This made me think about another contrast, Hayao Miyazaki. His characters ("heroes" or "villains"), usually are more morally complex and nuanced than the ones you would find in the works I typically see depicted in Hollywood. They are not just good or evil. You may not agree with their actions, but you understand the logic of it.

Ironically, Ghibli's adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea (written by Le Guin, an American author) flopped in part because Miyazaki made it much more about heroes versus villains than the original story.

That’s because the adaptation is by Gorō Miyazaki and not Hayao Miyazaki.

Let the enshittification begin.

Then you move to the paid plan, then they move ads to the paid plan, then you move to the premium-extra plan, etc.

Not "ads" in the traditional sense but no one can tell me they won't use it to steer people toward whoever is paying their bills.

What would be the metric by which they bill for it?

Interesting, looking at it from that side. How does it work with traditional real world ads, billboards for example. I'd expect them to have a similar challenge. Not whether the ad was put in front of people, but the high level impact of the whole campaign.

How would advertisers know whether OpenAI even applied the ad to the paid for number of people's conversations, I don't know.

This was posted in Show HN today [0]. Looks like queries just query ChatGPT themselves for whatever terms they want to track and then correlate revenue with that. But ChatGPT will probably do it like affiliate links, where there is a tracking parameter or cookie that identifies that it came from ChatGPT.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642490

Thanks for the info, I was looking for this. I have the "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" that I bought years ago and it is an fantastic deal.

If you unlock a lock, that's still a lock.

Also, in light of everything that is happening, is incredible that the top comment on this thread is about some minor semantic definitions.

Yeah but there was no lock; somebody put a box around the doorknob without anything holding it there, and somebody removed the box and opened the door.

There's nothing else to say about this. Also, your comment is nested even deeper within the same semantic squabbling, so it's odd that you think that it's a waste of time in light of more important things that you are also not talking about.

Oh, I wish I could do something like that for my Nokia N800.

Awesome. I while ago I was playing around some JS graphic/game engine/frameworks and came across Kaboom (now Kaplay) and it stroke me as a really different approach to the whole thing. I am now again playing with it and it's really impressive and fun.

Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

Just watched a podcast on this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-death-o...

I was reading the comments trying to find something similar to this. I remember reading a similar explanation. The brain in a ultimate attempt of solving that fatal situation goes deeply thought memories to find anything that could help. Evolutionarily, this would make sense.

50% tariff on Brazil so they stop offering lessons in democratic maturity.

We need to protect and reshore our own domestic lessons in democratic maturity. We can produce these hard lessons in the US again if we try!

Don't worry, the hard lessons are already being set up as we speak!

In two weeks we're going to have the biggest, most beautiful lessons.

"You put your arm around your friend when there's something like this going on, and talk about what we're prepared to do together"