Google is a terrible example. They are assisting in the destruction of the Internet for their own gain, never mind the while AI data centers destroying the environment thing.

The only way I managed it was with audiobooks.

FPGAs are going to be way more expensive. It's possible, but the cost-to-performance ratio would be abysmal.

My dude, you are in the wrong community.

AI slop is an order of magnitude worse.

Now, all someone needs to do is give a four-sentence prompt, and it can be expanded into a twenty-page essay. It is essentially an attack on human attention... it still takes you twenty minutes to read the essay that only really is about that four-sentence prompt. The information density is intentionally diluted to ridiculous levels.

At least someone had to make the effort to write those cheap texts.

And who made those resources scarce, Sam? WHO MADE THEM SCARCE???

also screw you for trying to make the answer to 'How should those resources be allocated?' be 'In the way that best enriches me personally'.

Battle.NET and verifying Diablo II keys existed before that.

The problem is that bad coders and artists sometimes become good coders and artists. You're killing off the pipeline by removing their source of income, and eventually you have few -to-no good coders or artists.

33 / 2 = 16.5
16.5 + 7 = 23.5
23.5 < 24

You're fine.

It's really, really hard to find a new manual these days that isn't, like, a sports car. When I bought my little manual-transmission hatchback in 2016 I'm pretty sure I was getting the last vestiges.

Not with all the online functionality though.

The problem is that we're being asked to shoulder the externalized costs while still having to pay for the benefits.

Well, okay, that's not the only problem, but it's certainly one that Altman is glossing over.