In the same way that black hats will always be advantaged versus white hats, frontier models will always be advantaged versus derivatives.
Readit Newsjmatthews commented on DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/blumpy22
I'm not sure people understand what the consequences of taking away Google's ad revenue is. If a large enough bank goes under, it takes out not just the bank, but huge sectors of the economy, affecting many more businesses and jobs. That's why the government bailed out the banks when they failed.
The same will happen when Google loses its ad revenue. Google is an ad company. By opening up all its trade secret data, it loses its advantage. That will make it lose its core revenue. The end result will be Google collapsing entirely within a few years. Then those component parts people are talking about "opening up" will be gone too.
Here's a small number of things that will die when Google dies. Can you imagine how the world will be affected when these go away?
- Google Maps
- Google Mail
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Google Groups
- Google Forms
- Google Cloud
- Google OAuth
- Google Search
- Google Analytics
- Chrome
- Android
- Android Auto
- Fitbit
- Google Fi
- Google Fiber
- Google Flights
- Google Translate
- Google Pay
- Waymo
Apple has no alternative for much of the Business-focused products, so that will take considerable time for companies to adopt alternatives. But in the meantime, the world will become pretty broken for a lot of companies that depend on these tools. This will affect many more people than just Google's direct users. The whole web will shrink, and huge swaths of the worldwide economy will disappear. Businesses closing, lost jobs, shrinking economies, lack of services.
There are plenty of parties who want to see Google lose or take part of its businesses. But if it's not done extremely carefully, there's a very large stack of dominoes that are poised to fall.
You essentially outline why it should be broken up.
I'm not convinced making the ad tech sector more competitive would prompt that outcome but, "It would disrupt mature products" isn't a compelling argument to allow the existence of a monopoly.
Google is a monopoly, they exert monopoly power and enjoy monopoly pricing.
I think the more likely outcome would be more dynamic products under smaller bannerheads.
I would like to post this respectfully, just for posterity. The anti science insular concepts being assumed as fact, the discredited overpopulation theories, the sky is falling parts of climate change.
I can't credibly participate because from my perspective what is being discussed is a popular sci-fi series that I haven't read. The dogmas and rituals are alien to me.
jmatthews commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro
It is insane how tone deaf most of the comments are, jarring even. I forget how insular so much of the community is and I often make the mistake of equating intelligence, which exists here in spades, with critical thought.
Understand that most of the sentiment expressed here is identical to the pre-digested mass media pablum intended for 100 IQ consumers.
Think of mass media coverage of a subject you're an expert in and how horrifyingly wrong it typically is on so many levels, and try to rectify the two.
I've read the couple of critical responses but on merit, the message is true. Anecdotally, my wife takes hundreds of photos every month that essentially no one will ever see again.
Android has a memories feature that serves them back up to us on occasion. This is a pattern writ large for huge swaths of data.
Differences in governance or allowable access leads to mass duplication and data rot on anything remotely dynamic.
jmatthews commented on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-... · Posted by u/JustinSkycak
Lovely article, though honestly getting those prerequisites also takes a lot of time, effort and either motivation or discipline in ample amounts.
As someone who was the “smart kid” growing up, going to the university without good work ethic was pretty eye opening, no longer being able to coast on intuitively getting subjects, but rather either having to put in a bunch of effort while feeling both humbled and dumb at times, or just having to sink academically.
Even after getting through that more or less successfully and having an okay career so far, I still definitely struggle with both physical health and mental health, both of which make the process of learning new things harder and slower than just drinking a caffeinated beverage of choice and grokking a subject over a long weekend. Sometimes it feels like trying to push a rock up a muddy slope.
And if I’m struggling, as someone who’s not burdened by having children to take care of or even not having the most demanding job or hours to make ends meet, I have no idea how others manage to have a curious mind and succeed the way they do.
Admittedly, some people just feel like they’re built different. Even if I didn’t have those things slowing me down as much (working on it), I’d still be nowhere near as cool as people who dive headfirst into low level programming, electrical engineering, write their own simulations, rendering or even whole game engines and such. Maybe I’m just exposed to what some brilliant people can do thanks to the Internet, but some just manage to do amazing things.
I was that kid, now I have 3 sons and I am homeschooling my oldest because he is similar. The hack is essentially to praise the work, not the outcome. On some level you have to be unfair to your kid to be fair with him.
Any non paywall version?
jmatthews commented on Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles rmit.edu.au/news/all-news... · Posted by u/geox
Copper and copper alloys are great antiviral and antimicrobial. Why not work out the minimum deposition required to create that mechanic?
Interesring that Subaru is mentioned, but not Toyota. Recent Subaru models share a lot of electronic guts with Toyota.
You can't take this as authoritative but my business has a data relationship with Toyota and they have a ton of juicy telemetry data.
Their attorneys are mad protective of the PII they have. Our relationship serves the public interest. We use the data to find people with open recalls where Toyota doesn't know who the current owner is.
I say this to say that we have other OEM relationships that are far more liberal with their encumbered data. This far Toyota seems to be playing it very straight.
Seasonal storage at competitive prices per megawatt hour is somewhat of a solved problem it just doesn't seem to be getting investment.