Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.
I don't celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won't miss him one bit.
Impact in this scenario: gay different. Gay scary. Only straight - no other. Gay wrong. Read study hard. Consider thoughts hard. Listen YouTube easy - confirm gay wrong, confirm gay scary. Make feel smart.
This is an overstatement of course, but yeah. Empathy and learning are hard, and you can pretty much count on people taking the easy path most of the time, so cons will always look for an easy out. Solutions are improved education and fact checks, rigorous reporting and broadcasting laws, and anything you can do to make things that are different less 'scary' to cons. As you will no doubt be thinking: none of that is what the current US govt and conservative leadership are doing, they are utterly captured by grifters who hijack their fear 24-7 to keep them in line with their causes and to keep them easily manipulated, and they attack any groups doing the opposite.
I think it's saying you can't escape Twitter posts being reposted everywhere.
Like this utterly valueless reply from @vincedmonroy, when we could have just had a quote of Marc Ruffalo's statement from the Oscars, which other commenters have posted.
This explains why there is such a high concentration of gay people in Arkansas, where flouride is naturally high in much of the drinking water. They also have the fourth-highest fluoridation rate across counties in the USA.
The other states with the highest fluoridation rates?
North Dakota
South Dakota
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia, and
Illinois
Ah yes, the 'who's who' list of gay metropolises that you'd expect to find if water fluoridation makes people gay.
Yeah, that certainly addresses that issue. I may do the same in the future, just haven't found the need to do so as yet. For most who lean on AI for the simple tasks mentioned above, they use an AI service rather than a local model.
'I'll just use it for meaningless stuff that nobody was going to get paid for either way' is at the surface-level a reasonable attitude; personal songs generated for friends as in-jokes, artwork for home labels, birthday parties, and your examples.. All fair because nobody was gonna pay for it anyway, so no harm to makers.
But I don't personally use them for any of those things myself though, some of my reasons: I figure it's just investor-subsidized CPU cycles burning power somewhere (environmental), and ultimately that use-case won't be a business model that makes any money (propping the bubble), it dulls and avoids my own art-making skills which I think everyone should work on (personal development atrophy), building reliance on proprietary platforms... so I'd rather just not, and hopefully see the whole AI techbro bubble crash sooner than later.
But if you did it in a religious ritualistic ceremony and sucked the blood off the tip of the babies dicks afterwards, well that wouldn't be weird now, would it.
His opinion is actually that AI can use his code no problem, they just have to pay a fee.
The problem is that the big LLM AI companies will just say.. 'Fuck off', because they don't like paying for any data, and they also think their models will be advanced enough to write their own libraries soon (if not now, depending how much they believe their own marketing hype).
Pricing is an additional unanswered problem in his new model. As a hypothetical: if 1000 traditional OSS users generate $1000 value in conversion to paid users in his old model - what would an AI license cost? Because one license (eg to Anthropic/Claude) would theoretically be cutting off millions of users, maybe 80%+ of his userbase. Would he ask for millions as a licensing fee?
Whole idea is half-baked IMO, but I am sympathetic to the bullshit situation he finds himself in.
It is a four year contract. OpenAI is hoping they'll be able to suppress their competitors long enough to regain their lead and firmly establishe a dominant position in the market.
I'm not too worried though for two reasons. First, I'm confident they'll eventually be in breech of their memory contracts for being unable to pay - as the whole AI market is a house of cards, and has no real path to profitability beyond hopes and dreams. Banks and angel investors will eventually start asking 'where are the profits' and begin pulling out the rug. Second, the chip suppliers began ramping up production (as you suggest) some time back, so the current crazy price increase should only be temporary once they have increased supply output in a year or so. They would have to sign new contracts to get their '40% deal' again, and the memory giants will have much higher price demands for any such deals in future, and I don't think OpenAI will have the money.
Sam Altman / OpenAI recognized that they were losing their LLM market lead to rapid advances by Google Gemini and others, so they took the most anti-competitive step they could.
They determined that the key inputs for AI advances and market leadership now were access to high speed storage and graphics processing - whether directly or via contract to datacenters as-yet unbuilt.
They already had significant contracts and share-trade arrangements with Nvidia - whom is happily gouging the AI Bros for all they can. What everyone in that market needs though, is high speed memory chips for SSDs, RAM, and graphics card memory. So, they secretly negotiated two contracts simultaneously with the two largest memory chip manufacturers to aquire ~40% of the memory market supply.
They have agreed to buy memory chips wholesale, unuseable until they go through further manufacturing to install them intp RAM/SSDs/GFX - but OpenAI has zero facilities or contracts to perform those steps, and as yet has made no public announcement (that I've seen) of their actual plans for what to do with the chips they've entered contracts to buy.
It is a strategy called 'market denial', and we are all paying for it with much higher prices for anything that needs these chips or is tangential to those markets.
AI bubble will pop when the datacenters that are financed to be completed in the first quarter fail to meet their deadlines, and continue to fail to meet them mid-year. Banks will pull loans, and rapidly, the dominoes will fall. I doubt OpenAI will survive 2026 (fingers crossed), Nvidia may, since theyre actually shipping products and making sales off the bubble - they'll take a big hit, as will Microsoft, Google, Facebook. It will cause a worldwide recession if not a financial crisis. 75% chance by EOY.
Trump will die. His health has circled the drain for years, and there's only so many medical interventions that can be applied. 50% chance.
I'll finally wash my car (been putting it off all 2025), 95% chance.
Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.
I don't celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won't miss him one bit.
Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views