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A bus isn't going to fall out of the air and land in the ocean. A bus isn't going to be hijacked and flown into the top of a building.

And the fact is that there's been some level of security since the 1970s or thereabouts after a fair number of hijackings. Any serious debate is about restrictions around liquids/knives/etc. (Some of which related to isolated incidents like the shoe bomber and others of which seem like pretty clear overreach--like I can't bring a hiking pole in carryon.)

Well, compare them to Microsoft: 50 years old with 228,000 employees and $282 billion in revenue.


I believe that jab was that PHP has a bunch of ways to do similar things and Python, in their view, is turning out that way, too.


On a more philosophical level php is this feature. At least as it was used originally and how it's mostly used today. PHP was and is embedded in html code. If you have a look at a wordpress file you are going to see something like this:

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I think you would be better off having the LLM help you build up the plot with high level chapter descriptions and then have it dig into each chapter or arc. Or start by giving it the beats before you ask it for help with specifics. That'd be better at keeping it on rails.


I don't disagree. Like with almost anything else involving LLMs, getting hands on produces better results but because in this instance, i much prefer to be the reader than the author or editor, it's really important to me that a LLM is capable of pacing long form writing properly on its own.


Random question, if you don't care about being a creator yourself, why do you even want to read long form writing written by an LLM? There are literally 10000s of actual human written books out there all of them better than anything an LLM can write, why not read them?


> There are literally 10000s of actual human written books out there all of them better than anything an LLM can write, why not read them?

10000s is still much smaller than the space of possibilities for even a short prompt.

You might be right that good human novels are better than what LLMs can manage today. But that's rapidly changing.

And if you really need that Harry Potter / Superman / Three Musketeers crossover fan fiction itch scratched, you might not care that some other existing novel is 'better' in some abstract sense.


Authors tell stories they want to tell and Readers read stories they want to read. The two don't necessarily overlap or overlap strongly enough. If you're even a little bit specific (nowhere near as specific as the above prompt, even just something like the dynamic between protagonists) then you don't actually have 10,000s of actual human written books. Not even close. Maybe it exists and maybe you'll find it good enough but if it's only been read by a few hundred or thousand people ? Good luck getting it recommended.

I've read a LOT of fiction. I love reading. And if it's good enough, the idea of reading something created by a machine does not bother me at all. So of course i will continue to see if the machine is finally good enough and i can be a bit more specific.


Usually porn and fan fiction.


> There are literally 10000s of actual human written books out there

Tens-of-thousands is probably low by something in the neighborhood of four orders of magnitude.


It's very hard to find good books written by humans. GoodReads is okay, but you quickly run out of high-end recommendations. I read mostly sci-fi, and the books that everyone recommends rarely end up being 10/10. But then I see some random recommendation on Reddit or HN, and it ends up being amazing.

Human-generated slop is real.


You could ask your LLM for a recommendation.


That was what I tried on the train [0] a few weeks ago. I used Groq to get something very fast to see if it would work at least somewhat. It gives you a PDF in the end. Plugging in a better model gave much better results (still not really readable if you actually try to; at a glance it's convincing though), however, it was so slow that testing what kind of impossible. Cannot really have things done in parallel either because it does need to know what it pushed out before, at least the summary of it.

[0] https://github.com/tluyben/bad-writer


Can you give an example of a country where you think the population would do something violent or upending if they had an Elon?


There are quite a few countries out there that don't just do peaceful protest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#2020s

In the US it's looking like the main aggressors are Trump supporters and most of everyone else is not actually out for blood, just Peacefully Unhappy.

Elon is 100% out for blood, he's practically a modern-day Nazi.

On many social media platforms you can see a lot of people from the UK, EU, etc. being totally bewildered that all the US is doing right now is useless peaceful protests.

There are also a bunch of people potentially even from the US who post things like: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1j822ah/cmv_m...

Maybe eventually something will happen that changes things, or maybe eventually things will reach a tipping point, but right now at least they are still stuck in some peaceful protest limbo.


But that's not a good branding name. Would you argue that a mini fridge should only be marketed as a miniature refrigerator? It's a mouthful. Why does the name that's used for branding need to show up in Nature?


To me it seems to have very little to do with his antics. Surely inflation, market saturation, and increased competition is more probable?


Tesla is a very very nice computer with a decent car attached to it.

In the best of times Musk's leadership brought us stuff like "Joe Mode" just because he saw someone complain on Twitter.

Now he's completely unhinged and we can't trust him even as much as before. He might just decide something crazy and force the factories to change it just because.


He said “partly” — seems reasonable that throwing nazi salutes around might have a partial impact on declining sales?


sales were trending down significantly in Europe even before the salute though.


That doesn’t mean Musk’s gesture didn’t accelerate the downward trend. But I agree with the general sentiment. Overall Teslas can’t compete with other EV makers because as soon as there’s a real market Tesla isn’t that attractive anymore outside of a brand loyal niche. Musk appears to have lost his magic, or perhaps his mind too. Dude looks quite disheveled these days..


because as soon as there’s a real market Tesla isn’t that attractive anymore outside of a brand loyal niche.

can't be further from the truth. if you drive tesla and then drive all of the competitors tesla is faaar superior car. cars are great. the core issue here are margins - before competition tesla's could retain the huge margins on their vehicles. feels like in order to compete now they will have to drop the prices and hence their margins and with the forward p/e ratio of 1,000,129 that won't go well for the company's financials. and of course elon being a tool isn't going to be helping with this :)


Many people will NEVER buy a Tesla because they don't like Musk's politics or behavior.


perhaps but I was not commenting on elon or his politics and repercussions from him going full-on insane, I was specifically commenting on because as soon as there’s a real market Tesla isn’t that attractive anymore outside of a brand loyal niche.


If they drop price tesla still can’t compete because they are lacking the capacity to increase production


they'd be just fine if they sell all the cars they currently have capacity to make with their current margins... not to satisfy the insane evaluation but in general :)


Have a model Y. Had a vw ID.5 before (leased), his assessment is correct. Tesla is a decent car with a NICE infotainment system. VW's Android system is not wow'ing anyone, but the car is quieter, handles better, turns on a dime, suspension is way more comfy etc - Volkswagen Group knows how to make a car. (And yea, as a European, this will be my last US oligarch/Nazi car)


Oh no, it's in great part due to his antics. Owning a Tesla used to be about a positive future, the transition to sustainability, and with great engineering and making it sexy. Now owning a Tesla seems to be about kneeling to Moloch, paying for plutocracy, gleefully cutting basic food aid for the world's poorest starving children, undermining democracy around the world, and yes even doing a fascist salute. So, you want that as your brand? And yes, there's now much better competition, but unlike what one might gather from certain "conservative" news sources, the EV market has grown and continues to grow. [1] My guess is Tesla sales will continue to collapse.

The robo-taxi attempt is fraught and Musk's mind seems elsewhere -- swinging a wrecking ball on government, turning Twitter into his microphone (with great damage to its value and creating a real opening for competitors), posting videogame results reminiscent of the old North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung-style, where the newspaper would report on his games of golf in which he swung 18 hole-in-ones.

By hitching his wagon to political movements most despised by the consumers of EVs he's alienated Tesla's audience. By his further actions he's shocked and disgusted them so that driving a Tesla is becoming an embarrassment. The brand is kaput.

There's maybe a separate China story but it's no better. Tesla taxis in China, really?

[1] Global electric vehicle sales up 25% in record 2024 - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global...


I'm actually shocked in such a media and marketing driven society that absolutely, nobody brings up the fact that the Tesla brand has been completely destroyed in the US and EU.

Companies simply do not survive this in the long run unless very specific inelastic demand (I'm thinking bp oil spill as the only example) exists, and even then BP wasn't as international or charged or so ... Nazi.

Tesla is musk. Musk is a Nazi. Musk was a progressive environmental future in the previous media construction.

That radical shift means no brand, no customers. How many people want to drive a car that basically has a swastika on it? 4% of the population?

On top of this, musks absent leadership since the model Y, in addition to Tesla's general problems getting new designs out the door, and his marketing ignorance in the good days, means Tesla has no badge diversification a luxury marque, no extensive model diversity for all the markets of the world, no cabin options for their extreme design, no trims and body style variations.

It's just the 3 and Y basically.

Tesla should have bought another car company to gain engineer, design, oem relationships, and manufacturing capacity.

Too late. Tesla is now a pump and dump scheme, musk wants his 60 billion that Delaware is holding up and then he'll sell off just like the board is doing now.

China will seize teskas assets on a whim from a trade war or a hot war with Taiwan.

The energy sector is not one I look forward to, Tesla doesn't have any advantage in battery packaging or battery technology("battery day" is now officially a dud), and lfp lmfp and sodium ion chemistries are far more suited to grid storage and home storage.

We all know AI driving at Q4 isnt happening under musk. It's a long slog and musk fires software teams too quickly, because he treats them like hardware. That's basically all the hype.


EV sales are generally growing in Europe

Tesla sales are static or shrinking

Take January YoY in the UK, EV sales rose 24%, Tesla's sales dropped 8% ish


> To me it seems to have very little to do with his antics.

For your hypothesis to make sense, first you would have to establish that Musk's antics have no negative impact on Musk's public opinion or public image.

In the meantime, you've started to see a global wave of both Tesla stores and Tesla cars being vandalized in protest over Musk's public support for Nazism. In some cases such as Germany you even had public protests against the neonazi party that Musk supports and promotes.

So you establish the fact that throughout the world people started protesting Musk due to his public actions. Do you think this change in public sentiment brings with it a neutral impact on sales?


My guess is he was referring to financial predators. Greed and lust rather than wrath.


No, he's saying that predators tell their prey not to fight back.


That is correct. That is why pacifism is heavily promoted in mainstream media and society.


I don't think this is true. How many popular movies are war movies where the heroes are most certainly not pacifists? Even the movie starring a real-life pacifist (Hacksaw Ridge) is about how he, too, fit into the war machine.


First, I meant pacifism is promoted as the only recourse for the general citizen, not for the government. Of course, war movies promote the acceptability of violence by the state. Two totally separate phenomena.

The state promotes violence by the state, and being docile for the citizen.


Ok, but the word pacifism means something specific. I agree with your statement about docility, I think many would call it "civility." Same thing that black people were accused of, being "uncivil," when they were rioting for civil rights.


That is true. It's an important definition distinction.


> I meant pacifism is promoted as the only recourse for the general citizen

What media are you consuming? Take a look at any list of top-grossing films of the past few decades and it's riddled with non-state lone wolf actors using violence to solve their problems.

You're saying that John Wick, Creed, Spider-Man, The Fall Guy, Furiosa, Venom, etc. are teaching Americans to be pacifists?


Of course. Movies are an outlet to let off steam. We experience the violence in the theatre that is increasingly precisely because the pacified masses need a strong outlet to escape the lack of recourse for injustice in the real world.


This is a good explanation without supporting the idea that there is no propaganda of violence. There is. And btw, the US are one of the most violent advanced countries.


Only because the violence is a side effect of having fairly unregulated capitalism. But eventually the system will stop that.


You're moving the goal posts. First you said that "pacifism is heavily promoted in mainstream media". When I pointed out that American mainstream media is absolutely riddled with "non-state invidualist hero uses personal violence to solve their problems", now you claim that the media is for "letting off steam".


This misunderstanding was already solved in a sibling comment.


> why pacifism is heavily promoted in mainstream media and society

Yes, America's problem is it's just too peaceful, at home and abroad.

Like, it's a neat hypothesis. The data just don't fit, certainly not for America. We have high rates of gun ownership and gun violence (as well as other violence, e.g. at bars and schoolyards) precisely because we like taking justice into our own hands.


We've got about 6 billion adults. I think we can be concerned with and address multiple threats at the same time. It's not a zero sum game of risk avoidance.


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