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You take Zuckerberg seriously and believe his thought is of value. You are wrong. He is wrong. My belief is that we are over optimized for a particular situati

You take Zuckerberg seriously and believe his thought is of value. You are wrong. He is wrong. My belief is that we are over optimized for a particular situation that is ultimately unsustainable. You cannot make money if no one can pay you. That is the most serious issue corporations face right now. If you want some sense of that, ask yourself how the stock market is doing versus income. Then ask if it is sustainable for the stock market to do well people do not have money to spend. There was an interesting, to me, discussion about cargo cultism recently. You have seen "cargo" appear and so you think it is caused by the observable factors. And perhaps we can generalize the term: Cargo cultism: The belief that you know how to achieve a result when you do not understand the process that produces the result. We do not understand the effects of AI at this point. It is likely that AI will help people become more productive programmers. But this is a two edged sword for Mark. What happens if I say "AI: write a version of FaceBook in Rust". Or "AI: write a new a library in Rust that reads, writes and displays all files supported by Microsoft Word"? Hey for now I would settle for an AI that converted all my JavaScript files to TypeScript and back again so I get the benefit of types without the bother.

scarface_74 2y ago
The stock market is based on companies getting revenue worldwide not just in the US. > AI: write a version of FaceBook in Rust" If you had all of the source code to Facebook today and could set up the servers, you still couldn’t create a better Facebook. Microsoft has enough money to compete and create something as good as Google. But still was never able to beat Google Chrome or Google search. > AI: write a new a library in Rust that reads, writes and displays all files supported by Microsoft Word Today there is plenty of open source code that does well enough in reading and writing Word files there has been third party code to read and write Word since the 1990s. Yet Microsoft has maintained its dominance.

scarface_74 2y ago

The stock market is based on companies getting revenue worldwide not just in the US. > AI: write a version of FaceBook in Rust" If you had all of the source code to Facebook today and could set up the servers, you still couldn’t create a better Facebook. Microsoft has enough money to compete and create something as good as Google. But still was never able to beat Google Chrome or Google search. > AI: write a new a library in Rust that reads, writes and displays all files supported by Microsoft Word Today there is plenty of open source code that does well enough in reading and writing Word files there has been third party code to read and write Word since the 1990s. Yet Microsoft has maintained its dominance.