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> There’s no dent By the time there is a dent, it's too late.
by cfeduke 3y ago
> There’s no dent
By the time there is a dent, it's too late.
- andy_ppp 3y agoSounds great but you’ll have to provide some logic because I don’t automatically follow your extremely confident opinion…
- lenkite 3y agoPeople here are praying very hard for Twitter to fail. Nearly any social media post nowadays has 50-100 comments predicting Twitter's failure and ranting about Musk. He is living rent-free in many heads now. Its utterly ludicrous how so many intelligent and rational people are becoming un-hinged whenever Twitter/Musk is mentioned.
- laratiede 3y ago[dead]
- gessha 3y agoAny publicity is good publicity it seems like. People don’t get that hating is not the opposite of love, it’s indifference. Mute and forget.
- andy_ppp 3y agoI just sent the second part of this to my friend WRT his ex-wife…
- theturtletalks 3y agoHate is just confused admiration
- Nathanba 3y agoIt reminds me of the Trump thing, it seems people really lose all rationality when they are faced with a man who publically doesn't care and does whatever he wants and is successful at it. I wonder if we will one day have a psychological name for this. It must be related to something in the human brain that touches on social repression and decades of instilled moral codes like "Don't say this, nobody will like you" and then when somebody does it anyway, you feel like it's an invader from a different tribe or a tribe member violating the fabric of what holds together the tribe. When really, he's not doing much different at all and they'd privately do the same exact jokes as a kid like "Twitter is Titter! haha! Like titties get it?" I bet lots of people had such a dumb thought but repressed it and when a supposed adult and major social figure acts like that, it evokes anger that the tribe is in danger.
- inpdx 3y ago"and is successful at it." Overpaying, creating a mass exodus, destabilizing the platform, and losing tons of advertisers is "successful?"
- Nathanba 3y agoThe Twitter thing is still in progress and probably his first project where you could say that he has a problem
- 4ggr0 3y agoWhat are your thoughts about The Boring Company?
- phs318u 3y agoI’d argue that one of the reasons Tesla and SpaceX are successful is not just because Elno is a “visionary” (or functional equivalent). It’s because he was/is supported by a cadre of “true believers” (eg that we must disrupt the auto industry in order to do something radical about climate change). Those true believers (like all true believers), are willing to put up with lots of strange behaviour in the name of that belief. Twitter on the other hand was bought with a management layer that could fairly be characterised as the opposite of true believers in whatever Elon is selling. Hence the implosion.
- bandyaboot 3y agoApparently the people that have Musk living rent free in their heads are living rent free in your head.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoMental subletting.
- sanderjd 3y agoI actually think the "living rent free in heads" peaked awhile ago. At this point it's just clear in a more pedestrian way that things aren't going well over there.
- emodendroket 3y agoThe fear of investors and, to some extent, Google, is that LLMs will supplant traditional search and by the time enough people are catching on to affect metrics the momentum will be too great to stop. My experience with LLMs has not led me to believe that is all that likely but opinions differ there.
- andy_ppp 3y agoWe need search to be able to fact check the LLMs, but this might become extremely difficult once all the content is written by them…
- wolpoli 3y agoJust like how it is hard to fact-check Wikipedia now that it's used a reference. A thought came to me - perhaps it's Wikipedia that should be worried that it'll be supplanted by LLMs.
- jrmg 3y ago[citation needed]
- jamilton 3y agoThe phenomenon they're referring to is when something spurious is posted on Wikipedia with no or poor citations, then used as the source for a "reputable" article (without citations), then the article is cited by Wikipedia, making the spurious information look more trustworthy.
- callalex 3y ago1) that hardly ever happens, it hasn’t caused any widespread issues in the decades Wikipedia has existed. 2) All sources are cited so they can be easily verified by the reader.
- abathur 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
- Nathanba 3y agoWhen Chrome launched, it only launched with ~2-3% market share in the first week compared to Firefox. Everyone thought that Chrome wasn't that good and Firefox would be fine. However I knew on day one that Firefox was in serious trouble and I switched browsers immediately. But what I didn't know is that Firefox would do nothing to compete for 10 years.
- taeric 3y agoChrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn, though. And... I don't recall this "everyone" that you are citing. Chrome launched when Google had a ton of good will.
- TechBro8615 3y ago> Chrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn OpenAI has $100bn+ from Microsoft, and millions of paying subscribers.
- datpiff 3y ago$100bn+? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/microsofts-complex-bet-on-openai-brings-potential-and-uncertainty.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/microsofts-complex-bet-on-op... "Microsoft’s $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty"
- TechBro8615 3y agoYeah, no idea where I got this $100bn number in my head... I guess that does sound pretty ridiculous now that I think about it!
- jshen 3y agoHow many of the companies with the largest market cap (top 15) were also in the top 15 20 years ago? Why do you think Google will be an exception to this reality?
- boo-ga-ga 3y agoI think the answer is network effect. As soon as there appears a properly working easy accessible alternative (not Mastodon), people with will start moving to it. At first it won’t be visible in twitter’s popularity, but when the new service reaches some critical mass of users - the popularity will start falling quickly. Let’s see if Notes is this alternative.
- ekianjo 3y agoBy the time someone makes a bad argument its too late. We are beyond reason.