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by anonyfox 4y ago
Ever played some civilization (the game)? A mostly military focussed society can force others into unfavorable agreements, but while doing so other areas of society are lacking, amounting to huge problems later on when a) blackmailing for s
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Money as a forcing function seems to come to an end, also I really am laughing right now how the US tries to suppress TikTok so it doesn’t overtake all these social media companies seemingly unable to compete :-)
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Not at all. At some point you have to have you money somewhere, and good luck if bank employees as well as people working as private security turn against you. These robots also have remote killswitches, and are prone to EMP. There simply i
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by anonyfox 4y ago
You are right, still I always think of https://www.quora.com/Why-are-American-cities-essentially-al... this on the topic… :-) Yes a walkable city is a massive life quality factor, but one can only „get it“ after experiencin
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I think with the advanced level of weaponry we (will) have, the is no thing like a truly gated community no matter the bots. And given the amount of time needed to actually build this against the current pace of AI progress, the angry mob s
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You are not wrong but also forgot the reasons… Most stuff you cheer here is basically a few tech giants out of Silicon Valley. The science kickstart for all that came from a bunch of scientists (like Von neumann) you got when winning WW2 fr
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At this point I simply equate Bard with Russias military: much fear for nothing. Still not beaten, but totally useless and laughable either way. If google intentionally released such an inferior thing while already in panic mode against an
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That’s the total opposite most people around me (many immigrants from the US!) experience for the like last 2 decades actually, where have you been to that draws such a funny picture? Europe has more % Entrepreneurs/Self-employed peopl
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by anonyfox 4y ago
How about striding for one of the core societal values that make many advanced democraties (including the European nordics) so much better/happier than the US? It’s called Equality. Insert strong progressive taxes, especially on wealth
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And without a society around them to support them, they would be unknown and busy trying to survive. Even if many people might not be able to do some genius things, they do other stuff that is ultimately mandatory for the geniuses. So yes,
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by anonyfox 4y ago
you assume that the vast majority of people in china are outright unhappy with their government right now, I don't think that this is the case. And trump is simply an idiot that only get enough votes somehow because both parties in the
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by anonyfox 4y ago
it begins with everyone has enough to begin with, and whatever is importent is available as public services. there are different flavors to do this, the currently best implementation is to have very high&progressive taxes that fund a st
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by anonyfox 4y ago
you are completely right, but for today I strictly want to see google burn for all the things they have done, all the companies that got killed by them (including some friends getting laid off and so on) and destroying the open web (www) I
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by anonyfox 4y ago
french revolution and socialist revolutions went different. its not preventing the machines, its strictly solving the problem of who owns them - fairly easy thing. It "only" needs to build up a bit more suffering for the masses un
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you vastly underestimate civilians. probably not a single gun is needed. a crowd of people at some point will walk into the billionaire's home and make him agree with handing over his wealth. They might call the police, but all thats n
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Focussing on the climbing is the core problem I think. Why even do this? We collectlively should own the machines and guarantee just wealth distribution, so that its impossible for a few to have much more than than others. Then every increa
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u forget that there are torches and angry mobs of people, right? at some point a forceful redistribution of wealth will happen naturally, like it did in history many times before.
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1) pretty sure microsoft is willing to operate at a loss when there is a chance to destroy google in the process - comparing billions is not wrong but irrelevant here 2) there is a significant chance that lets say 25% revenue loss occurs wi
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by anonyfox 4y ago
> ChatGPT is slow don't you think that Microsoft Azure engineers are right now working hard at scaling/tuning stuff from openAI? I see this as a solved problem soon > its usecase is quite narrow, average ppl do not give a fu
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Infrastructure engineering as a foundation, since all this stuff ultimately needs some hardware, that has to be provisioned. Not to speak of plumbing/wiring stuff together and things like security/compliance… DevOps/Automatio
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I am very confident that in the current situation (looks at google), microsoft itself will HAPPILY shower wolfram in money just to make ChatGPT more powerful fast.
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no one around me can imagine that people would not google stuff anymore and use a chatbot instead, so why should they be worried about their business that is driven by web traffic from google? all the while they stop googling on their own a
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I have a feeling this will be an earth shattering moment in time, especially for us. Basically you can plug your business data into the Chatbot now, and ideally (or not far off) there is a transcational API call in the form of dialogue. Sou
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> My guess is they're panicking to reply this is what I don't believe anymore. Its strictly inferior and people should stop looking for defensive arguments and all that. If it is simply a smaller/cheaper/less parametr
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Too little too late, and even the wrong focus topic to survive as a company. Google is done. No one cares anymore what google does, its either inferior to alternatives and/or on the graveyard soon anyways. Time to move on.
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first: the innovators dilemma - AI-based queries are much more expensive than traditional search index queries + no comparable level of monetization, so it would cannibalize googles revenue massively and wall street calling the doomsday tha
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The point is, no one cares, google. - you probably are behind OpenAI ChatGPT, and far behind GPT4 in the tool's quality - people expect you to sunset the service soon either way, so no one starts to depend on it - at this point you are
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nontechnical people around me are turning for bing for search because its suddenly "cool" (also: that iphone app is actually cool!), or don't even use google AT ALL for most of their everyday stuff - people "tiktok"
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This. It doesn't even matter anymore how great the thing is that they sort-of-release. They're dead, the precursors of a giant falling are already there, even though current quarterly earnings don't yet reflect it at all. Wai

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