I find the whole situation fascinating. Bed Bath continued to sell hundreds of millions of shares while they were preparing for bankruptcy and retail investors (or meme stock investors) continued to buy them. I assume Bed Bath did all the paperwork that is necessary (like calling out risks, that the raised capital will go to creditors first, etc) for such a stock sale. But it is clear they were doing it out of bad-faith to the new investors.

As usual Matt Levine's take on this is a good read.

i really don’t understand how it came to this anyway. the industry is so stubborn. what is not clear here? you should not spy on your site visitors for marketing purposes.

when you join a poll you do so with consent, when a market/social/political research entity invites you to a focus group (for example) you get at least a coffee and snack if not real money.

websites just get this for granted? it’s like stealing. it will never stop until the industry gets some understanding of these concepts.

except that person(s) you gave and received the cash from know who you are.

I'm really negative about the impact AI will have on the society. We have already been drowning in fake news and polarizing information.

Now, the likes of DALL-E and DeepFake can generate convincing fake graphics. Chatgpt and the likes generate convincing fake news. Voice AI can generate convincing voice from small samples.

If you were afraid of your elderly relatives being scammed by people pretending to be policemen or grandchildren, now more tech-concious people will get scammed by the voice and look of their relatives. Are we really approaching the reality where we need 2FA to trust the other person is really who they are?

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> It's like Finland has suddenly shut off its power grid

So, have we observed global energy usage go down by about one Finland?

Shouldn't that be observable somehow? Shouldn't there be some power stations reducing their output as a reaction to reduced demand?

Anyone know how this would be visible, and on what kind of time frame we expect it to become visible?

I'm not claiming it hasn't happened. I just feel surprised to not see more coverage of that in this article, nor here in the comments. Energy efficiency is largely the point of this major change. Shouldn't there be graphs of the power grids everywhere showing a big drop? Maybe my expectations are just off on that.

Doesn’t make sense from an evolution theory viewpoint to me.

If that has advantages to survival, there would have to be many survivors who have experienced this.

Also, I think shark story is different from this one. At no time, that swimmer was about to die (that could change soon, but wasn’t happening yet). His brain was intact, not dying.

My personal (completely unsupported) theory for the case where your brain is actually dying is that it’s plasticity of the brain at work. As brain cells die, the brain moves around the most important stuff to keep it in working cells. That, to me, makes evolutionary sense. You could use that kind of machinery all your life. That it goes into overdrive when it doesn’t help anymore because your entire brain is about to die would be a side effect.

Alternatively, it’s because we’re living in a simulation, and the caches get flushed to more permanent storage, starting with the more important stuff ;-)

Do you really think that FB's >100million users in Europe don't want to use Facebook?