winterbourne

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   by winterbourne 4mo ago

   Possibly related to "showerthoughts", in that removal of stimuli allows for latent realizations to surface.
2. 32.▲
   by winterbourne 5mo ago

   The article doesn't address branding very much, but one of the theories for why laser-focused American brands (like Starbucks, KFC, or McDonald's) do so well in Japan is that Japanese mega-companies are too brand-diluted to compet
3. 33.▲
   by winterbourne 5mo ago

   That's true, those numbers don't work out for Google. But they have essentially unlimited resources to discover the exact threshold at which that person is just barely incentivized to keep their site active. $100K/year, reduc
4. 34.▲
   by winterbourne 5mo ago

   AI verbosity is similar to AI sycophancy: a dark pattern, disguised as earnest assistance.
5. 35.▲
   by winterbourne 5mo ago

   > If Google cuts that out completely, what incentive do websites have to not block the Google crawlers? Completely, yes, that destroys the incentive. But they can reduce it 80% or 90% or so, to the point that it's just barely worthw