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Concentrating power in anything has issues. But especially in an answer machine. Imagine one person has power over those companies they can change reality in ways we never thought …

Didn't we learn our lesson in SimCity? Crime went up when you added a casino.. but governments gained a little tax revenue... We seem to get the crime (see insider trading) but no …

Replace Tokens with Gas, or water or healthcare or anything - and it's foolish. You shouldn't let the seller dictate what amount you need of something. Smart engineers are figuring…

What do you get out of it that a csv or access to another service that allows you to do readonly access does this give you that you’d trust. What happens when they hallucinate a pa…

At some point there needs to be a check if it's a real human... But it's a cat and mouse game - any way we create to keep bots off gets a work around by clever engineers.

My understanding is stats canada gets offered a lot of money for this data after being anonymized. A lot of employers might not ask questions if someone had really good data they c…

I’d love to see the new cap table of this company. My guess is this will be terrible for spacex employees and gains xai a lifeline. My guess is this helps Elon get to trillion doll…

If you are old enough - feels a little like the bitkeeper/git situation

At the moment the biggest hope I have is there’s client side tech that protects us from these dark patterns. But I suspect they’ll have their own dark patterns to make them profita…

Next you'll say Star wars didn't take place a long long time ago /s It was a fun story / movie even if it's mostly fiction. I'm more concerned about the number of scams / cons that…

I wouldn't write them off yet - but if their funding dries up and there's no more money to support their spending habits this will seem like a great prediction. Giving away stuff t…

What do they bring to the table? Sounds like a no bid contract like thing to me. Doesn't sound like the meritocracy to me

It's not just in business it's politics, on air personalities, movies / tv shows are focusing reboots and sequels.

I don't think enough people think about how the current tax / economic system is made up, and we can change it if we collectively work together.

At some point the people who were laid off start competing against the company they used to work for at a fraction of the price. A company that only has a few real people and the r…

Has OP never had too many tabs, too many unread emails before? Declare bankrupcy, archive instead of delete. Obsidian allows you to have multiple vaults - and you can link to other…

and aws

At least post the CBC link: Results: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/resul... YouTube Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SATBOqyYODU

The Randomness of LLMs make it so 10 people could write the exact same prompts and have wildly different answers.. It's closer to Texas Hold'em than a coding challenge.

What if it was an un-social media. Like undo what happened over the last 5(or more) years in social media… may be interesting or just concentrate power in another company.

You know someone could make white mirror (or a title of a techno utopia) but those people are too busy making memes using AI.

Sounds like Daemon by Daniel Suarez

“If” is doing a lot of work there. Do you think they’ll slow down airports and port of entries to check everyone’s personal phone? Maybe if you buy 3+ to sell. But there’s congress…

It’s cheaper to travel to Canada or Mexico than to buy it at that price.

I'd vote for an LLM And when the wrong LLM wins - don't blame me I voted for Llama (or Gemini or ChatGPT or Claude)