johnnienaked

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by johnnienaked 4mo ago
Our very strong and very domestic stupidiy, naivete, and ignorance is way more important of a factor than foreign influence.
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by johnnienaked 5mo ago
LLMs are going to do none of this, so there's really no worry
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by johnnienaked 5mo ago
LLMs will be great politicians one day
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by johnnienaked 5mo ago
The cope about this "not being new" is pretty typical denial I'm glad to have left up there.
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by johnnienaked 5mo ago
Metaverse?
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
There hasn't been one dollar of profit from any company, it's more a battle of how low you can keep your losses
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
This seems to be a slow discovering of the inherent limitations.
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
Good article and it's on the mark
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
I thought bitcoin was cool for about 6 months back in 2014, and read everything I could about it. For the life of me I simply can't understand how people are still so interested in it or who created it.
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
Couldn't agree more. If you don't want to be famous in today's day and age, don't do infamous shit.
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by johnnienaked 6mo ago
Amazing to see a lot of the comments stating the exact qualifiers he laid out as potential counterarguments to his writeup. Did they even read it?
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
"they should not have had 12,000 to begin with" Nailed it
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
And every other civilized society except America builds internal power structures that inhibit violent self-centeredism. Maybe it's time we do the same?
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
Some of the money is spent. What happens when better models, more efficient cooling techniques, and other technologies hit? Seems like the best strategy at this point isn't dumping your entire FCF into datacenters, but wait and see if
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
I mean you're half right. Companies seek to automate some of their transactional labor and reduce their overall head count, but they also want a pool of low paid labor to rotate when they do layoffs, which are usually focused on the hi
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
The issue with framing this as a resurrection of the productivity paradox is that AI had never even theoretically increased productivity. I think in retrospect it's going to look very silly.
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
Who would have thought the median American life, something havily satirized and made fun of in The Simpsons, would become what people most long for. That, more than anything else I think, is strong evidence of how far we've fallen.
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
Well said. In music, it's very similar. The jarring, often out of key tones are the ones that are the most memorable, the signatures that give a musical piece its uniqueness and sometimes even its emotional points. I don't think i
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by johnnienaked 8mo ago
I think you're really overstating things here. Entry level positions are the tier at which replacement of senior positions happen. They don't do a lot, sure, but they are cheap and easily churnable. This is precisely NOT the place
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
We're talking about it because quantifiable variables aren't the only aspects of reality that matter. If a company does something profitable but it makes everyone but them worse off, there's an argument they shouldn't be
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
All these hyperscalers do is control the internet and suck money from companies that actually add value via that control. I can name on one hand the amount of successful products GOOGLE has natively launched (without acquisition). This pred
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
Right, but the unprecedented control of the public discourse on the internet by just a couple megacorps PREVENTS businesses from promoting themselves, unless they pay through the nose for the privilege. This destroys small competitors by de
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
I didn't mean to imply it was a recent invention. However, the almost total centralization of advertising in a few companies on the internet IS new. Their parasitism and malevolent monopolistic omnipotence is pretty obvious to anyone w
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
There is no competition in the ad space, so those companies can continue to just parasite their way to record earnings by stealing every other businesses profits. They create almost nothing of actual value, they are just heads of an ecosyst
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
They have all the control and no competition. The time for breaking these companies up or hamstringing them at least a little bit is many years past due. The problem is that monopolies are extremely profitable and are as "American as a
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
Do you genuinely believe the economy didn't function prior to the invention of the advertisement?
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
I don't think that's how it works. These companies have all the visibility control and make you invisible by default unless you pay them. It has very little to do with quality, demand, or any of the rest.
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
The solution is to prevent the privatization and wealth accumulation that flows from control of infrastructural technology platforms. Netscape, google, computer os, machine learning were all public or university research projects until the
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
It was useful for doing illegal shit
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by johnnienaked 9mo ago
See the same thing in the bitcoin space. If you ask them to explain the value to you, you're a moronic, behind-the-times, luddite boomer who just doesn't understand. Not to mention poor! I'll remain skeptical and let the tech

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