On the one hand, this is objectively grotesque and there should be laws that better prohibit this kind of misuse of surrogacy.
On the other hand, I don’t trust that the WSJ didn’t develop this story with top-down ulterior motives - namely to shift public (and possibly actual Justices’) attitude in favor of Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship ahead of the Supreme Court case.
Subsidies are coarse and indirect, and unfortunately unless you build in explicit price controls (and would either party even consider that?) the market will not stop charging prices that now people have demonstrated they will pay.
At best they will slightly lower prices but nowhere near as reliable as tariffs raised them, and also inefficiently divide that benefit of the subsidy with the business that will skim extra profit now at the expense of taxpayers. I.e., a citizen still paying more for less.
And even if the tariffs were revoked today, prices are effectively permanently higher. There is no mechanism to lower prices in the way tariffs have raised them.
The first week after Sora was released, characters were shown doing all sorts of brand-unsafe things. OpenAI spoke with companies after that and created blocked term lists to prevent characters and certain interactions with them.
That is fairly coarse “limiting.” However, user red-teaming still makes it possible to show copyrighted characters doing objectionable things. That will likely continue once this is released, unless they are doing something different (like having output be re-reviewed by a secondary AI system and actively exclude the output’s description of negative portrayals rather than just user prompt terms).
JD: Why won’t they stop doing it? I specifically demanded it.
Two observations:
He always denies more strongly when criticisms are true. This seems to be reflexive, probably stemming from his Roy Cohn, escalate-everything training. So I take this as evidence he has serious health issues.
Whenever he uses words outside his normal vocabulary, it’s because someone has used them to him recently. Since reporting has confirmed Bondi is preparing a report on “anti-American” terrorism (presumably at Trump’s direction, even if he remembered to send that message privately this time) that Ken Klippenstein has evidence will just be criminalizing opposition, we may actually be approaching the phase of fascism where people are arrested and charged with treason for criticizing Trump.
Wow, thanks!
Very interesting. I followed BD circumvention on the doom9 forums from that link decades ago, but it looks like the VUK database method is more reliable now.
Is there some version of Handbrake or workaround for BD copy protection? This is the excerpt from the site, and matches my understanding that it isn’t a circumvention tool:
Supported Input Sources:
Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Thanks for sharing this review, it’s great to see your reviews and interviews here.
I’ve seen a similar recent DS-emulation system review and they were playing Rhythm Heaven, and what really looked like it would bother me is the emulation input latency (it appeared roughly 10-20ms). Have you played Rhythm Heaven or other latency-sensitive games and do you notice any input delay?
Yeah, sure, but it’s not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it’s $300-450. That isn’t just because it’s not “cutting edge,” that’s extreme demand compared to supply.
Which LLM is this from, ChatGPT?
DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.
Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!
If ICE members know there will be no arrest and therefore no punishment, how will officers “stop” them?
Yeah, this 100% only works (but I think does work) with a reliable physical chain of trust, since we’re not yet in an age where you can Mission Impossible mask social engineer trust face-to-face. Not a great plan if this isn’t a USB drive handed directly to them, though.
You could always package them with everything they need to watch, like VLC (which should be able to read most formats anyway). Not clear if they are all on Windows, but perhaps you could include the portable VLC version that doesn’t require an install and make an obvious-named VLC playlist file for them to open.
My feeling is, it’s worse if we are one step closer to effective state-controlled media, but yes, all valid points
Oh, sure, if your horses are all in the same place.
Children are a fixed cost, and all fixed costs become insignificant exponentially fast as you become super rich.
$200,000 to raise a child until age 18 is four years’ wages if you make $50,000 a year, and after living expenses, unsustainably unaffordable.
Elon Musk makes $24 million an hour. He can afford 120 more children through age 18 every hour.
Even with surrogacy costs added, it’s next to nothing to billionaires, just more assets and a different kind of wealth they can create.