Sure, that’s a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don’t yank the entry because they don’t recognize the archived source as a valid citation.
It isn’t a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.
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I still have my dad’s 1957 edition sitting on my childhood bedroom shelf.
It is genuinely kind of wild to read through that thing, in light of modern history.
I mean, just having the ability to roll up your own Wiki is very handy.
I would appreciate a way to archive the citations, so that a link-break down the line doesn’t cause the raw data to be lost. But that’s a problem with copywrite and IP more than anything Wikipedia does natively.
I’ll always remember their big dusty fishbowl with the outlines of all the keys.
That’s Free Markets, baby!
It can’t pop if the US Treasury just keeps dumping tens of billions of dollars into it as a backstop.
The Infrastructure Reinvestment Act kicked this mess off, but it didn’t pad the wallets of the right people to the right degree. So now Trump is just cutting idiots and assholes across the VC Tech Sector ten-digit checks to keep doing what they’re doing.
We’re increasingly operated as a Planned Economy that exists to turn natural resources into AI slop, because this is what the federal government’s leadership believes they need to maintain the illusion of control over the public.
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Conservapedia already did this something like twenty years ago. It missed the entire purpose of the project, which was to invite a kaleidoscope of specialists and journalists to document the volume of known information categorically, primarily through citation to other online works.
Instead, you had a basket case of ultra-orthodox ideologues carving out a very niche set of contrary opinion posts that weren’t well documented or continuously maintained.
Conservapedia isn’t a right wing vanity project because of it’s hot takes on Hitler, it’s a vanity project because of the yawning gulfs in it’s data set. Nobody engages with the site, because it is so heavily censored.
I get the sense Grokapedia will suffer the same fate. If a subject doesn’t tickle Musk’s interest, it’ll either go undocumented or be a naked plagarization of some other online encyclopedia. And as soon as Musk loses interest entirely, support for the service will go the same way as so many private vanity projects.
Incidentally, Wikipedia’s fate is also an open question. What happens when Jimmy Wales can’t administer and fundraise for it anymore? How long until some hacks get their hooks in and corrupt it like so many other private media outlets?
It’s all bots anyway
Glitzy AAA open-world-ish games have beautiful visuals but their replayability is near zero
I mean, I gotta disagree, at least in part. Some of these games don’t age well. But I still know folks who line up for the “WoW Classic” experience. Hell, I know people who have been playing since the game came out in '02/'03(?) and now they’re out playing with their kids. I know one family who plays with their grandmother, ffs.
I think one thing that really gave Blizzard and Nintendo titles staying power was the choice to deliberately tack towards the cartoon-y style of art. When you’re not going for that hyper-real experience, the games age better. Hard to pick up a vintage Laura Croft or Devil May Cry without feeling its age. But Wind Waker? Mario 64? They do just fine.
I’m sure that plays a role. But it might also be worth noting that the market is absolutely saturated. You don’t need to go out and get The Latest New Game to enjoy yourself. There are titles that are 20 years old and can stand up to anything the AAA titles will put out next week.
The marketing budget is what’s driving a lot of the prices of these bigger titles. You see a Superbowl Ad for the new Call of Duty or GTA game? That’s $5 of the sticker price right there. Sometimes firms are spending 50-100% of the actual production cost of the game to tell you to buy the game. Other times they’re just going out to the gaming mags/influencer groups and leading you with “The game is coming!!!” news articles for years at a time, hoping to build a critical mass of pre-orders to fund the next title in the pipe.
Once the game is out, though, its done. Anything you can flip it for is free money for the owner of the property. So why not re-sell the SquareEnix back catalog for $10/ea? Tune up the graphics a bit, maybe spring for a few new cut scenes. You can take a title that landed on shelves in the mid-90s and turn it into another eight-figure release just by hyping it back up again.
The anti-natalist folks and the pro-natalist folks are clearly in some kind of competition to produce the shittiest ideology imaginable.
Congrats for putting points on your side of the board.
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On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.
Human intelligence is analog and predicated on a complex, constantly changing, highly circumstantial manifestation of consciousness rooted in brain chemistry.
Artificial Intelligence (a la LLMs) is digital and predicated on a single massive pre-compiled graph that seeks to approximate existing media from descriptive inputs.
The difference is comparable to the gulf between a body builder’s quad muscle and a piston.
Real Genius runs on cigarettes, coffee, and cheating on your cousin-wife.
How can we know if the AI is intelligence unless we can prove it is horny?
Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.
Will Smith is officially banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years. He’s also lost the ability to produce new projects, with his IMDB credits drying up almost entirely after 2022.
One of the only people in Hollywood who you might seriously claim faced consequences for deplorable behavior. We can only speculate as to why.
You joke, but…
Demon Spirits – The Real Root of Addiction
Growing up in the 80s/90s, I 100% heard about how everything from Heavy Metal music to D&D to Voting for Michael Dukakis caused the godless heathens to become possessed and driven to deplorable acts. Exorcisms are for people with insider access to high ranking church officials. The folks living outside of the fence - the migrants, the hippies, the drug users, the fornicators and exotic dancers, the non-believers - why do you think they have all that crime and disease and misery?
They’ve fallen out of God’s love and light. They’re all tortured souls, possessed by any number of evils.