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Unstoppable IP enforcers meet unmovable slop generator?

The Verge: Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

I have an analog Casio G-Shock that's the perfect beater watch - radio controlled, solar charging, I can discern the hands in the dark without glasses, and almost indestructible. It wasn't terribly expensive either.

I think Casio is threading the needle quite well with new technology. I'm sure they're exploring pure smart watches, but the core ideal is "no maintenance" - you don't have to change the battery or set the time[1]. This naturally leads to tough, energy-concious engineering, and as they make millions of watches, they have economies of scale.

The newer models have BT low energy so you can use the admittedly fiddly controls with an app. But you don't need to. It's just a complement.

[1] obviously this only applies to the more expensive models, and if your local time source supports DST

Big Yud posts another "banger"[1], and for once the target audience isn't impressed:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3q8uu2k6AfaLAupvL/the-tale-of-the-top-tier-intellect#comments

I skimmed it. It's terrible. It's a long-winded parable about some middling chess player who's convinced he's actually good, and a Socratic strawman in the form of a young woman who needles him.

Contains such Austean gems as this

If you had measured the speed at which the resulting gossip had propagated across Skewers, Washington -- measured it very carefully, and with sufficiently fine instrumentation -- it might have been found to travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum.

In the end, both strawmen are killed by AI-controlled mosquito drones, leaving everyone else feeling relieved .

Commenters seem miffed that Yud isn't cleaning up his act and writing more coherently so as to warn the world of Big Bad AI, but apparently he just can't help himself.

[1] if by banger you mean a long, tedious turd. 42 minute read!

jfc

It's been a while since I used Reddit. Is the thesis that subscribers to ChatGPT will be rounded up and killed? By whom? For what stated reason? It sounds like a weird inversion of victimhood, considering the number of GenAI user (even if they're just casual users) and the massive money and hype around GenAI by companies and way too many govs.

Thoughts / notes on Nostr? A local on a tech site is pushing it semi-hard, and I just remember it being mentioned in the same breath as Bluesky back in the day. It ticks a lot of techfash boxes - decentralized, "uncensorable", has Bitcoin's stupid Lightning protocol built in.

Nah it's real. As mentioned, they launched a limited metal ring model that was immensely popular. This is just them riding the wave.

there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.

don't forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun...

The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers

edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue

Nuclear wonk Chery Rofer talks a bit about the plutonium fire sale to Saltman in this piece, after some faff about Putin trolling Trump into resuming nuclear testing:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night

NYT: "OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise"

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771538 . Mostly people predicting a crash but some people are fine with it.