u/Dennis_Laid

My book topic is what you might call anti-digital. In the time I’ve been working on it my opinion on Amazon has changed from indifference to loathing. I’m very confident that I could sell enough copies of the paperback to make me happy, by consigning stacks of them to a certain type of retail store across the country.

So my question is: Is there a book printing service that could not only manufacture the book, but dropship bundles of 10 or 20 for me to addresses that I give them? Obviously I would be paying the service provider upfront, and collecting from the retail shops consignment via invoice on my own later.

I kind of like the idea of my book, not being available as an e-book or anywhere digital at all.

From what I understand $14.99 is going to be a new cut off point and I made my ISBN $14.95. The book has yet to go to print so can I change it in Bowker and simply output a new barcode?

“In plain terms: the model doesn’t climb toward superintelligence. It slowly forgets what the real world looks like.”

“A recent arXiv paper – “On the Limits of Self-Improving in Large Language Models” – doesn’t just argue against RSI. It formally proves it’s self-defeating.

The core idea: model the self-referential training loop as a dynamical system on the space of probability distributions. When a model trains on its own generated data (synthetic outputs), it’s not learning from reality anymore – it’s learning from a distorted reflection of itself.

The paper proves that under a diminishing supply of fresh, authentic data, this system converges to a fixed point – a degenerate distribution with low diversity and high bias. The technical term is model collapse, and it’s been observed empirically too. But now there’s a formal proof that it’s inevitable, not just a bad luck outcome.”

https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/