Even if individual services like Sora are run at a loss, they can be fine with that as long as the rest of the company makes money. Amazon literally runs its entire shopping and warehousing service at a loss.
OpenAI is very much intentionally offering its service at unprofitable rates right now to spur growth, it's a tried and true strategy for tech companies. But don't mistake this for them not being able to make money if they wanted to; they've only begun to explore monetization so far.
Again, they are setting up data centers to train new model, not run existing ones. If OpenAI stopped working on GPT-6 today, they would immediately be profitable.
That's really not how it works, it doesn't cost much to run an existing model, what costs a lot is training new/bigger models.
AI is here to stay, even if the bubble bursts all that means is work on new models stops/slows down. But current models are already good enough for slop.
Go further east though (i.e. India, China), and concepts of cosmic order become prominent, though said order typically transcends mere deities.
Western and near-east polytheists tended to conceptualize deities as being simple facts of life that you had to work around because they existed and were powerful. They worshipped them for favors or to avoid their wrath, not because they embodied some cosmic order.
Oh no Japan is definitely a lot worse, respecting elders is one of their most important social rules
I know the cost of living crisis is real but c'mon. At least some of it has got to be from people living on their own who not knowing how to take care of themselves and therefore must make up for it by spending more money.
local rule will have better outcomes than rule by more distant powers, especially once network effects and economies of scale kick in.
Of course, the vast majority of imperialism is simply exploitation, so it is always good to be suspicious of claims to the contrary.
In the latter situation, the results can sometimes be net positive and have the support of the populace (i.e. the Roman Empire being the classic Western example).
Remember, the goals of local elites are not necessarily aligned with the general population, so it's not necessarily the case that
Broadly speaking, I think imperialism falls into two categories: exploitation vs nation-building. In the former, the imperial simply seeks to exploit foreign resources and labor to enrich their society, while in the later they seek to actually integrate the populace into their society.
It is, but it also massively improved the quality of life of the average Tibetan (who were literally serfs under the Tibetan feudal system). Likely a plurality of Tibetans supported it at the time, and certainly a vast majority do today.
More than they have a vast system of support networks, logistics, fundraising, communication, not to mention brand and name recognition that are important to running a successful political party at the federal level. It'd be much easier to take it over than to rebuild from scratch
At this point I think of the Democrats as a kind of infrastructure that would be useful to keep intact once it is in the control of more capable people as opposed to an actual functioning political party.
I need everyone who's ever clowned on the Art of War for stating the obvious to apologize to Sun Tzu right now
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Well they were named Mark I, II, III etc. which is what they tend to be referred by
The greatest irony about blanket tariffs is that, because of how modern manufacturing works, it'll still be cheaper to manufacture things outside of the US because then you only have to pay the tariffs once.
Oh gosh this was such a hard game, good luck
"AI democratizes art" is such an annoying take cause no one saying it gives a shit about democracy
It probably says something bad about society that educational media is now just ridiculous conspiracy nonsense
Also looking at you, History Channel
I turned my eyes into a laser point defense in Warudo!
I can't think of a more tangible and direct admission of American decline from our leaders than this.
—if Chinese products are allowed to compete fairly with them in the US.
The "national security" concern is that without these tariffs the US is going to be economically imperialized by the Chinese, which would have been unimaginable thing to suggest even just 10 years ago.
The business class rolling over on the tariffs is remarkable, because it indicates that US industry, as a whole, feels it is incapable of competing with foreigners (mainly China), and has given up on trying. They have calculated that the short-term losses from tariffs outweigh the long-term losses—
This was absolutely the case; before it sci fi in visual media was mostly thought of as campy fun B-movies. 2001 not only put sci-fi on the map of serious genres, but also defined the look for all sci-fi to come, as before it spaceships were always sleek and shiny.
Goals for 2025
> Open discord server
> Debut live2d
> Finish an animation
> Finish homebrew DND campaign
My default stance is that nothing sponsoring so many YouTubers can possibly be good
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