While the young Bill Gates did many disgusting things, after retiring he behaved quite decently in comparison with other similarly rich people.
In any case, he would have been an infinitely better president than people like Bush Junior or Trump. Probably also better than people like Biden, who is not remembered for doing something good, but only for not being so bad as his predecessor and successor.
I did not follow this affair more thoroughly, but the link provided by you shows only a suspicious relationship between Nathan Myhrvold and Epstein, without saying anything conclusive about Gates.
It seems to me there is a word or two missing between “rich” and “slowly”. If I read the whole thing aloud I cannot parse it into a sentence. Or the word “rich” could be removed. That would be clunky but at least grammatically sensible.
“Make data get smoothed out” is a very strange way of saying “smooths out data”
> The weird, rare, surprising patterns [that make data rich] slowly get smoothed out when an AI model trains on outputs from a previous model.
i.e., the patterns are responsible for making data rich, and they are slowly lost as each new generation model trains on the prior generation's output.
Or, if you'd prefer an analogy, we're using a copy machine to output new documents by taking the last copy spit out by the machine, adding some marks to it, and running it through the copier again. Over time, details present in much older copies blur and fade away in Nth generation copies.
It might be weird if you haven't read a lot of English. It's actually quite normal to say that process X is a way to make effect Y happen. "Makes your mout water" is more effective than "waters your mouth". "Makes your breath fresh and tolerable" is better than "freshens and tolerablerizes your breath". Etc.
Actually, what you are describing is what happens when LLM-generated prose cycles and then trains humans to use equally dull thinking.
And then there's trucks flashing an indicator to say it's safe to overtake if you're behind them. In the UK it's the nearside indicator, which makes sense: it's a bit like the truck is pulling over to let you pass. In Aotearo, it's often the off-side indicator, so you think the truck is going to pull out in front of you. I've never understood what the Aotearoa drivers are thinking there
All. The. Time. And I hate it. Imagine giving a customer a rebate based on buggy code. You fix a bug, the customer comes back and wants to check that the rebate was correct that last time. Now you have to somehow hard-code the rebate they did get so that your (slightly less buggy) code gives the same result. But hard-coding has the risk of introducing other errors on its own. Oh yes, and you've never enough time to do things properly because Customers (or maybe Management). A tangled mess of soul destroying lifeblood-sucking code and pressures ensues.
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