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Starting a business to pay myself a nice salary from Venture Capital money while I work on a failed project and my team is eventually acquihired by a BigCo is just working for a BigCo with extra steps.

@futurebird So the crappy kinds of search results we see today? That's what success looks like for Google, meeting the needs of People of the Phone.

Have those suggesting transformative AI is imminent started a hedge fund to pay for the retirement of those who didn't save for retirement because they expected the world to end?

_Jesus Revolution_

25% Boomer nostalgia, 25% Ministerial, 50% Historical docudrama, they somehow manage to mostly dodge being a Christian film, despite being a film about people coming to Christianity.

Conversion is still unfilmable, but the historical story holds up.

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What movie should I watch tonight?

Marlowe or Jesus Revolution?

Consider an AI that generates hot anime girls, but over time swaps in more catgirls, then more detailed catgirls until it has groomed the user into a furry.

Do we have any idea how many TPUs there are?

(TPU is the supercomputer/cluster needed to train a modern AI.)

The only people who use the term "reverse racism" are the people who claim it's impossible.

Using the term is a tell that you're not speaking to people who are concerned about racism against white people; you're just talking _about_ them.

Oh man, I can't wait until some leftwing b-lister is revealed to have a history of posting on 4chan. That'll be an exciting day.

the three types of people who will always be in business

those who man the horrors
those who made the horrors
those who comprehend the horrors

The new historical American Girl doll is from the 90s and makes zines so I'm going to go crumble into dust now.

Me, trying to explain the Ghostbusters anime genre to my son:

Eventually, there will be a successful business, but the right bet is always: not this one.

(This thread is not really about businesses.)

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Most businesses fail.

The right guess is that a promising new business will fail.

To make a better guess than that, you'd need to get into the details.

Of course, the people starting businesses know the most about the details and they're still overconfident.

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