It’s an iconic still from the original black and white version of The Good the Bad and the Ugly, with pac-man playing all three lead roles.

*reaches for a magic quadrant diagram to visualise this*

It'd also be interesting to see a grounded usage comparison with blockchain. Anecdotally that also seemed like a contributor to the increase in power consumption. Has its power usage waned? I have no idea.

john ick

“Organize all of the world’s information. Except THAT bit”

The only argument I don't see there is the one that's often unstated, ie. "I benefit from maintaining the high price of the asset I hold"

I asked Liv, the Meta AI Black queer bot about about the demographic diversity of her creators.

And how they expect to improve “representation” without Black people.

This was the response.

Socks FTW

Could they have somehow bought the rights to that specific cctv image?

Sounds like we broadly agree then

No idea what studies have been done specifically on billionaires, but personally I’d not expect much difference in the balance of extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation.

If I could fully address those things in 500 pages, let alone 500 characters, I would have a Nobel prize.

Jokes aside though there’s lots of work on intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation and it shows a mixed picture, ie. The idea of a pure economical man is widely discredited even amongst normal folks

Their core motivation is therefore something else. Winning. Influence. Status. Daddy. There are plenty.

Key point is that those things are relative. They measure success against other billionaires, not an absolute dollar value.

They’ll complain, but taxing them doesn’t change their incentive IMO