Her and RFK Jr I think are the true believers with respect to their stances compared to the broader sea of exploitative grifters.

That said, I’m not sure whether the grifters or the true believers are more dangerous…

MTG entered office as a ‘the establishment is corrupt, all the conspiracy theories are real’ under Biden.

Now that ‘her team’ has won, now the establishment is all corrupt and there’s tons of actual conspiracies… So in a way, she’s actually shockingly consistent…

I think that unlike some others in the maga leadership, she was a true believer. She believed in all the most dubious deep state conspiracy theories. She thought this movement was about purging deep state corruption, and replacing it with some more meritocratic system. A big old dose of racism in there but with her rationalizing it with convenient conspiracy theories.

Now she’s faced with more blatant objective evidence of conspiracies. So she gets turned a bit by the betrayal.

Over a long enough time span, I think MTG is doomed to always, eventually turn against whomever is ostensibly “in charge”. She’ll go for conspiracy theories and of course the people in charge are to blame.

For all intensive purposes, it doesn’t matter. Case and point, I understood fine.

No need to call out a clanker as an escape goat.

Ultimately it’s all a moo point.

Those metrics aren’t any more trustworthy than their own subjective word anyway. If they wanted to say they took more time then they could delay at their whim anyway. If they said their production costs increased, then again, they could spend the money to fit the narrative. On those particular points objective evidence is so susceptible to being gamed that it isn’t really more valuable than their subjective reporting.

Numbers of subscribers/views could be a bit more informative, but then people inclined to disbelieve would claim it’s because of any number of other reasons not because of AI slop.

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Killing in this case sounds like the content is becoming harder and harder to create, which they lay out the subjective case for, but that wouldn’t be exactly something they could use figures to present, since it’s so subjective.

The one point they might have been able to show with numbers would be the emergence of AI slop ‘infotainment animations’ diluting the audience, but that wasn’t exactly the biggest point of the video and it might be a bit early to be able to demonstrate statistically credible evidence on that one.

Also, presuming they are sincere and put in all that effort, they are competing with other sources that have no such discipline and they are able to flood the field and grab eyeballs faster than they could.

It’s so fun when it’s so specific about some detail with casual confidence that is based on absolutely nothing at all. I know ultimately it’s architecture is more akin to a predictive word generator, but it seems so much better.

Saw a clear demonstration and it is wild that the output is consistent, but at least in the model I saw being run, every word is generated without it having considered what the word after would be or what the general concept it is going for. For a human one has to already know the concept before he/she starts putting words to it, but at least the models I’ve seen explained with detail, it manages to assemble it word by word without knowing where it is trying to go in advance.

I’m with you, it seemed still sufficiently performative to be really intended to get his base in on the pressure to go after his personal enemies.

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He’s so much worse than Trump himself

If in March he announces an end to the tariffs and prices have a sudden relief, then the GOP can sail in on the realization of lower prices.

It’s easier to make things better when you deliberately make them worse first. There’s the lovely strategic thing of the non-election year.

I don’t get it but for whatever reason he has an enthusiastic following specific to him.

There are a number of races where people tried to ride his popularity, but unless Trump is directly in the race, it doesn’t seem to matter so much.

Oh man, I remember seeing things go from burned in subs to sub tracks with all kinds of nice functional markup and managed font color schemes and such to… Slapping white text with no border/shadow in the bottom middle of the video unconditionally without formatting…

What about a compromise, Trump doesn’t get one but we also rescind Obama’s? I like Obama and all, but that peace prize was not really warranted.

Obama is certainly way way better than Trump, but the peace prize was silly.

Note that even if by all practical terms a business isn’t growing, then it’s still growing.

Part of the whole deal is that there’s an intent for the money supply to change for a roughly 2% inflation. In an oversimplified sense, the idea being that everything gets 2% more expensive, everyone gets 2% raises, and investments at least generate 2% returns.

We’ve basically decided that we need to trick ourselves into feeling progress by making “standing still” look like growth. So if someone had flat income year over year, they actually lost in real terms.

Kind of miss how much effort went into fan subs, with notes explaining things that didn’t exactly translate without context…

Another fair point, that we could be targeting a more distributed “retirement” instead of taking it all at the end. How we model it so that we are comfortable with the concept wild be interesting… when and if we ever get there

Of course, the ideal is not just about discontinuing labor participation due to disability, but because we actually want some time insofar as we can afford it.

A mark of, ideally, a bit of ‘overproduction’ is that we can work fewer hours and/or fewer years. If our ambitions and capabilities allow us to work 32 hour workweeks for a decade and then nope on out on retirement in our 30s for the rest of our lives, that would be a pretty good economic state to be in. A fantasy in practical terms, but a concept to keep in mind as a hypothetical if we ever do manage amazing ‘productivity’ without enough ‘ambition’ to consume it all.