Pacific Gas and Electric was built by engineers, who had a mandate to transfer huge amounts of power across very large and difficult terrain. When the management in the 1950s post-WWII society had this mandate, they executed amazing feats of engineering with very reliable outcomes. Much later, the very stable and profitable grid attracted a new kind of management, those interested in money. New kind of cost-cutting around maintenance, new kinds of labor relations involving non-union subcontractors, and a lot of advanced financial engineering involving using money to make money, took over from the previous internal culture. This was executed carefully and with a lot of control, and was successful, until the de-regulation of the electricity markets and then Enron.
Within a very short time frame, the previously iron-clad engineering of 1950s PG&E was defeated and failed, under new economic regulation. Read a couple of books about it, there are many.
What was discovered in the emergency proceedings that occurred in California during the California power grid crisis orchestrated by Enron and others, was that the upper management of PG&E had found legal loopholes in their very strict oversight, and were using dubiously declared shell companies to purchase power generating assets across the entire USA. Once those assets were purchased, and out of sight of regulators, more financial engineering took place. But the entire situation was discovered during the blackout hearings.
source: an attorney who worked for Sacramento directly involved in those hearings.
A "free market" is an attractive statement to some, politically, but we are very far down the road already for some of those experiments.
What you have typed does not address anything the person you are responding to said.
With those 50 million subscribers, how much do they pay and how much do they cost? That is the only relevant piece of information when discussing the investment and returns of OpenAI.
business is contextual, and is a game of numbers? If you agree, then there is a difference between "I made money selling lemon drinks at my driveway, but I sold a car to make room" .. versus "I have recurring revenue of 50 million x $80 USD per month, and it is growing, and I am using cheap credit to build that" .. Numbers have a meaning, and the larger dollar recurring revenue cannot be matched in any way, no matter how much I spend. IIR ChatGPT is the fastest adopted software in the history of the Internet.
I disagree -- I suspect that no one expected this banal item to be put on such a visible public spot (front page YNews). I'll assert that it is the filters and amplification that is so changed, and results like this occur. It was a dramatic media statement at the time to talk about a "long tail" of worth and specialization, and there was a collective excitement about making an Internet where some assistant teacher writing just a handout that strikes a certain nerve or chord and then the world gets it in seconds.
In this case, considering the tech-sociology of the writing, I'll say that the security researcher in another post gets it right -- mercilessly hone in on contradictions or unintended consequences, and quickly.
for anyone reading this, many major Universities with Law schools or related serious matters, have published explicit rules about LLM use and writing, for different contexts already.. long ago..
feedback -- painting and screen luminescence are fundamentally different. Secondly, the chase after "most famous" seems to show the motivation here.
AI generated arts, IMHO, is an economic F-U to the people who spend real years of their lives to train in arts, and to the people who spend more time after that to teach.
its because some people learned to put meaning into different ways to layout dense expressions, or different kinds of comments in difference contexts.
python was "weird" at first to C-tribe, because of the strict layout used to eliminate some of the syntax tokens. These stories come from a time before "order over all" in some factory code base was seen as Universally a virtue of some kind
anecdata - in Berkeley CA, in the late 2010s, two individuals showed up to be in the fast-paced AD scene. One was from a former Soviet Union country, who spoke English pretty well .. and the other a woman from Columbia .. to say that both of these two were "aggressive" is an understatement. He spoke English, she was in charge of "security" .. after a very few meetups, they both formed a company for "Ad tech for Hospitals" .. it was "heavy security" they said, and therefore did not discuss any details in public. They very obviously would do "aggressive" actions to get into the business, defeat competitors, and satisfy ..clients? Who were they satisfying with the cultural norms, constantly aggressive stance, move fast and break things approach? Every single person involved had the motivation of Big Money, Now.
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