huurtehoog

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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Can you think of examples of that not happening? I mean, haven't you just described VC?
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
No, see, I'm making the opposite argument. This is not a bubble, this is a deliberate play by capital owners to increase returns on capital to the detriment of labor. Much like "the cloud" before. The increased capital intens
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
The purpose of the system is what it does. The goal is to increase return on capital. Take a look at the historical developments of wage participation in global income, labor productivity growth vs wage growth, and so forth. It works very w
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
"In microeconomics, management and international political economy, vertical integration, also referred to as vertical consolidation, is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company.&q
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
OpenAI leadership had a meeting and asked themselves: "how can we drive even more hype" Someone said: "we should stage some high profile 'incident' caused by our latest software" And here we are, reading their
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Self soothing behavior. Helps quell the anxiety derived from the dopamine threadmill of modern digital media. We're all becoming mental hoarders and discussing our piles of though junk in our digital storage units.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
That's not vertical integration though. Vertical integration would be the corn chip maker buying corn farms for example. I don't think there's a name for "buying makers of complementary goods".
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
I'd trust a hardware player to be way more focused on reliability...
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
This is the opening move of the end game for the current "AI" wave. Hyperscalers and hardware manufacturers will absorb the overgrowth and hopefully (for them, sucks for us) settle at the top of the software value chain. The only
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
There's no system that can compensate for what people think, want, and do. We just need to be better. All anyone can do is be a bit better everyday. It's a monumental, hard task that we all just need to do. This is how society get
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Executive assistant to intellectual labor seems to be the killer app for LLMs.
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If you think islanders are not adept at contraband, you should read more, or better, history books.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Cognition is naming thing and counting things. Or as Aristotle would say, start with definitions. I really do not get arguing about semantics. It is all arbitrary. You need to agree on what is meant to even intend on having a conversation.