Anthropic to spend $100B in AWS infrastructure over a decade. So for $5B, Amazon now has $100B of business in the books. These circular investments is just the printing of imaginary money.