u/Agitated_Garden_497

This makes me think the bubble is much closer to bursting than I even imagined. We have a debt and bond crisis, a private credit crisis and a car loan debt crisis on top of the coming crisis from the Iran war shutting off the straight of Hormuz, finally the main stream media is taking it seriously. It’s great to see Ed get a larger international audience. I’m terrified for the coming financial crisis but we have to have our eyes open to the coming catastrophe.

I've been noticing an interesting phenomenon lately. People who spent the past 2 years telling me to prepare because Ai was going to take my job, that Ai was the future and I better get on board and get used to it, that I was just being a hater have started texting me anti-Ai articles, and saying "Good riddance" as though I don't have a working memory of arguing with them about it for literally years, lol. It's kind of like the Trump voters who are now embarrassed that they voted for him and they want you to forget that they did too so they are just acting like they can magically erase your memory of their words and actions. I have now had 3 old co-workers who were constantly hyping Ai start to act like they were always against it and it's hilarious and annoying. Anyone else experience this lately?

I feel like this creator does a fantastic job at breaking through the jargon and really distills the lies and grift of Ai.

I finally watched Stallone’s Judge Dredd tonight and I’m floored by how much media has borrowed or straight up copied the Dredd film?? “Hell Divers”, the antagonist from season 4-5 of Stranger Things, hell, even some of Mandalorian and 5th Element borrow shots and visuals from this movie. It’s really neat to see how much a film that flopped on release has gone on to be so influential!

I hope Ed becomes a regular contributor to Bloomberg because we need bigger news outlets to be discussing his research since they don't seem to be willing or capable of doing the research themselves. I guess we have Elon and Space X's doomed IPO to thank for people, investors and journalists to finally be willing to listen to skepticism and they are finally seeing the evidence for what Ed, Cory Doctorow and Cal Newport and others have been screaming about. Ed cooked in this interview and special thanks to who ever made the thumbnail at Bloomberg, lol.

Baby Invasion feels like it could be an inspiration for the antagonist cult of sociopathic children in the cult created by Brian K Vaughan. The attention economy meets our worst impulses and the still forming neurons of adolescence feels like something birthed by Korine’s work.

This is the most educated in the bad economics of Ai that I’ve ever seen. He does an excellent job of explaining the bad economics of the Ai Data Center build out, the fallacy of the price of tokens and inference going down but the cost of inference actually goes up due to the harnesses and agents using tokens around the clock. It makes me wonder why more investors don’t take the time to learn about what is obviously a speculative bubble. They really are lemmings.

I've used Python scripts a lot at work but they were always written and constructed by others and I feel bad that I've gone my whole career not really knowing how to construct my own scripts and tools. I'm very right-brained and feel intimidated by code. Can anyone recommend some good books or websites for beginners? I think I can pick it up fast since I've been tangential to Python for years but I just need a clear explainer on the fundamentals.

I’ve been a computer animator for 26 years but I’ve done very little Mel or Python scripting myself having always felt intimidated by it. I’m very right brained but I have worked with and around Python scripts for years and I’d love some good book recommendations to help me get a grasp of the basics and fundamentals. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!