It’s para social. The person consuming it feels as though they are part of a relationship. EFIT: like TV but more interactive.

“And you ain’t in it!”

There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can’t even comprehend what they don’t know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can’t easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.

Laying people off is a way to juice the stock price in the short term. So perhaps the “economy is booming” because of the layoffs?

My speculation is that they paid Sutskever a lot of money to go away and keep his mouth shut

Exactly. They exist to give legal cover so that the risk of wrongful termination lawsuits is minimized for the employer

Yes it is unfortunately common. The family members align in their identification of the scapegoat and their cohesion influences the involved therapists who do not realize the larger picture. The victims are themselves both traumatized and also inculcated family members so it is fairly common that the scapegoats do not realize how fucked up things are until they’re older. Incest families are often highly invested in a family ideal that both hides the ugliness and also enables it to flourish (because our golden boy would never do anything like that!). When the scapegoat finally figures it out and tries to tell the truth they are shut down by the defenders of the family ideal. It is easier to shun the truth teller than to accept that the family system is rotten and work to reform it. Also those who are privileged within the family frequently see nothing to gain by admitting wrongdoing and so don’t. It is as it is with any sort of privilege at the societal level. Those who have it tend not to see it and then resist giving it up even when the weight of evidence that harm is being done is large.

There is a post on lesswrong which compiles the accusations made by the sister. Having worked with many incest victims, family scapegoats and Cinderellas I’ll say the story is familiar to what I’ve heard before and therefore credible.

Sure, if they can build a data set of well tagged emotional content they’ll be able to train their machine to detect and distinguish the emotion in subsequent human samples, but that is not the same thing as a feeling machine.

Candy Mountain, Charlie!

See my comment above. In my experience, third party lightning cables stop working after a few weeks.

I’m genuinely not trying to be an apple hater. My family all have iphones and I’m constantly needing to purchase new cables as they constantly stop working. If apple is not causing this to occur via some software lockout then please help me understand why this occurs. It does not occur when I buy third party usbc cables.

Apple will probably cripple the usb-c interface so that if you buy third part cables they stop working in two weeks just like third party lightning cables do currently.

They bent us over rather than asking for consent.

Too plausible!

Some people would write books for free if they didn’t need to work to support themselves. Fame and the prestige of being a recognized expert are enough reward.