Maslow, but anti-intellectualism doesn’t help

Over 5 years for me too, and i actually called them up to ask if they were a scam the first month because it was so easy to sign up and cheap for unlimited data.

They said “no” and i said “okay”.

Nope! Visible is owned by Verizon but fortunately offers different services and functions separately.

Human customer service, remote setup, actual unlimited plans, 20 bucks a month, no contracts.

Visible is functionally different and a better customer experience than verizon and other providers in every way, they just get to use verizon networks.

Visible with unlimited data and hotspots: more versatile, cheaper and less time-consuming than dealing with either of those fuckers.

You mean the independent source I provided several messages ago you’re trying hard not to acknowledge?

You’ve got to learn personal and community responsibility sooner or later. You can make wild claims, but since they’ve already been disproved, you’re going to have to provide evidence eventually.

This is kind of what I’m wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.

This is why you should provide a source, your numbers and associated assumptions are incorrect:

Chatgpt has estimated revenue of 1.3 billion, not 13 billion, neither of which are remotely significant as revenue streams relative to cost.

That’s the thrust of my opening paragraph, and then you appear to have taken up my drop in the bucket analogy, so i guess we’re on the same page now.

Yes; the included source and explanatory paragraph above in the same comment you are referencing.

Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?

Nope, you’ll certainly need a source to back that speculation up.

Half a billion people are “using” AI and the total llm market cap is a few billion. On average, users may be willing to pay up to 50 cents a month for inaccurate word association.

Not even a drop in the buckets companies need to fill up with everything they’re spending just on advertising, not to mention infrastructure, utility and upgrade costs.

People are statistically not willing to sustainably pay for llms, even if we assumed the rosy predictions of 20x LLM market caps in a decade.

Devil’s advocate: Increased AI cash flow could occur if people don’t realize their ai “search results” are paid advertisements, and considering longstanding obliviousness to directed advertising and the recent abolishment of US consumer rights…it could happen.

Chatgpt is constantly losing money, public surface-level interest won’t matter much when the capital runs out and they’re still accruing significant debt without any revenue.

Awesome, you got it!

I’ve also added the state programs information to my original comment, so I’m glad you brought it up.

I was kind of blown away when i first found about this and got into a long talk with a ranger who explained it all to me, so I certainly understand your skepticism.

Up until that point, I literally knew nobody who cut down their own Christmas trees, and now a few of my friends also get their own trees every year.

6 foot trees have fairly thin trunks, so all you need is any trail saw, I’ve even used a hatchet, and you’ll harvest the tree in a manner of minutes.

“if vitamins were effective, they’d use them for beating children!”

You’re misunderstanding the use of debate.

Nope, but I understand your assumptions.

The US has conifers everywhere, and the link above is for a single collective of federally managed public lands, but does not include every other state-run and private organization that sells Christmas tree permits across the US.

If you can’t find yourself in any of the states above, it’s likely you live in a state with state-run Christmas tree programs. Texas, Oklahoma, any state not in the half of the US listed above will have other state resources for Christmas tree permits and many private tree farms, which are maybe 10 dollars more but offer the same service:

Buy a permit, drive there, choose a tree, chop it down, take it home.

The alchemist is a good shout out for being so uniquely forgettable.

So far, other commenters have a pretty clear reason they didn’t like their book.

With the alchemist, we’re all just shrugging into the void left behind by something we’re sure was a disappoiintment.

Haha, jeez i forgot about these.

I think I read the first three? Such a tropey train wreck i actually had fun for the first couple.

But I was well and done after two, I was like well this is just unhealthy now by the second book you can tell childs isn’t paying any attention to plot or character development or anything that would make a story interesting, he was actively shutting my brain down.

it felt like that episode of The boondocks where Huey exclusively watches UPN as a social cognitive experiment.

That’s so funny. I was in somebody’s house and they picked up the alchemist and told me I should read it, and I asked them the same question.

“Is that about the boy who collects pebbles?”

And they told me

“Yea- well, no. I’m not really sure, i can’t remember the specifics, but it was really really good”.

And I was nice about it, but obviously if you cannot remember the main character or the point of the book at all it couldn’t have been a very significant experience for you.

You got it.

I finished it and was like omigod at least nobody I ever come across with the same morbid curiosity has to read this now.

Only way I can look at reading that book not being a complete waste of time.

This is exactly what happened to me. I was reading it for a while like okay, I guess this is kind of fun, and then a third of the way through I thought “oh wait, this is just kind of boring”.

Is that the one where the boy has a bag of pebbles?

Paper factory or something?

It is extremely babble-minded and not at all worth reading or deconstructing.

I read it in the mindset of your first question.

Turns out, any argument you can think up in 2 seconds against bigotry is going to be more insightful and well-founded than a rebuttal against nascent nazi scribblings.