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Everything worked out in the end? Are we living on the same planet?

You do not amass those levels of wealth without being a tone deaf douche bag in the first place.

Of course they don't, they're trained and steered not to talk to you like that.

Unless they plan on scooping up AI researchers, I legitimately don't understand what "stronger AI skills" is even supposed to mean.

This line of thinking assumes being profitable is the only thing that makes something desirable or not.

The comparison to me sounds like "you dont have to take a plane to travel between countries, paddle boats exist".

My 8yo keeps calling any piece of software he can run an "app", regardless of it being on a computer, a website, or a mobile device. I object to it out of principle, old man yelling at clouds style. But fundamentally, it's just code I interact with to do something, I'm just used to using different terminology for each runtime. The term website came about right before we really had anything interactive on the W3, describing something rather static.

All this to say, we're both right and wrong in feeling this way lol

Is the far left in the room with us?

I've heard it quite a bit before, but mostly from second-language speakers whose first language don't have impersonal third-person pronouns - e.g. French uses "il" or "elle" for all of "he", "she" or "it".

It doesn't help that the marketing leans heavily on anthropomorphizing LLMs either, IMHO.

My guess - China.

We already are in a system where we foot most of the consequences.

Guess why the US now has a "Department of War".

Both.

Personally it'd be for a kid's profile. I feel like that'd be a usecase for many.

Terracotta pie!

I mean, I did leave a role because the things we were doing clashed heavily with my principles (ad-tech adjacent). I had the luxury of doing so - an opportunity arose somewhere else, I could afford to make the move, etc.

But it's also hard for me to imagine someone that today, chooses to interview and take a job at Palantir, and not know what they're up to, who Thiel is and what he stands for.

Let's not go down the semantic argument route and pretend like the impersonal you is not a thing in the English language.

Gabe Newell (Valve/Steam) seems to agree with your analyst friend's take.

> The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-...

I was asking about the concept of “hive mind”. Is the concept accepted as a “thing”, has it ever been measured in any way, and if yes, what is it?

The comparison only works if the concept of a “hive mind” is as accepted and defined as the concept of a brain, which is quite literally what I was asking.

Is there any scientific basis for some kind of shared collective thought I don’t know about? In other words, what’s the “hive mind” if not the collective result of individual minds?

> If you don’t like that, just don’t buy from them…

This line of thinking only works as long as there are decent alternatives that exist. Now that Google is going this way too, the alternatives just plainly don’t exist at all, especially for those bank/government/security apps depending on Play services.

This is already what’s happening on iOS devices. Signing services like Signulous[1] basically buy a bunch of developer licenses, and registers your devices on it. The keys eventually end up getting revoked, obviously.

[1] https://www.signulous.com/

… why?

With how car-centric North America is, there isn’t much to walk to for a lot of people. Things are just very far from each other. I’d walk places a whole lot more if I had things at a reasonable walking distance, I used to do it all the time when I didn’t have kids and lived closer to the city. Back then, I sold my car less than a month after moving there, and relied on car sharing services for the odd trip outside of town.

Nowadays, I’m in a medium-sized agricultural town in Canada, not far outside the larger metropolitan area where half the province lives. Realistically, at a walking distance, I have a convenience store, a drugstore, and a small co-op hardware store. The closest grocery store is at least a 30 minute walk. Both my sons’ school and daycare, the closest market or shops I’d go at, they are all 4+ away.

> the general hacker news group think about AI

I’m surprised to see this. From my perspective, reading comments and seeing which posts rise to the top, HN as a whole seems pretty bullish on the tech as whole…

I guess times have been tough for a long damn while then…

Do you consider things to be that single-faceted, that other factors cannot realistically be a part of the equation?

This. It’s nothing but corporate Newspeak for “installing software”.

I legitimately never even thought of this, and it feels very obvious in retrospect…