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by qwytw 3y ago
It's fascinating that this was downvoted. What the comment above is suggesting is literally a planned economy. How would these "consumer groups" even work? Would they be democratically elected? Appointed by governments? How w
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by qwytw 3y ago
In theory (and sometimes/often in reality) it results in more effective allocation of capital. It's not about "trickle down "econonomics"" but about those investors using that money to invest into more producti
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by qwytw 3y ago
How do you accomplish that? Historically "shareholders" as a group have been quite effective (often but obviously not always) have been quite effective at using at their money for society’s benefit. In fact every society which tri
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by qwytw 3y ago
How is that better? With buybacks if I want to reinvest I don't have to pay taxes on them and if I want to realize the gains I can decide when to do that myself (of course seem more like an issue in Europe and with companies which only
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by qwytw 3y ago
I would guess one outcome of that was a significant increase in bad words used on non live TV. Since they'll be beeped out it's not really big deal anymore.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Arianespace has worked quite well in the past, you have probably heard of it: Airbus Airbus owns 50% of Arianespace so it makes sense. > Have you heard of any other launcher company trying that recently? I guess the issue is that it
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by qwytw 3y ago
> The big difference is that ESA is essentially a government entity, much like NASA The relationship between ESA and Arianespace is not necessarily that fundamentally different to that of NASA and SpaceX. Arianespace is only partially st
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Soviet Union Or medieval Spain? About as likely... The Soviets weren't even able to get the factory floors clean enough to consistently manufacture the 8086 10 years after it was already outdated. > maybe people would have som
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by qwytw 3y ago
> this mission (e.g. doing unsafe things), then it's the board's duty to stop the company. So instead of having to compromise to some extent but still have a say what happens next you burn the company at best delaying the whol
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by qwytw 3y ago
> giving them the benefit of the doubt that they acted appropriately Yet you're only willing to give this to one side and not the other? Seems reasonable... Especially despite all the evidence so far that the board is either complet
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by qwytw 3y ago
> dishonest behavior from he did to openai, turned non-profit into for-profit and Yes and it's perfectly obvious that he did this without the consent of the board and behind their backs. A bit absurd don't you think? How would
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by qwytw 3y ago
> that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company It's perfectly obvious that these weren't the actual reasons. However yes, they are still incompetent because they couldn't t
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by qwytw 3y ago
Having more competition is usually inherently better than having less competition?
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by qwytw 3y ago
Aren't/weren't the people running OpenAI ideologically opposed to "too capable" opensource LLM models due to various safety concerns? > and its training data I'm not sure you can opensource something you don
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by qwytw 3y ago
I doubt MS could've purposefully engineered this chaotic "debacle". There is just too many potentially hard to control risk involved. Of course it is actually safe to assume that once this happened they did everything to to
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by qwytw 3y ago
> The software story for Apple is not there for complicated development tasks (for simple webdev it’s completely useable). Well.. it's understandable that some people believe that things which are important and interesting to them (
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by qwytw 3y ago
> wages and don’t suffer from problem tips in the US solve (AKA, insanely low minimum wages in some states for tipped servers). Well many waiters earn considerably more than the minimum wage in the US. In large part because of this syste
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by qwytw 3y ago
> those garbage US shenanigans where tipped employees can get paid a pittance Unless you're in California and some other states where there is "tipped" minimum wage and you get both a full wage and the tips. And even in ot
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Match kernel + BSD userland + NeXTSTEP, how Jobs have anything to do with any of this? Is that actually a serious question? Or do you just believe that no founder/CEO of a tech company ever had any role whatsoever in designing and
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by qwytw 3y ago
> When Jobs left Apple it went to hell because there was no one competently directing the technical guys as to what to build I'm not sure that's true though? They did quite alright over the next ~5 years or so and the way how J
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by qwytw 3y ago
> The usability of iOS is so horrible that I just can't understand how people decide to use iPhones and eat glass for the sake of the brand You do understand that other people might different preferences and opinions which are not
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by qwytw 3y ago
Isn't this mainly about what happened after the war and developing then hydrogen bomb? Did anyone seriously believe during WW2 that the Nazis/Soviets could be the first to develop a nuclear weapon (I don't really know to be f
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by qwytw 3y ago
> However, it's pretty clear that Sam just solely focused on delivering fast in order to keep his advantage Yes, I'd assume most investors prefer this type of approach to a more cautious one. Meaning that companies like this a
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by qwytw 3y ago
> (low death risk low crime). If you look at lower level crime (theft etc.) Western Europe and especially the Nordic countries are not doing that well. Sweden for instance has the highest levels of theft and burglary in the whole Europe
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They enjoy unparalleled safety in their cities. Plenty of countries/cities which don't are pretty safe too (e.g. Eastern Europe these days)
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From Microsoft? My point is that companies that are serious about making money (even at some indeterminate point in the future) are much better at attracting investment than those which have publicly declared it's not their goals. Nobo
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by qwytw 3y ago
> The push for the bomb was an international arms race — America against Russia Was it? US (and initially UK) didn't really face any real competition at all until the war was already over and they had the bomb. The Soviets then just
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by qwytw 3y ago
> it seems that computer scientists are serious about saving humanity How could they accomplish that without external investment? If the money tap dries up OpenAI will just be left behind.
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> Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off. But it's not just him is it?
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> I would be furious at being shocked more than pining in some weird Altman bromance. Hypothetically he might also have very little trust in the decision making abilities of the new management and how much their future goals will align w

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