When an audience member asked if they would be releasing their models that help them manage power, the speaker quickly changed the topic, which I felt told me all I needed to know about the sincerity of their motivations.
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#42Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?
The cost to move atoms and bits everywhere in the world is near zero. This means that you could be the best in your field for hundreds of miles around, but your neighbors might still go on Amazon and order a product manufactured in China. I worry about this.
Find or invent a tiny niche and be among the best in the world in it, and the whole world (including China) will come to you for it.
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#43At Google Next in April, I attended a talk by the C-level in charge of Google's Datacenters, and they bragged about using machine learning to manage/anticipate their power draw, and the subsequent efficiencies those brought. They also bragged about how much they're trying to make these centers powered by renewables. When an audience member asked if they would be releasing their models that help them manage power, the…
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#45At Google Next in April, I attended a talk by the C-level in charge of Google's Datacenters, and they bragged about using machine learning to manage/anticipate their power draw, and the subsequent efficiencies those brought. They also bragged about how much they're trying to make these centers powered by renewables. When an audience member asked if they would be releasing their models that help them manage power, the…
You think you can drop a model into a new data center with a different architecture, different censors, different workloads, and it will magically save energy?
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#47Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?
Just make something good and useful and don’t kill it and you will be exceeding Google in so many areas. Think marathon, not sprint.
I've seen this before as "Think long-term, not short-term". Sometimes it can be true.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm quite sure a monopoly is not that alien a concept
A monopoly that keeps prices artificially low for years, drives everyone out of business, and then raises prices to make up for the years of lost profit -- I'd like to hear one example - it's never happened as far as i know. Most monopolies have been government granted - railroads through free land, AT&T by creation, etc.
>This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” defined as short-term price effects—is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy. We cannot cognize the potential harms to competition posed by Amazon’s dominance if we measure competition primarily through price and output. Specifically, current doctrine underappreciates the risk of predatory pricing and how integration across distinct business lines may prove anticompetitive. These concerns are heightened in the context of online platforms for two reasons. First, the economics of platform markets create incentives for a company to pursue growth over profits, a strategy that investors have rewarded. Under these conditions, predatory pricing becomes highly rational—even as existing doctrine treats it as irrational and therefore implausible. Second, because online platforms serve as critical intermediaries, integrating across business lines positions these platforms to control the essential infrastructure on which their rivals depend. This dual role also enables a platform to exploit information collected on companies using its services to undermine them as competitors.
This is also the same approach that Uber is using - charge artificially low prices for rides to undercut other cab companies, and eventually deploy self-driving cars and increase their prices.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think you can drop a model into a new data center with a different architecture, different censors, different workloads, and it will magically save energy?
That is a fair point, though I still think if your genuine motivation was the well-being of the Earth, then you'd, I dunno, _try?_
It’s very easy to be wrong, and it’s the worst kind of wrong because you feel so justified. You have reasons.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think you can drop a model into a new data center with a different architecture, different censors, different workloads, and it will magically save energy?
That is a fair point, though I still think if your genuine motivation was the well-being of the Earth, then you'd, I dunno, _try?_