ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Subsidies are coarse and indirect, and unfortunately unless you build in explicit price controls (and would either party even consider that?) the market will not stop charging prices that now people have demonstrated they will pay.

At best they will slightly lower prices but nowhere near as reliable as tariffs raised them, and also inefficiently divide that benefit of the subsidy with the business that will skim extra profit now at the expense of taxpayers. I.e., a citizen still paying more for less.

And even if the tariffs were revoked today, prices are effectively permanently higher. There is no mechanism to lower prices in the way tariffs have raised them.

The first week after Sora was released, characters were shown doing all sorts of brand-unsafe things. OpenAI spoke with companies after that and created blocked term lists to prevent characters and certain interactions with them.

That is fairly coarse "limiting." However, user red-teaming still makes it possible to show copyrighted characters doing objectionable things. That will likely continue once this is released, unless they are doing something different (like having output be re-reviewed by a secondary AI system and actively exclude the output's description of negative portrayals rather than just user prompt terms).

JD: Why won't they stop doing it? I specifically demanded it.

Two observations:

1. He always denies more strongly when criticisms are true. This seems to be reflexive, probably stemming from his Roy Cohn, escalate-everything training. So I take this as evidence he has serious health issues.

2. Whenever he uses words outside his normal vocabulary, it's because someone has used them to him recently. Since reporting has confirmed Bondi is preparing a report on "anti-American" terrorism (presumably at Trump's direction, even if he remembered to send that message privately this time) that Ken Klippenstein has evidence will just be criminalizing opposition, we may actually be approaching the phase of fascism where people are arrested and charged with treason for criticizing Trump.

Wow, thanks!

Very interesting. I followed BD circumvention on the doom9 forums from that link decades ago, but it looks like the VUK database method is more reliable now.

Is there some version of Handbrake or workaround for BD copy protection? This is the excerpt from the site, and matches my understanding that it isn't a circumvention tool:

Supported Input Sources:

Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Thanks for sharing this review, it's great to see your reviews and interviews here.

I've seen a similar recent DS-emulation system review and they were playing Rhythm Heaven, and what really looked like it would bother me is the emulation input latency (it appeared roughly 10-20ms). Have you played Rhythm Heaven or other latency-sensitive games and do you notice any input delay?

Yeah, sure, but it's not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it's $300-450. That isn't just because it's not "cutting edge," that's extreme demand compared to supply.

Which LLM is this from, ChatGPT?

DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what's available.