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Counterpoint: Google is paying Apple $20b/year to keep themselves as the default search engine in iOS. Android's biggest competitor is iOS. They are now effectively funding their competition on a core product interface. I see this as strategically devastating.

There is a view that being a kindee is generosity, because you allow other people to express kindness (and feel good about themselves?).

oh no - archive.is no longer works for Bloomberg :(

Tangentially related, but I enjoyed reading "The Most Human Human" by Brian Christian - granted it's written in a pre-LLM world, it's still very much relevant.

The book is following the annual Turing Test competition, in which, humans are chatting with AIs or real humans without knowing which is which and give them a score out of 10 for being most human and the AI that is "the most human" wins the competition. The twist is, not all humans get 10/10 for being human either - so the human that's the most human also wins a prize.

Let's leave "liberal" definition aside. I agree it's not well defined - I only used, because you said "maximally liberal".

A dilemma is a hard choice. A paradox is a principle that undermines itself when applied consistently. It doesn't "seem" like it - it is. In this case, if you stop intolerant ideas, you are no longer tolerant. That's quite simple, and Popper named it correctly as such. Now, if I put my 2c on it, the danger of this arbitrary "Tolerant except for the Anti-tolerant" idea is that, the tools you use to stop the Anti-Tolerant will one day turn around be used against the Tolerant as well, because these definitions are fluid.

When the example are "People from X are vermin" - yes this is anti-tolerant. But when "We should first create jobs for people born here"; is this anti-tolerant? It's a slippery slope where all ideas except the ruling one can be muted.

Tolerance Paradox is not a "Tolerance Threshold" - it's a Paradox. You cannot be maximally liberal "up to Tolerance Paradox" - as soon as you are maximally liberal to any threshold, you are no longer liberal - hence the paradox.

The discipline of writing for sharing knowledge is immense - not only for the sharing part, but to look at yourself (or your research) in the mirror with a critical eye and revise it multiple times. If you don't have that discipline, sharing knowledge even with colleagues / networks becomes harder. It's not only LLM churning out slop, but it's also without that discipline, the researcher putting out half finished work.

Not only transactions - but state of the world.

Because, money.

"We really could produce working software faster with VB or with Microsoft Access"

Press X to doubt.

Let's stay positive folks! /s

Can you detail what you mean by good texting tool? What features are missing?

Can be said for all monopolies. I am not arguing that Amazon is not successful. They are so successful that they are now showing monopolistic behaviour.

The MFN principle is enforced - but only for the same reseller. The same product may be sold in another channel under another reseller, Amazon cannot touch that. AliExpress is surely outside of that scope. Also, EU managed to "convince" Amazon to stop MFN in principle in EU countries, practice is different (they don't enforce it, but give credit breaks) - it's still being enforced in USA and subject to legal challenges: https://www.johnstonclem.com/news-insights/amazon-antitrust-...

It does cripple them, but only those Amazon can strong arm. There are some companies that refuse to sell on Amazon for this very reason - one example I know is Jellycats. MFN applies at reseller level - not at product level (obviously).

Yes, it is monopolistic - some call it technofeudalism, because Amazon owns the "land" and extract land rent out of it - with questionable service in return.

Amazon enforces a Most Favored Nation (MFN) condition on sellers, basically implying that they cannot sell the same product elsewhere for cheaper. Funny enough - when Amazon pushes their fees higher, it means the prices go up everywhere, that's Amazon inflation.

https://www.proskauer.com/blog/amazons-most-favored-nations-...

Alien vs. Predator Whoever wins... We lose...

It is not velocity, it is not change. Have you read the graphs? What do you think 12% in Aug and Sep for 250+ Employee companies mean, that another 12% of companies adopted AI or is it a flat "12% of the companies have adopted in Aug, and it did not change in Sep"

Adoption rate is not derivative of Adoption. Rate of change is. Adoption rate is the percentage of uptake (there, same order with Adoption itself). It being flattening means first derivative is getting close to 0.

That's not an excuse. This company has more than a few handful of employees. Somebody saw those graphs without units, labels, tags and approved them. Have the CEO never opened their own webpage once and scrolled down?

Yep that's what I mean - looks like AI slop to me.

Even if it's not vapourware, the website makes it look like one. Just look at those two graphs titled "Jotunn 8 Outperforms the Market" and "More Speed For the Bucks" (!) ; WTH?

If (That's a big if) they can give RStudio experience in VSCode environment, benefiting from the plugin ecosystem etc. why not?

RStudio is great when you are doing your own thing, but when it comes to more generic tools like Git, LLM, Autoformatting etc. it's a hard pass.

It was actually the case for a very long time - albeit a very successful one, so you never realized.

Let's put an analogy to Google ads - the ads that appear at search results do not make up even 5% of their ad revenue. Even smaller for Meta. They earn their big ad revenues from their network, not from their main apps.

Tapping into AdTech is extremely hard, as it's hard driven by network effects. What you mean is "displaying ads inside OpenAI products" then, yes, achievable, but that's a miniscule part of targeted Ad markets - 2% is actually very optimistic. Otherwise, they can sell literally 0 products to existing players as they all have already established "AI" toolsets to help them for ad generation and targeting.

Would it have prevented this attack? It would still have published the secrets from your container to github.

looking at the rest of the site - not so sure. They seem to be having the same type of attacks directed towards many people.

http://techrights.org/o/2021/04/21/libel-campaigns/

Weirdly enough, mjg59_ was part of those?

https://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-19092...

Another internet rabbit hole.

This is a wild read. Reminds me of blogs written by the Temple OS guy. I wonder how they decided that this is coming from MG - there must be a backstory.

Or wire wrap your own transistors.

What was the harassment TR/TM was receiving and what was the libel they directed at MG? (juicier gossip please)