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- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 4 days ago:
I remember there being a lot of innovation in all kinds of directions. The tech looks old and crusty these days if you look back on it but at the time it was exciting, it seemed like something cool and interesting was happening every week.
I think that’s the difference. Back then it was diverse and small companies could quickly gain market share by doing something new and different.
The current bubble is mostly based around a disconnect between what a LLM can actually do, and the hype, VC money, and established tech giants trying to sell a vision of what it might be able to do with more time and investment. There’s little diversity in the tech this time, it’s just LLMs being stuffed into various roles, some of which have utility and many which don’t. That’s why the bubble will burst soon. For every interesting use, like summarizing code there’s an AI powered fridge nobody asked for and nobody cares about.
The other big difference is that while the dot com bubble had the big players participating, many of which are still around today, there was potential for a startup to come along and eat their lunch. Now we just have a bunch of massive tech corporations who are out of ideas, so they’re pushing AI because that’s all they have left to hype because growth must continue at all costs, even if the average consumer couldn’t care less about ChatGPT or CoPilot.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 2 weeks ago:
Probably Good Morning Vietnam.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Astronaut Pistol Astronaut.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 4 weeks ago:
Needs some updog.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 1 month ago:
Look into getting a LASIK consultation, they will take some measurements and tell you if you’re a candidate. I’ve got some experience with this and I’ve had it done myself, feel free to ask questions.
- Comment on Marvel calls for more reshoots on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ after failed test screening 1 month ago:
Oh, I absolutely do not begrudge anyone getting a paycheck, we all need to eat.
I don’t think any of the directors you mentioned would push back against studio interference though. There are directors who will trade control for a paycheck and there are ones who won’t. The ones who won’t often make more interesting movies.
- Comment on Marvel calls for more reshoots on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ after failed test screening 1 month ago:
That’s kind of what I’m saying. Any director working for them has to be OK with the studio taking their movie and fucking around with it, they don’t get to kick up a fuss.
That automatically excludes a whole bunch of really talented directors who actually might make something worth watching if the studio wasn’t so meddlesome.
- Comment on Marvel calls for more reshoots on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ after failed test screening 1 month ago:
One of the problems Disney has is that they want total control over their movies so they only hire directors who will churn out product and not push back.
Those kind of directors seldom make good movies.
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 1 month ago:
The original is a stone cold classic. The remake, not so much.
- Comment on "We Were Asleep At The Wheel": Ridley Scott Reflects On Divisive Alien Prequel Prometheus 1 month ago:
Monsters remain scary as long as the audience doesn’t know much about them because the imagination is always scarier than the reality. Giving them a backstory was a dumb move, not helped by the writing being absolutely fucking abysmal, but that’s always been Ridley Scott’s achilles heel. Give him a great script and he’s one of the best directors around.
- Comment on Bunny-Man: First look at superhero movie featuring Mike Tyson & James Franco revealed 2 months ago:
I’m confident it will leave a lasting impact on the global market.
I’m not.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 2 months ago:
It’s not just the US, it’s been happening for years in other countries like the UK as well.
Traditionally there has been one party that is for working people and another for capital and the owner class.
The right has been getting further and further into far right authoritarianism. That posed a problem for the Dems going back to the Clinton Presidency: do they stick with being the party of working people or do they try to have their cake and eat it by tacking to the center and assuming that the working class will continue to vote for them no matter what?
It largely worked for a time and gave Obama two terms but ever since then they have been susceptible to criticism that they’re out of touch, elitists, entitled, and that they look down their nose at working people whilst still assuming that they will get their vote, which opened the door to Republicans.
You can’t serve two masters for very long, you can’t be the party of working people while being run by upper middle class graduates. You can’t claim to care about the people with the least while cozying up to CEOs and megadonors. Sooner or later it all falls apart, as it did with Hillary Clinton’s run, where working people disliked her elitism and she didn’t have enough support from elsewhere to make up the shortfall. That should’ve been a warning. Instead they doubled down.
The problem in the US is that there are only two viable parties. The Dems won’t go back to being the party of working people because they wouldn’t know how to do that even if they wanted to. What happens when the Trump Presidency turns out to be a disaster?
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 months ago:
See, this is why I rent.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 2 months ago:
He’s got to appeal to the Tory base who are mostly racist boomers who were never taught about colonialism outside of how the British showed up and tried to civilize the savages.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 months ago:
And then actually shooting something into the sun is harder than just blasting it out of the solar system.
This is fun to play with: trinket.io/embed/glowscript/6642756b52?toggleCode…
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 2 months ago:
… or a chihuahua.
Little bastard psychopaths.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] It's Wednesday, which movies have you been watching? 2 months ago:
Agreed, it was just fine. I found the fan service callbacks to the previous movies pretty distracting and unnecessary.
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 3 months ago:
Firewatch - Story driven rooted in character relationships, about being alone but trying to stay connected.
My pick as well. It’s well written with a nice relationship at its center.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes $7M In Thursday Night Previews, Receives 36% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – Box Office 3 months ago:
Sounds like people were expecting another Scorsese
rip-offhomage and they got a musical instead. - Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 3 months ago:
Wake in Fright.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0067541/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
An Aussie movie from the 70’s that was thought lost until a print was discovered and a restored version was released.
I’m not going to spoil it, it’s well worth a look but there are scenes of a real-life kangaroo hunt which might put some people off.
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 3 months ago:
Of course not.
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 4 months ago:
“He was later given the nickname “The Teflon Don” after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals …”
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 4 months ago:
The original Teflon Don was John Gotti.
He died in jail.
- Comment on "Constantine 2" Script Has Been Delivered 4 months ago:
I hope they have a role for Stormare, he killed it in the first one.
- Comment on NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report 4 months ago:
The last guy to suggest something like that got branded an antisemitic commie and was kicked out of the party.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 4 months ago:
I think it’s DOA without an upgraded game engine. I started playing Starfield right after coming off Cyberpunk with RT enabled and immediately requested a refund from Steam, it just looked like absolute shit in comparison.
- Comment on The First Reviews of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Are Wildly Encouraging 4 months ago:
This review isn’t great but it’s The Guardian.
- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 4 months ago:
“tariffs on seafood imports”
Will of the people, etc.
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 4 months ago:
I really enjoyed that the story was set as ‘just another day’ in Mega City One. There’s nothing special about what happened. Shits fucked.
I wish the movie had done better. There’s nearly endless scope for all kinds of sequels and Urban was down for making more.
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 4 months ago:
Also, I’ve seen some people claim this film is a rip-off of The Raid which isn’t true as I believe both were in production at the same time.
There is an internet rule that whenever someone brings up Dredd, another person must mention it’s a rip off of The Raid, facts be damned.