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I should start a power company?

I understand what you're saying. I think it's less about this: You know about quizlet and choose to use it at $5/mo And more about this: The average person doesn't know about quizl…

That tiny slice is gigantic.

Interesting. You don't have to give away any secrets, but when you're talking about tiny details/sub features, what sorts of issues are you describing?

I agree. I think people generally want a mix of good enough, easy, and something they already know. The competition I see is from two separate directions, 1) AI companies training …

Yes. The point isn't whether it's true. It's currently the reality that's being sold by most large AI firms.

If AI can build anything. Why do you need a human in the loop? For ideation, for market testing, for go to market, for marketing content generation? Why have a startup incubator fu…

Xerox Parc is one of my favorite anecdotes. However it's not for UI, it's for how major companies like Xerox kill innovation by trying to make it fit to the form factor of their bu…

What embedded fitness fuctions are you thinking of?

Right. The joke with shakespeares monkeys or borjes library is that you just do that and then filter out the books that match shakespeares works. If you already know what you want …

People often think of tech/business as bottleneck issues ie whats my limiting factor. That's relevant to pre-ai business as humans are relatively self organizing. The issue with AI…

It shouldn't be prohibitively expensive because the more you break the work into smaller parts, theoretically the smaller a model can be that completes it. Therefore your agent swa…

What do you mean by tyranny of the specific?

Agreed. Land coverage from space is going to have a larger line of site. I'm wondering more about unit economics. 10k units for global coverage with ongoing maintenance cost. Or ea…

You should be able to do the same thing by pointing dishes at each other long distance and having local nodes broadcast 5g. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than rocket launches…

They were bought out by a unilever subsidiary. Most of their ingredients were replaced with cheaper, less healthy, less flavorful additives. It's funny to say the ice cream got les…

Any interesting reading on the second paragraph?