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by gsatic 3y ago
They nee to get specific about "extending the light of consciousness" Here is the problem - 1. Networks grew. Devices/Content creation got cheap. 2. Cost of Broadcast fell to 0. Cost to spam fell to 0. 3. Info Exploded. Atten
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by gsatic 3y ago
Whats next is you bank directly with the FED.
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Thats the best our 3 inch chimp brains can do, in the face of complex ever changing systems. People have been saying the Post Office is dead for about 100 years now, yet number of post offices in the world havent declined.
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by gsatic 3y ago
India looks like a very overhyped market. Most of the wealth lies in a handful of cities. Margins outside are wafer thin to non existent.
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Meta shares jump as job and cost cuts reign in unbridled expansion(cnbc.com)
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by gsatic 3y ago
They didn't know what they built. And there are no real fixes. It's your basic jurassic park story. But the only diff is things scaled so fast, they got the whole world inside the park, before ppl started noticing how dangerous th
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by gsatic 3y ago
The Attention Economy/ads have directly or indirectly funded cheap smartphones/chips for 15 years now. Got to be some sort of peak since attention is scarce and shrinking. Future Demand modeling doesnt really take collective avail
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by gsatic 3y ago
I skimmed through it a few days ago, and didnt even realize it was an ad. Probably was paying too much attention to Aubrey.
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by gsatic 3y ago
> “If what you’re buying has gone up a lot relative to what you’re selling, you’re going to be worse off.” People are fully capable of understanding that. But advertisers 24x7 are pumping the opposite message into everyones head - that s
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Chinese retailers helped lift Meta's Q1 sales in tough online advertising market(cnbc.com)
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by gsatic 3y ago
Tax the advertisers by traffic volume ie spam. But that's for govt to do. There is no cost right now to keeping spamming ppl and constant incentive to collect data to provide better attention thieving services.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Can Chat GPT run? Is it legally possible? Like Kasporov vs deep blue.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Nice observation. Algos do unlock some of that value. But long way to go. Cuz they need much more info about ppl. For example, I know my younger cousins like certain topics that they cant get enough off, but if I see them busy with exams or
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by gsatic 3y ago
The main unsolved issue is Attention being Finite while Info is exploding. Big Tech invading privacy was a response to reducing the Gap between Attention and Info (collecting likes, monitoring activity was required to produce a better news
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They dont want to figure it out cuz they want to be them. Or in other words they want attention too. Which is why telling them don't participate in the attention economy doesn't work very well. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure
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by gsatic 3y ago
What are the conflicting views?
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by gsatic 3y ago
Mainly cause no one smart wants that job. It's just mindless politics 24*7. It's left to the mindlessly ambitious or ppl who are placeholders to prevent the mindlessly ambitious from sitting in the chair. We have passed the point
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by gsatic 3y ago
Wikipedia is quite amazing in terms of that social collaboration he is talking about. For example, during the recent pentagon leaks I was watching that Wikipedia page evolve day by day. It was much more interesting and faster than any news
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by gsatic 3y ago
Buzzfeed collapsed. Twitter is dying. Youtube is full of ads. Meta is laying off ppl. You know what no one talks about? Peak Collective Attention. People who make content of any kind, always talk about how they are going draw Attention to t
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by gsatic 3y ago
Obviously. Who wants to work on adtech? Only ppl without a choice or a clue.
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They say they dont have control over what they build and are "trapped" in their jobs. None of these engineers did anything to stop the attention economy which has already wrecked the system in countless ways. And now they are cryi
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by gsatic 3y ago
Tourism is just a story. Upper/cermonial classes exlst all over the world. Conspicious consumption and conspicuous leisure serve a purpose - you want to be like me then do what I say. Its a method of control.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Maybe look into Journalism. Journalism looks like Education/Pedagogy but its not. Its info compression. People are busy, attention is finite and you are giving them just enough to stay relevant in whatever game they are involved in. Ed
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by gsatic 3y ago
Why? Did the ants die out cuz the chimps got smarter?
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by gsatic 3y ago
They rely on advertising sure, but the part that comes from Search is ~150B $ (out of 250 B $). People kind of dont realize a large chunk of their Ad Tech is not Search related. Its the tooling for the Publishers to sell ad real estate on t
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by gsatic 3y ago
Google is not going anywhere and they will easily replicate anything OpenAI does. Its not that magical. Why they still rely on search/advertising is well known - Replacing a 150 Billion $$$ source of revenue is not a simple thing. Its
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by gsatic 3y ago
Dont worry about the "growth" hackers. Attention is finite. They cant hack that. How many books get added to a library, or how many ppl get shoved into the library, has no effect on how many books one person can actually read and
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by gsatic 3y ago
Well their main product really is Ad infra. And no one comes close to matching it. Its like they built a global real time stock market for Ads. For any possible search query, or space on some any page you click where an ad can be displayed,
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by gsatic 3y ago
Cuz if you can fool the govt into getting funding, you can fool the market too. Both are dumb in different ways.
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“AI is America-India technology”(thehindu.com)
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