Sidenote: I didn’t know anything about Freestyle Chess before reading this, so I checked Wikipedia first[1]. Interestingly, the randomized nature of the format, its defining feature, isn’t strongly emphasized upfront, which may make it less immediately clear to newcomers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_Chess_Grand_Slam_Tou...

Possibly, but that assumes continuity. New math and algorithmic breakthroughs could make much of today’s AI stack legacy, reshuffling both costs and winners.

It’s a matter of time, it could be decades, until we shape those "engineered addiction" similarly to the Tobacco trials.

That's optimistic! I worry the attack on discourse and community has fundamentally undermined democracy.

Interesting, how do I get a try? I feel weird entering my OpenAI key on a third party site.

Understandable, unfortunately I haven't found a better method than BYOK for a free app. If you'd like to try it, you can generate a new key, test it for 10 minutes, and then delete it. Alternatively, you can watch a video of the generation process: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qsuu58/ex...

What's striking is the sheer scale of Epstein's and Maxwell's scheduling and access. The source material makes it hard to even imagine how two people could sustain that many meetings/parties/dinners/victims, across so many places, with such high-profile figures. And, how those figures consistently found the time to meet them.

Ghislaine making a speech at the UN... https://youtu.be/-h5K3hfaXx4?t=350

> It’s kind of crazy that they have been slow to create real products and competitive large scale models from their research.

It’s not that crazy. Sometimes the rational move is to wait for a market to fully materialize before going after it. This isn’t a Xerox PARC situation, nor really the innovator’s dilemma, it’s about timing: turning research into profits when market conditions finally make it viable. Even mammoths like Google are limited in their ability to create entirely new markets.

This take makes even more sense when you consider the costs of making a move to create the market. The organizational energy and its necessary loss in focus and resources limits their ability to experiment. Arguably the best strategy for Google: (1) build foundational depth in research and infrastructure that would be impossible for competition to quickly replicate (2) wait for the market to present a clear new opportunity for you (3) capture it decisively by focusing and exploiting every foundational advantage Google was able to build.

I would add strong and fast consumer protection biased to big companies. Also, the elephant in the room: a modern, and not impossble expensive, legal system.