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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Also, the big models are in the infant stages of turning the monetization screws. This could be a tactic to knock their owners’ legs out from under them. If they can’t turn up their prices as much or as fast as they had hoped due to the competitive pressure, venture capital may begin to divest sooner. At their current debt levels, that would literally end OpenAI and I believe also Anthropic.

    If a temporary “permanent” price cut wipes out some competitors, that will make for smoother sailing in the future for them to raise prices more than they otherwise would have been able to, quickly recouping the cost of the price reduction and then all profit after that.





  • I think that for now you are still good to go with Plex. One suggestion, though: take a look at all your server and admin toggles. There are things that you may prefer to be off that are defaulted to opt-in.

    I don’t have a working server at the moment so I can’t check the latest stuff for myself, but the last time I was able to, I found some stuff I could opt out of with just a click, mostly involving the Plaex Network and keeping my user accounts strictly local.












  • That wasn’t his statement, though. He was saying that the super-rich are a tiny outlier group, so even an infrastructure personal tax that they manage to avoid will have minimal impact on the system at large, because they are so small that even heavy abuse in this scenario is a rounding error.

    I think he is insinuating that a system that works but allows tiny groups to fall through the cracks would still be acceptable for this, which I tend to agree with.

    It is much like in the past when welfare recipients were vilified because a tiny number of them found a way to qualify even though they made a bit too much money for it, or managed to double dip somehow to get more than was intended. The system still fills a need and more or less works (its grievous underfunding and paperwork hell notwithstanding) and is far better than nothing, so the statistically insignificant amount of fraud or evasion is an acceptable cost to people that understand statistics and are speaking in good faith.