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The entire premise of the article is that we're being promised that an entire workforce is going to be eliminated overnight. The people who are promising this, do not care about wh…

Also, two other characteristics of the fall of roman empire: 1. It struggled to remain "solvent" because it lost taxable provinces relative to the costs of wars, administration, et…

This is basically the entire argument by Richard Sutton happening in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg Right now, we keep creating new models with larger and l…

> Visa or MasterCard is making the bulk of the commission They are not. Payment facilitators (like Stripe) are. https://images.prismic.io/sacra/30d7bd58-8149-461e-a3c2-8a4a...

You can't unilaterally say all AI blogs are low quality. That's bullshit. > would spend more time writing than I would have to spend reading To your point however, the reason peopl…

> The proprietary models are better because of proprietary data Source? Otherwise this is pure speculation.

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=vendor%3Acisco What about Cisco?

What does that have to do with scalability?

> Nextcloud is written in PHP, which doesn't sound scalable to me. Lol what? Facebook (pre Hack), Tumblr, Wordpress, Etsy...

And they are planning (well "planning" if you believe Elon) to start building their LLM over from scratch, which means they need a HUGE ass training data center, i.e. not a data ce…

The first link is the FTC punishing Pornhub for something they did wrong. That is the parent commentator's main point (e.g. it can be regulated), which you keep ignoring. > You wou…

> trip also knows where I live and vice versa. Do those people also have access to your travel schedule? Mine don't. Maybe you're just not as globally social as me? I've lived in 5…

There are legitimate benefits. I just think its very easy to argue (which I agree) that the benefits don't necessarily outweigh the harm for most people.

I am very critical of social media but this is far too of a myopic take. There is a ton of real life social benefit to these platforms. Simplest example - someone posts a picture/v…

> It takes humans a really long time to accept the fact they are no longer as special We ARE special because we determined we are special. Name another animal that can determine it…

Travis Kalanick had zero taxi experience and Brian Chesky had zero hospitality experience. Now they created new models to existing paradigms, because I do tend to agree that founde…

(1) There is currently $1T in dry powder in private capital markets (2) Middle east oil money (Saudi Aramco's profit every year is $100B+) (3) Public traders have been and are look…

Undercounts it by what barometer?

> I’ve had sales people tell me to my face that they are the most important part of the business and the actual product or services is not that important. Same here. This happened …

Or https://speed.cloudflare.com/

> but it took me 18 years to grow the user base , figure out entreprise sales strategy and exit. The audience here has never wanted to admit that the codebase doesn't really matter…

This is essentially what AlphaZero is doing: https://nof1.ai/

> And I didn't even say "profitable", I said "credible business model". What's the difference? I would assume a business model that rewards profit (and therefore can sustain) would…

> would people stop doing PE even though it's profitable? No but there would be a lot less PE dry powder available. To the parent's point - there is currently a trillion dollars in…

> As long as customers choose services based on quality. If the market doesn't reward this then maybe quality isn't important to the customer. Could be price, location, availabilit…