Readit NewsThe things that don't look hard to beginners (because there's no immediate danger) are usually questions around activity and positional advantages. Should you get rid of your opponent's central knight, but give them your long-range bishop? Should you take with the pawn in the center and explode the position or bring the rook behind it first?
Those are the truly hard things in chess. Maybe this changes if you're a high-level player, but I'm not.
like, of course AI is coming for culture if even the New Yorker, a very well known American cultural magazine, is willing to leverage it to avoid paying an artist to create a short video.
The article doesn't even argue that AI is exclusively horrible and must be banished.
I genuinely wonder what happens when media consumption is disassembled from its previous forms. Part of that has already happened where podcasts, shows and movies are now being created for the TikTok clips.
The few times I've watched TikTok, I realized recommendation algorithms with human-generated content are already impossible to ignore and best excised. They absorb attention because that's what they're designed to do.
I don't want to know what happens when the algorithms just experiment on our attention by themselves because they're hooked up to the actual generation of the content they'll push. When they form hypotheses on what we'll pay attention to, autonomously generate the content and push it out, where does that take us?
My hope is that these things will become like smoking: Available for adults, generally accepted to be a bad thing and stigmatized to do around other people.
It's not just about surviving a downtown and unforseen circumstances with some luck (like the sibling talking about FedEx barely making it). Tesla, for example, was famously extremely close to bankruptcy.
But SBF got into the situation he was in due to his egregious fraud. The accounting at FTX was a criminal joke, with multiple sets of books, bypassable controls, outright fake numbers. My guess is that if SBF had survived that particular BTC downturn that his extreme hubris and willingness to commit fraud would have eventually done him in - downturns always happen at some point, and his brazenness in his criminal enterprise showed no signs of learning from mistakes.
Sure, all hugely successful companies have a ton of luck involved. But I think it's a mistake to pretend that SBF was just done in by bad timing, or that all companies do what he did. His empire collapse was pretty inevitable IMO if you look at what a clown show FTX was under the covers.
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