The Captain & Tamil
Soy Boys of the West
The Knight family has nothing but Teslas.
We’re Getting Railed
I’ve written about California’s ridiculous high speed rail boondoggle, which as I’ve predicted countless times will end in non-completion and total failure. I was reminded of this the other day when I heard on a program that China just completed its 30,000th mile of high-speed rail, whereas the U.S. has yet to lay a single mile of track. But at least we rule the world in terms of blowing schoolchildren to bits, right?
Slow Intelligence
A few days ago, I was awfully proud of myself, because I made my first working product using AI. It wasn’t much of a “product“, but it was a webpage that I really needed which would normally have cost me hundreds of dollars to have someone make. Armed with ChatGPT, little old me did it for free in about five minutes.
I have cautioned myself about cranking out AI-based pages left and right, though, for one simple reason: even with the pro-level AI service that I pay for, it is slow, slow, slow. I was reminded of this just now when I wanted to ask a simple question about my mortgage. I asked Grok.
The Second Coming
We are interested in markets here on Slope, and lately there has been an explosion lately in what are essentially legalizing gambling sites known as prediction markets. The largest is Polymarket, where you can be on just about anything imaginable, including this unlike scenario:
