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This feels like it should be state infrastructure, the way roads, railroads and the postal system are.
by vrganj 7mo ago
This feels like it should be state infrastructure, the way roads, railroads and the postal system are.
- TheDong 7mo agoNote that the (edit: US) postal system is a for-profit system. Given the trends of the capitalist US government, which constantly cedes more and more power to the private sector, especially google and apple, I assume we'll end up with a state-run model infrastructure as soon as we replace the government with Google, at which point Gemini simply becomes state infrastructure.
- vrganj 7mo ago> Note that the postal system is a for-profit system. That depends on the country in question :-)
- fineIllregister 7mo ago> Note that the (edit: US) postal system is a for-profit system. That's not correct. If USPS makes more revenue than their expenses for a year, they can't pay it out as profits to anyone. It's true that USPS is intended to be self-funded, covering it's costs through postage and services sold, and not tax revunue. That doesn't mean there's profit anywhere.
- Supermancho 7mo ago> Note that the (edit: US) postal system is a for-profit system. Pricing in the US postal system is not based on maximizing profit. Ths US postal system is not a for-profit system, at all. It is a delivery system (more or less) that happened to start turning a profit (2006) until PAEA. After that, the next time it made a profit was 2025.
- happyopossum 7mo agoThe USPS is self funding, not for-profit. The difference is both significant and consequential.
- dsr_ 7mo agoThis feels like a market which hasn't settled into long-term profitability and is being subsidized by investors.
- happyopossum 7mo agoAnd who is doing the research on this, training the models, and building new frontier models in your version of the world?