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I've occasionally heard people suggest that at some point AI companies are going to run out of money, the cost of using AI will shoot up, demand will collapse, and the AI bubble will be over. At first glance this risk seems real. OpenAI spent $25 billion in the first...
Europe (and the UK) have strong protections for flyers in the case of delayed or cancelled flights. However very few people are aware of these, and airlines will almost always try to wriggle out of paying up. Even travel agents are often unaware of these laws, or unwilling to fight...
Contra Aella on chattel childhood Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their children: > Every culture throughout history has justified the abuse of treating their children as property by arguing this is good for them and good for civilization. Kids...
A pattern I've noticed among authors I enjoy is that their short stories are often very sedately paced, with a lot of descriptive prose and not much action. But their long stories are peppered with fast dynamic scenes and they avoid detailed descriptions as much as they can get away...
My aunt's family are ultra orthodox Jews, and I used to stay with them occasionally in Bayit Vegan for Shabbat. Once I went for a walk with my cousins. Families there sometimes have dozens of children squashed into tiny apartments, and with the streets closed for Shabbat, the road becomes...
I recently had a two day training course at work where they made a big fuss about Myers-Briggs personality tests, and ensuring that we learn to play to our strengths and identify weaknesses based on this test. Looking it up after the course, I saw that Wikipedia's view on it...
The Question Like every other confusing word, time is overloaded. It means at least two different things: 1: The direction in which entropy increases, and hence in which we experience things. 2: That one dimension of the 4 dimensions of spacetime that is timelike in the Lorentzian sense. Namely, the...