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Amazon draws in thousands to try out its AI service(reuters.com)
5 points by gsatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
Some strange things are happening to it though. As info explodes ( only .5% of content created is consumed as per UN Economist Network) how does cost of Advertising/return on advertising grow? The advertisors and marketing theorists h
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by gsatic 3y ago
They probably do have teams to retrieve crashed aircraft/drones/missiles etc being tested. Its not like they are going to broadcast to everyone what is crashing and how often, just cuz random people see things they cant explain.
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Block sues Mastercard and Visa over inflated merchant fees(forbes.com)
2 points by gsatic 3y ago|1 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
> I fear that the views of a generation of engineers in Silicon Valley have meaningfully drifted from the center of gravity of American public opinion This is not new. See the emergence of the Technocracy Movement as a reaction to runawa
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IRS ends unannounced taxpayer visits to combat scammers posing as IRS Agents(apnews.com)
23 points by gsatic 3y ago|6 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
Thats the fundamental reason we end up with an Attention Economy - People have limited Attention to pay to everything, But unlimited capacity/need to receive Attention (via Michael Goldhaber). This plants the seed for the info explosio
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by gsatic 3y ago
TV and movies are already suffering from over supply too. Scrolling through Netflix feels like the toothpaste aisle - https://metropolismag.com/programs/the-toothpaste-aisle/ Hopefully someone comes up with radica
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Tim Burton's Only $1B Movie Broke Disney for 13 Years and Counting(screenrant.com)
3 points by gsatic 3y ago|2 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
The thing is their tools are totally useless if traditional networks go down. And the prob with surveillance, in the age of the info tsunami, is not having enough people to go break down doors. There is no use if the dumb tool is flagging 2
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by gsatic 3y ago
AI will. Once we get past the hype and scam phase. People have forgotten the alternative to capitalism and communism proposed by Veblen and others was the technocracy. Back then there were no computers which is why the movement failed. But
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by gsatic 3y ago
Useful data but what does the "roughly 3% of all submitted posts" reaching the front page, Actually represent? Entertainment value? Novelty? Attention Capture? Biz intelligence? Rumor quality? What? Analysing that 3% (and there is
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The economics of the Birkin bag (2016)(economist.com)
70 points by gsatic 3y ago|71 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
He is an example of runaway mindless ambition. Mindless cuz the ship doesn't seem to have anywhere to go. The total number of eyeballs available on the planet is fixed. So Consumption is capped. Production on the other hand is in runaw
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by gsatic 3y ago
Weird part about the attention economy, where leaders emerge quite fast out of the blue and are capable of pulling huge attention to issues, is they all end up following the same playbook after getting popular.
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Bruce Lee’s enduring legacy 50 years after his death(channelnewsasia.com)
3 points by gsatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
There is a better way to think about it esp for the tech/engineering class that hangs out over here. Govts/corporations are full of ppl. People are programmed not just for Consumption but Conspicuous Consumption. Social status is
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The Supreme Court is so corrupt(aljazeera.com)
6 points by gsatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
That's cuz Theory of Bounded Rationality applies. When we are passed the point where ppl with their 3 inch brains can actually come up with answers to complex problems, you don't spend time asking them questions.
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by gsatic 3y ago
When you sell to Rich Arabs the rule is to follow the yatch salesman playbook. The main goal is to get an arms race going among them. An nytimes article (usually framed and displayed prominently) seeds the process.
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by gsatic 3y ago
#scalebots
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In India, fantasy gaming is causing addiction and financial ruin(aljazeera.com)
4 points by gsatic 3y ago|1 comments
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Hi-Tech Subsidy wars widen global divide with no end in sight(bloomberg.com)
1 points by gsatic 3y ago|1 comments
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Pollution fears after 350 drones fall into river in Melbourne lightshow fail(theage.com.au)
34 points by gsatic 3y ago|14 comments
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Frank fabricated 4.25M customers in JP Morgan fraud case(nbcnews.com)
49 points by gsatic 3y ago|1 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
Broadcast transmissions have always been regulated world over, not cuz the Regulators are great or act fast or are trusted, but cuz the Cost to Mass Broadcast, whatever shit occurs to a 3 inch chimp brain, is much greater than 0. The cost t
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by gsatic 3y ago
People don't get what info pollution has already happened. Estimate is only 0.5% of content produced is consumed https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_... Naturally platforms don&#x
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AT&T’s $13B pile of puzzling payables(ft.com)
1 points by gsatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by gsatic 3y ago
> These policies only work if small and medium banks have depositors so that's why everyone has a different local bank, etc Ofcourse. But this should be a choice. Depositors should be allowed to choose between a fed deposit account
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by gsatic 3y ago
Fed is moving so slowly compared to China or India. Going to be left in the dust soon. They need to open settlements up to everyone not just "financial institutions". Fed deposit accounts for everyone or Interest bearing CBDCs sho

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