Readit Newskkaatii commented on How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rewrites the rules of search a16z.com/geo-over-seo/... · Posted by u/eutropheon
I can't imagine how the feedback loop between LLMs optimizing content so it will be picked by LLMs based search engines will end. But it won't be good.
Not too different from how SEO ends. Just spammy content written by bots.
kkaatii commented on How friction is being redistributed in today's economy kyla.substack.com/p/the-m... · Posted by u/walterbell
Did I miss where the author defines what "friction" is actually meaning?
But certainly a very impressive exercise in creative writing based on taking an analogy too far.
Agree... while there are valuable and interesting notions in the article the final conclusion and the so-called curated friction is just too stretched for me.
Love it! This is a very useful tool to provide me with introductory (but granular enough) information about new investment ideas that I have.
Just two cents based on my usual workflow --
1. I like to compare companies within the same industry, so it would be good if i can ask follow up questions after reading a report like "How does company Y compare with company X on XX metrics?"
2. I understand that the reports are generated by a model; if that is true, maybe you could cross-reference the fillings with their corresponding earnings call transcripts (should be available for free on many investment websites) and highlight what is being discussed/asked in the calls as well
Again, thank you for the great work. Already pinned your site to my browser's investment workspace XD
kkaatii commented on Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D epoch.ai/gradient-updates... · Posted by u/ydnyshhh
It's the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions all over again. Broad automation of labor will not result in societal uplift, but Capital uplift, absent worker action to enforce equal distribution of gains (like how Unions brought us the 40hr work week and the end of Child Labor w/ the Industrial Revolution). Worse yet, the irrationality of these techbro arguments shows their complete lack of long-term thinking or systems analysis.
They cite "societal disruption" through the wholesale (or significant) replacement of labor via AI, but then shrug off the problem as one for government to solve - governments they own, control, and/or influence. Yet if we take them at their word and they get rid of labor - who the heck do they expect to buy their stuff, and with what income? Capital's plan is very much (Eliminate Labor) + (Continued Sales of Products) = (We Keep All The Money), and I'd like to believe the HN community at the very least can see how that math does not work.
Capital would have to concede to a complete rework of civilization away from consumption and towards a higher goal, but that would entail tearing down the power and wealth structures they benefit from now with no guarantee of a brighter future tomorrow. Plowing ahead with AI while prohibiting any attempts at systemic revolution isn't just irresponsible, it's insane, and I'm tired of having pretend it's not for the sake of a stock price somewhere.
Present systems are incompatible with an AI-dominated future, full stop.
One danger is that, from a macroeconomics view, GDP growth can be attained without any regard for natural unemployment rates. When technology, controlled by capital, drives up markup on wages by displacing human labor and killing competition, then natural unemployment will rise, but the economy can still "thrive," from a statistical perspective. But it is individual persons being ignored by statistics. Indeed a grim future.