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by cm277 3y ago
I think the 'easy' answer is liability, same as it is for any other complex human engineering achievement. Liability though would mean at the very least allowing commit access to only identified individuals and companies that are
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by cm277 3y ago
The fundamental problem is that Apple cannot have it both ways; you cannot have both a marketplace where you tax merchants in and you compete against them at the same time. If you want a cut of Spotify's revenue because you are enab
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by cm277 3y ago
There's a disruption coming. One of the clearest LLM use cases is in learning and development. Another one is in producing "first drafts" of documents based on past work and "best practices". Both areas are what
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by cm277 3y ago
Or put another way, this wave may not be technology-based disruption but business-model based disruption. For example, if LLMs enable subscription or service-based models that deliver more value than ad-based/aggregator based ones, a n
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by cm277 3y ago
This; plus you need to duplicate structures to make the launch vehicle work in both air-breathing and rocket mode. This whole approach (incl. SpaceShipOne and Pegasus) was trying to disrupt non-reusable rocket launch. Re-usable rocket lau
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by cm277 3y ago
This. Also, no mention of other industries where American regulation has resulted in worse outcomes, higher prices and worse overall customer satisfaction. Banks. Healthcare. Real Estate. The list goes on. This smells like Tech lobbying bu
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by cm277 3y ago
It was fairly clear at the time that the main business plan for Be was "get good enough on Power PC so that Apple acquires us to retire System 9 and move to a decent OS". All ex-Apple people, Apple H/W stack, etc. It was a d
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by cm277 3y ago
I read the book. SBF doesn't come across as a good guy (or a bad guy either). He comes across as a smart/dumbass, who doesn't understand probability and risk beyond the math level: given 51% odds of making the world better or
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by cm277 3y ago
I've managed corps in a lot of different jurisdictions. Delaware is good because: a) it's well understood by almost everyone, b) there's very light regulation and accounting standards are loose, c) cost is reasonable for wha
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by cm277 3y ago
At this point, I suspect that "AI Safety" has taken on the practical meaning of "regulations to make sure the big guys are the ones who benefit"... which is probably true anyways because of the capex needed to run these
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by cm277 3y ago
Same here. My Spotify Premium sub will is the last one I would give up (after Netflix, or Apple, or Google). I got thousands of hours per year listening (yes, including podcasts) and so do lots of other people I know. Spotify is basically
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by cm277 3y ago
He's responsible for his actions and words to his employees, remaining customers and co-investors. How's this behavior not sociopathic? he's not accounting for the impact to others.
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by cm277 3y ago
I agree, to an extent: I think OSS commoditized the substrate of modern technology: OS, libraries, languages, etc, which made the higher-level stuff more valuable (Christensen's law). With commodity platforms, most of the value was le
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by cm277 3y ago
Disagree. Satya's Microsoft is more like Embrace-Extend-Share: he's running it more like an old-school conglomerate --not BillG's "one company to rule them all". AFAICT, New Microsoft is a platform of platforms wit
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by cm277 3y ago
Hold on... we went from talking about disruptive technologies (where a startup had a chance to create/take a market) to sustaining technologies (where only leaders can push the state-of-the-art). Mobile was disruptive; AI (really, LLM
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by cm277 3y ago
Only if you consider CAC on a per-query basis, against top-line revenue, in perpetuity. There's a word for this and it's not CAC, it's tax. And that's what this is, it's a tax on advertisers due to Google's m
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by cm277 3y ago
I actually think this is a pretty good (opinion) piece. We've moved to a society that over-values math/analytical competence --and FYI, my background is in numerical simulations, so I am/was mathy myself. This is also relate
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by cm277 3y ago
This is a good takedown I read [1] My own take: Andreesen doesn't get that politics/law/society also has "software", i.e. rules that advance and get complex as civilization gets complex. In a sense there is human&#
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by cm277 3y ago
As a somewhat successful businessperson that has hit rough patches: yes, the rose-colored glasses of financial success are real, but you also have to account for the bias around these people: society (to say nothing of close friends, family
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by cm277 3y ago
I don't like this article. What will happen if Agile people all of a sudden stop preaching Agile or slightly rename it to Extreme Programming or something? how will we know then who's not a qualified project/product manager?
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by cm277 3y ago
It won't, nor would the inverse happen, i.e. data ownership won't "take on the tech companies". That's what the TFA argues, that data ownership is the ONLY way to reduce the power of the tech companies. And what I
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by cm277 3y ago
I don't disagree, but I think the idea of owning your personal data is a red herring and/or a stalling tactic. The GDPR and its equivalents were a necessary first step, but I dont see how privacy can stop the market abuses and th
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by cm277 3y ago
True, but conversely if they don't do their job well, the utilities can kill people. Or if they werent price-regulated, they could charge whatever they wanted, hurting both life and the economy. I get the trillion-dollar caps; what I d
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by cm277 3y ago
Argh... not even. We don't own the power or water meters that serve our house, nor do we get shares/equity in our water/power consumption. While these are services that are actually critical for survival and most of them ar
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by cm277 3y ago
It's MUCH worse, because if this catches on in any significant way, it makes Google the main (eventually only?) provider of demographic data for audiences/tracking. Google already owns the browser market and almost owns the adver
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by cm277 3y ago
+1 (or 100 if I could). Besides all their satellite imagery, Google also knows the average speed on any road while you're navigating, so it can tell if a road is unpaved (or worse, for farm equipment rather than cars). However if it&#
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by cm277 3y ago
Consultants are software engineers for human software, i.e. how a business runs itself. Just like software engineering, there are best practices, state-of-the-art, ways to pass on knowledge from seniors to juniors, etc. Just like software
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by cm277 3y ago
I like the analogy with ants; we can observe ants, understand that their own individual needs / programming create emergent group behaviors and say "oh, that's why that colony behaves as it does" (making the colony of mi
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by cm277 3y ago
I agree with the article; GPT is not AGI, it's ABSI (automated BS intelligence). That's certainly useful and it will automate some jobs, but a) it's just an enabling technology for new applications, b) we haven't seen t
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by cm277 3y ago
This does make a bit of sense; Edge on Windows logs you into 365 and keeps the authentication around. So company links/attachments on Outlook can open easier on Edge using the 365 credentials. Now, if only they were actually smarter a

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