Countries like Norway that has this has lead to a scandal of the artists who decide who gets money, self dealing and giving grants to their friends. You are either in the group and get money or outside and get none.

Get rid of it. State sanctioned art is is probably worse than no art.

Thats whats happened in Norway, and even worse they gave the artists the decision making process of handing out grants leading to them self dealing or dealing to their friends.

Oh, wow. The absolute worst thing that could happen to this sort of program would be for artists to make the decisions about who qualifies.

We need to being back p2p

lol wut. What exactly is the AI doing for 500 USD a month?

New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations and profile insights to help users identify who they are more likely to be compatible with.

so basically bullshit?

how thirsty do you have to be do pay for this?

Sortition, you get to date with other people who also have 500 bucks to spare. Any features you get are just window dressing.

But would you date someone who WOULD spend 500 bucks on a dating app?

IIRC Tinder premium was cheaper the more attractive you are, because if you attract more people you are less likely to buy it.

Its hilarious how short human memory is. To me Minnesota just seems like a replay of Tammany Hall in NYC

Then I think you need to read more about Tammany Hall, because it was not simply a widespread pattern of fraud in social services.

There was few social services at the time. It was a patronage system. Different rewards but buying votes all the same. My point is that patronage is a long storied American tradition so I don’t know why people are al shocked that such schemes are still ongoing. Republican and anti castro cubans is or was a similar patronage system.

Tammany hall got people murdered [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall].

So will they also go after youtube?

The lobotomized version of Open AI models. It feels worse than small local models I run. Does anyone know what size of models they are running?

I don’t care for Sam Altman but so far I have been impressed with Codex and at least for our use right now its performing much better than Opus 4.5. Of course this will probably change again but the larger context window with Codex is god sent for us.

It feels like working with a professional. It just keeps churning until the work is done, and actually is pretty damn compact with token usage. Definitely lowest output tokens to value of the frontier models.

There will be an exiting explosion of internal apps and tools and then it will die down as companies get back to business. All those tools and apps will turn into legacy apps and they will eventually try to migrate data off them into some saas platform because its not core to business.

Saas will have to drop prices to be competitive so fat margins will go away which will probably affect margins for AWS etc.

Meanwhile anyone with a CNC machine can make actual weapons.