tomrod

To use a fearful, apt analogy: resolving the operational issue isn't just plugging the hole in the dam, its also fixing the damage by pumping the water out and then addressing the damages.

In the pure economics/marketing sense, a Google Maps listing is an advertisement.

I expect for most people that these forms of advertising - directory listings, basic notifications, etc. - aren't a level of cognitive pollution that they notice vs. overly bright billboards, banner ads, search injects, or LLM-injected marginally relevant sources.

Based on your prior comment, I think you mean "effort taken for delivery" in an abstract way. I think that is part of it, but "increased revenue through additional or higher value transactions" is what I think about when I say "increase in business." This is something that can be affected by the true sense of advertising - giving notice about your business - but has diminishing marginal returns.

They are running loads of fiber. If it's worth the trillions then it's worth some easement beside a railroad.

> Why does it need a whole manipulative extraction industry around it?

It doesn't, especially at the aggregate scale it is at!

What do you mean by "real world logic"? Observed behavior, logical abstraction, or handwavy ivorytoweredness?

While we are approaching this with different modes, we broadly agree that advertising is cognitive pollution.

The cafe putting up a sign, hours, and a menu in the window are forms of advertising. Based on your other comment, I suspect you are painting with a brush of "all" when you mean digital advertising or targeted digital advertising.

No, I disagree. I'm a strong cynic of advertising returns generally. However, basic notification that something exists brings business.

This applies to the mom-and-pop selling something around the corner, not Coca-Cola. For Coca-Cola, their advertising money likely has negative returns at the scale they spend it.

I go back and forth. It's useful to maintain certain social connections, which I find harder to do as I'm getting older (weird to say that, I am on the young xennial side).

This is a centrally-run implementation of CloudFlare's VibeSDK. It seems pretty solid for prototypes though there are some missing features - I can't figure out how to specify models in the AI Gateway specifically and the build model is fairly weak, it doesn't seem to set up any infra but workers / doesn't have a JSONC editor directly or let you configure infra. A drag-and-drop or scripting engine would be nice.

It does allow temporary git creds so you can clone to a repo and upload to one of your own, so that's nice and helps with the finish engineering portion.

Not sure about Anthropic, unless they continue to fall over themselves in ego. They have strong GTM in my take.

Google is a bit oblivious (though is probably the smarter money based on diversification alone IMHO). OpenAI has folks wondering just how publicly Mr. Altman can blunder his wording before he gets ousted (today was along the lines of "you will own nothing" with his take that personal RAM ownership being an affront to efficiency).

All three are trying to convince enterprise buyers that central tokenmaxxing is the best thing since sliced bread; many of the circles I run in occasionally have huge (emphasis: huge in the 2010s ZIRP sense) buyers that are begging for more edge AI.

Org 1 will probably survive better as they will adopt the right primitives - logging, compliance, etc.

Ref: Agent management by Microsoft, AI Gateways springing up everywhere, etc.

I feel this is black-titlebar worthy. RIP, you inspiring man.

Then I have failed to explain myself. What I was saying is that "economies of scope will reduce prices due to reduced costs" will be the core argument massive corps argue when merging and concentrating market size -- and that rarely happens in reality.

The BATNA:

- Other delivery service

- Other task service

- Go yourself

While they are an effective duopoly, it would be good to also consider them as monopolistic competition versus a true market split out -- there is very little traditional moat, and almost only network effect due to restaurants accepting their services and menu.

But economies of scope, such as they exist, can be good for consumer welfare (unpopular as that is to discuss in current public forums).

Two chunks of overhead (IT, web app, mobile app, finance, HR, etc.) instead of one can be bad for consumers too.

But yeah, flexing pricing increases to gobble up consumer welfare is what the FTC is supposed to rally against, and, while services expand their markets aren't that different.

EDIT: Wow, people really hate this comment! I'm not being normative here. Economies of scope are the thing that any acquiring companies with any reasonable market share will argue for their case, its textbook economics and what the FTC is trained for.

I like elif. It means exactly what I want it to mean!

I've asked myself this question as well.

Where I've landed -- once I get away from the distaste for load-bearing or a comment mentioning "spine" -- is that if the idea pushes me forward, challenges me towards improving, or otherwise informs, I'm okay with AI assisted writing.

I'm not okay with formulaic garbled nonsense, that annoys me!

Other way around. Raschka's been doing this over a decade.

What do you think is coming that isn't already in the old world?

Cerebras with Claude 8?

I appreciate that context!

Alphabet and Meta are misclassed, they are information technology.

Tesla should (probably) be in industrials, as a car and battery tech company.

Amazon is hard to class, you might check if they break out to subsidiaries for AWS versus consumer retail. Part is definitely competing with Walmart.

Any word on rooting TCL models?

This is the bucket I fall into. Seeing this everywhere and it makes a lot of sense to me.

I appreciate your comment as it sets expectations on what the technology can do today.

What would need to be true for the capability of creating and using antimatter to become feasible?

The amount depends on the margins to a degree. Now that tech XYZ exists, building a mimic probably requires less R&D, no?

Loitering is well defined topic, I think if we bog ourselves into a semantic wrestling match we'll lose valuable time from our lives for little value trying to convince the unpersuadable.

So I'll only go as deep as a quick search for "loitering definition" -- the first hit aligns to what I hold as my personal understanding:

    Loitering is the act of standing, lingering, or waiting around idly in a public or private place for an extended period without a clear, lawful, or obvious purpose.

We paid for a first class ride (but through a discount website, for like $10 difference? I still don't understand the pricing) that had us on a regional train then a local train in Germany. It was a new experience for us and came after about 20 hours of flights and layovers so we didn't want to have a challenge to arrive.

On the local train we were unable to take luggage into first class (a small number of seats blocked off by a plexiglass entrance), but folks were very accommodating of some clueless Americans just trying to go a few stops down the track.

The regional train was nice, but second class on the way back from our destination was just as comfortable.

Long story short, the claims of comfort and cleanliness between the classes didn't really seem apparent.

This made me laugh very hard. Thank you.

I think this is a fascinating technology. I wonder if it is currently energy positive (so that we can engineer it into a functional source) or at least if it can be extended to be captured in bulk (antimatter rockets!).