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by boh 4y ago
Looks like click farms have expanded into book publishing. The tech revolution of diminishing standards seems to be progressing steadily. You can now ride in your Cruise self-driving car that drives slow and stops in awkward places, while r
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Compared to where?
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The "legitimacy" of the Supreme Court has always been in question, especially if they draw conclusions that people don't agree with. Law is subjective despite whatever fabulistic narratives that may suggest otherwise. That&#x
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Tech isn't particularly complicated from a legal perspective especially in this case. Regardless of whatever algorithms or infrastructure being used to power it, Twitter and Google function mostly as media companies. Section 230 was pu
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I don't know why a company that loses billions of dollars a year and is known for bizarre driving patterns is an example of AI success. Confidence in AI is a product of faith, a lack of confidence is a product of evidence.
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The idea of AI taking over customer service jobs essentially just means "we need an excuse to stop providing customer service". The open secret is that AI isn't very good at anything. That's why you're not getting d
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There's no legal requirement for profit maximization, it's that simple. That's why it's not enforceable, it doesn't exist.
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If this blog post helps you sleep at night knowing your investments have the solid protection of "fiduciary duties", then so be it. Laws tend to be specific to foster enforcement. Notice the lack of congressional hearings for comp
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Since we weren't alive for the king's tolls we may romanticize it as a counterpoint to our corporate-centric organization structures, but while you may believe it to be "insidious" and maybe it is, it's the only rea
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They actually don't. If there's any regulatory statute you wish to cite free to share it. Shareholder primacy was a 20th century marketing campaign to get investors more comfortable with investing their money. There's actuall
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Not very much. Just issue filings and have meetings to retain the company's corporate status. They may have unique contractual obligations that may result in a lawsuit should they not be fulfilled but those aren't necessarily &quo
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US companies aren't legally obligated to maximize profits. Managers are at risk of losing their jobs if shareholders decide to vote them out via a proxy battle due to poor profitability, so there are incentives to max profits, but ther
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Nope. Feel free to cite whatever regulatory statute that legally demands profit maximization. Also when you buy a share of Apple you are not a part owner of the company. You are granted rights to board votes and cash flows in the form of di
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To get into politics. 8 US presidents were Harvard grads.
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I highly recommend reading The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor. The book does a good job explaining the essential aspect of law in codifying assets into capital. Wealth is impossible to own and maintain without legal support.
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People seem obligated to contort themselves into new displays of productivity every business cycle. Is being just a person with a job who works for money not acceptable? Must everyone have a "passion" for selling ads on the intern
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It feels like the fear of the all powerful AI is giving the space way too much credit. In the same way that register-free Amazon Go stores and driverless cars were supposedly destroying working-class jobs, the rogue AI gives a false narrati
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It's here but not exactly a huge success: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co... Although making a profit is generally a foreign concept in Silicon Valley, at some point just pou
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Why are people so confident about this tech? We've had years of underwhelming AI products--why is the hype for this so different? Is it because it's the most recent?
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Have you read the article? You'd have to have 100% faith in the tech to allow it to side-step an actual person. Unless your site is purely a click-farm, you're still probably hiring someone to check it--so what's the point of
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by boh 4y ago
I don't get the point of comparing apples to make a point about oranges. Flying isn't AI. Nor is "progress" a permanent state. If you want to stay in the flying comparison: in 2000 you can fly from NY to Paris in 3 hours
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I think the ultimate problem with AI is its overvalued as a technology in general. Is this "amazing level of comprehension" really that necessary given the amount of time/money/effort devoted to it? What's become cl
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The main priority of "Big tech" is profitability not freedom. They're not "giving in" as much as they're following a business model to maximize revenue. Ultimately internet censorship will benefit the biggest c
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US regulator orders halt to minting Binance-branded token(ft.com)
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We're about as close to AI "escaping human control" as we are hosting the Super Bowl on Mars. If there's one thing what we currently call "AI" has absolutely none of, it's actual intelligence. The rogue AI
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I think the evidence of any even perceived "crisis" is still lacking (besides these fun articles).
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It's funny that there's literally no indication that Google is losing any material market share but somehow Bing with a chat bot (that just launched this week) will, for whatever reason, dominate the market (it's almost as if
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I think when it comes to the tech business, due to the VC voodoo of the recent past, where "possibilities" are propped up long enough to safely exit while leaving the economic realities of a business to the public markets, basic
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I think it's justifiable to tip for service but if you're just picking something up, it's retail, and that's not something you should be tipping for. The writer should've choose a custom tip of $0.
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by boh 4y ago
Not sure why you need a whole article for what amounts to a product review from a disgruntled customer.

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