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Just to clarify: all perpetual motion machine videos on TikTok are fake or using the stored energy of magnets over time.


Which is strange, because it’s rather trivial. You make your machine inside out. Now the entire universe is on the inside of it, so all energy it gets from external sources is technically on the inside.


Pretty sure if anyone found true perpetual motion that I'd be hearing about it all month on HN. It'd be a discovery on the level of Newton's laws.


This is how I feel about AI/LLM discussions, except it's all a perpetual motion machine demo that people are falling for it. Kind of like crypto


But Copilot exists and people seem to be happy to pay for it.


(Some) people are also happy to pay to have someone piss on them, too. Do you think Microsoft should offer a Golden Shower tier of Copilot, complete with Trickle Down?


They already have this service, it's called "CosmosDB".


I’m sure that’s negotiable in their Enterprise offerings.


Oh, to be clear, there's a lot of bullshit on the internet, that might be the majority of stuff on the internet. Perpetual motion stuff is an example of bullshit.

Still, I do wonder what cool (and real) stuff on the internet that people don't really know about is actually significant.




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