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In a free market economy everything is a strategic move to make the company more money. It's the nature of our incentive structure.
by parentheses 3y ago
In a free market economy everything is a strategic move to make the company more money. It's the nature of our incentive structure.
- golergka 3y agoYes, that's true. But also vast majority of transactions are win-win for both sides, creating more wealth for everyone involved.
- edanm 3y agoMost, but not all things are strategic moves. Some moves are purely altruistic. Some moves are semi-altruistic - they don't harm the company, but help it increase its reputation or even just allows them to offer people ways to help in order to retain talent. (Which is also kind of strategic, but in a different way.) Also, some things are just mistakes and miscalculations.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoThis, in my view it's a (very smart) move in response to OpenAI/Microsoft and Google having their cold war-esque standoff. Following the analogy : Meta is arming the Open source community with okish (but in comparison to the soviets and Americans shoddy) weapons and push the third position politically. Amazon meanwhile is basically a neutral arms manufacturer with AWS, and Nvidia owns the patent on "the projectile" I'm not trying to biting the hand that arms me - so thank you very much Meta and Mister Zuckerberg. Now someone, somewhere can create this eras version of Linux, hopefully under this eras version of the GPL.
- DeathArrow 3y ago>This, in my view it's a (very smart) move in response to OpenAI/Microsoft and Google having their cold war-esque standoff. But Meta partnered with Microsoft for Llama 2.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoSome degree of hedging is going to happen given that they're for-profit institutions and not nation states. But yes I forced the analogy a bit hard :)
- DeathArrow 3y ago>Some moves are purely altruistic. Like what?
- swamp40 3y agoDonating a kidney.
- dmix 3y agoI think they mean when a for-profit company does it.
- anticensor 3y agoEven then. Nobody is perfect, not even companies.
- edanm 3y agoRandom example - various projects Google does that are basically to help the world, e.g. help forecast floods. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/flood-hub-ai-flood-forecasting-more-countries/ https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/floo...
- BeetleB 3y agoOnly in a mythical marketplace are companies always rational.