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beepbopboopp commented on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers   wired.com/story/grammarly... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
jacquesm · 5 days ago
Digital necrophilia. The living ones are the ones that are going to have to make the objections here.

This is revolting at so many levels.

beepbopboopp · 5 days ago
Please share how this revolting to you
beepbopboopp commented on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk   twitter.com/secwar/status... · Posted by u/jacobedawson
garbawarb · 15 days ago
This sounds like a message to would-be founders: don't base your company in the US. The strongest markets to do business are the ones with the most freedom from government meddling. In the US, big government is happy to use its power to crush private enterprise that it doesn't like.
beepbopboopp · 15 days ago
Name one truly major market that is more business friendly
beepbopboopp commented on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/j_maffe
beepbopboopp · a month ago
The account was created 2 hours ago. Everything is dead internet theory.
beepbopboopp commented on The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says   npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/backpackerBMW
hexbin010 · 2 months ago
The 1990s surely
beepbopboopp · 2 months ago
The 90s kids were chided for TV and video games by the 80s and 70s kids.

Im not saying people need to get offline more, but this time period isnt particularly unique in that sense.

beepbopboopp commented on The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says   npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/backpackerBMW
everdrive · 2 months ago
Doesn't matter. Every time some maniac invents some, we all need to scramble to adopt it. This is what _progress_ is. Is there's a new technology, we don't think about the consequences. We all just adopt it and use it so thoroughly that we cannot imagine living without it.
beepbopboopp · 2 months ago
Calm down, what actually happens is there is a reaction to new technology and then once its been used there is a counter reaction which takes into account what works and what dosent.

Is there a previous decade you'd prefer to return too for quality of life? Why?

beepbopboopp commented on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?   consciousdigital.org/chat... · Posted by u/yoaviram
trollbridge · 2 months ago
This sounds like excellent evidentiary material for a future insurer or government health provider to decide you're uninsurable, not eligible for a job, and so on.

And the great thing about it is that you already signed all your rights away for them to do this exact thing, when we could have had an open world with open models run locally instead where you got to keep your private health information private.

beepbopboopp · 2 months ago
This is an argument against the general data collection internet NOT chatGPT.
beepbopboopp commented on Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/davedx
burnte · 3 months ago
> Will there be the same overutilisation occurring if users have to financially support the infrastructure, either through subscriptions or intrusive advertising? > I doubt it.

I agree. Right now a lot of AI tools are underpriced to get customers hooked, then they'll jack up the prices later. The flaw is that AI does not have the ubiquitous utility internet access has, and a lot of people are not happy with the performance per dollar TODAY, much less when prices rise 80%. We already see companies like Google raising prices stating it's for "AI" and we customers can't opt out of AI and not pay the fee.

At my company we've already decided to leave Google Workspace in the spring. GW is a terrible product with no advanced features, garbage admin tools, uncompetitive pricing, and now AI shoved in everywhere and no way to granularly opt out of a lot of it. Want spell check? Guess what, you need to leave Gemini enabled! Shove off, Google.

beepbopboopp · 3 months ago
> Will there be the same overutilisation occurring if users have to financially support the infrastructure, either through subscriptions or intrusive advertising? > I doubt it.

Yea, I think this is wrong. The analogy is more like the App Store, in that there is very little to do currently other than a better Google Search with the product. The bet is that over time (short time) there are much more financially valuable use cases with a more mature ecosystem and tech.

beepbopboopp commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss   techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer
Havoc · 5 months ago
I'd be pretty worried as a shareholder. Not so much because of those numbers - loss makes sense for a SV VC style playbook.

...but rather that they're doing that while Chinese competitors are releasing models in vaguely similar ballpark under Apache license.

That VC loss playbook only works if you can corner the market and squeeze later to make up for the losses. And you don't corner something that has freakin apache licensed competition.

I suspect that's why the SORA release has social media style vibes. Seeking network effects to fix this strategic dilemma.

To be clear I still think they're #1 technically...but the gap feels too small strategically. And they know it. That recent pivot to a linkedin competitor? SORA with socials? They're scrambling on market fit even though they lead on tech

beepbopboopp · 5 months ago
Eh, distribution of the model is the real moat, theyre doing 700m WAU of the most financially valuable users on earth. If they truly become search, commerce and can use their model either via build or license across b2b, theyre the largest company on earth many times over.
beepbopboopp commented on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners   ir.ea.com/press-releases/... · Posted by u/rf15
fred_is_fred · 5 months ago
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beepbopboopp · 5 months ago
I want to start by saying I have no skin in the game here. While not perfect, Saudi has very clearly moved "Westernly" on many ideas, most notably social and economic ones. It can even be argued that their recent moves in that direction have made it near impossible for the other large economy companies to move too far the other way. Th

At what point does the narrative about their investments on the larger stage become less pejorative?

beepbopboopp commented on What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood   npr.org/sections/planet-m... · Posted by u/pseudolus
jameslk · 6 months ago
> But the bigger problem for housing affordability, he adds, is that "we just haven't built enough [homes] to keep up with the population growth and household formation."

The circular incentive here is left unsaid. If a house is an investment, you and every other homeowner has an incentive to keep supply low and demand high. This ultimately drives votes, lobbying, and policies that prevent houses being built. Otherwise you end up with falling rents and stagnating property prices, like in Austin.

https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/cooling-rent-growth-d...

beepbopboopp · 6 months ago
It seems like the only solution is going to be an FDR style president that sort of runs up against traditional liberties in order to to build. I do wonder if an interesting quirk of the current president essentially consolidated executive power for questionable reasons, leads to a candidate that uses some of those changes to bulldoze these types of projects back into America.

u/beepbopboopp

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