True. Culture, history, etc as an experience is valid.

It is where people pretend it is important to quality and taste, I call bullshit.

As for the experience… If the old bearded Italian man who served you traditional cheesemelt pig in wooden clogs while singing Por Trancone Parditto were to, say, replace the cheese with Swedish Gulost and not tell you… You would have the same experience.

Not saying it’d be the same, but that the food taste and quality are entirely separate from the authenticity.

Ah I see you are enjoying yourself. Would you care to know that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself incorrectly?

There is no joy to be had the way you are doing it. If there is, it is a fault in your character.

Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.

Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.

For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn’t tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)

Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

A Celebrity Does A Grift.

This happens a lot.

In crypto, it usually goes like this: Celebrity makes a coin. Uses fans goodwill to make them buy in. Coin gets rugpulled (oh no!) as in the celebrity and their tech friend cash out and leave the fans with a dead coin worth 1% of what they paid.

The celebrity will then say they were flimflammed. Fooled. Duped. Tricked. Teary apology. Very sad. Victim like you and me. Very also kept the advance $50k from the tech people. Also kept the cash they got from rugpulling. Don’t ask about that.

“CEO of shoddily coded autocomplete app says it will kill us all and he should get a trillion dollars to stop it.”

Basically the same headline repeated 8392 times the past three years, just phrased differently.

The privacy statements are fucking lies.

I will not share my innermost mental issues with some group of 20-something “move fast and break things” sociopaths in Silicon Valley.

He’s really getting under my skin. I think I will go over there and give him a piece of my mind.

I mean yeah? As a PC gamer what are you supposed to use? Fucking… Windows?

I know some people still manage to tolerate paying Microsoft for an operating system that serves popup ads, popunder ads, inline ads, bundles spyware, bundles adware, bundles malware, and literally spies on you. They either manage to filter all that out or tolerate having to spend time turning it off or mitigating it every two weeks/months when an update introduces more of it.

They angrily cope. They say things like “what is so hard about just clicking Close / Ignore on a few buttons!?” when this is pointed out. But they grow fewer and fewer.

Macs are mostly valid but expensive. If work doesn’t pay for one, or you have another big hobby that makes Mac a necessity, buying one for gaming is a bit silly.

I’m going to work on my “Pyanodon Madness” Factorio save. I think I have to just give in and create properly engineered buffering stations for all the byproducts.

MCP and agents are hats-on-hats-on-LLMs, so you are not describing different types of AI here.

The use is evolving, towards lesser use. The drawbacks are becoming clearer and the significant subsidies are drying up.

I mean I could accept a diesel locomotive had a usecase in driving a whisk to whip cream for my latte, if someone else paid for it.

When I have to pay the cost myself… I’d just use an old fashioned luddite electric whisk and be left behind by all the super efficient diesel locomotive baristas.

Easy mnemonic to teach the month names to your kids!

Another, Year, Passes, Us, By, And, We, All, Die, In, The, End.

The waste is the point.

It needs to be more expensive, because that can be leveraged for higher valuations.

Yeah, friend of mine did that as a hobby project 8ish years ago. You can do that with just a small self-trained language model.

So, with AI as in the current RAM-sucking, earth-boiling monstrosities that are being pushed? No, it’s not a valid use case for that AI because it was already solved.

Yeah, you’d have to change the plug.

No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.

I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.

Never thought to try it when I had the chance.

If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.

Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I need to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.

ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.