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That is almost certainly not a meaningless demographic they pulled out of thin air. It might not be meaningful to you as a demographic. It might even be offensive to you as a demographic.
But, to the marketing company, that is a concrete “group of humans” that respond well to their product and advertising. It informs how they develop their ads, how they target them, which geographic markets they push hard in, what events they sponsor, etc.
When they define that demographic as the people they’re targeting, and allocate their capital towards targeting them, they see the highest returns they’ve been able to find so far.
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# A righteous umask
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That said, I also am unsure how best to overlap aliases and configs that are sensitive to my workplace with my everywhere config. Maybe I should have a .employer file that I source if it's there, but something about including that into my everywhere config feels decidedly not righteous.
But high trust societies only work when the price of ongoing admission is not violating that trust.
When you accept/tolerate/expect the violation of trust the doors lock.
I’d like to see an attempt by useful freedom respecting software projects to deploy patents to combat non-free reimplementations.
A GPL license that grants you rights to the backing patent as long as the software you develop with it is also released under the GPL license.
Use the library for closed source software? Copyright violation. Reimplement the software under another license? Patent violation. Create something slightly different and call it the same thing? Trademark violation.
With enough rules and good prompting this is not true. The code I generate is usually better than what I'd do by hand.
The reason the code is better all the extra polish and gold plating is essentially free.
Everything I generate comes out commented great error handling, logging, SOLID, and united tested using established patterns in the code base.
What most people call “non-deterministic” in AI is that one of those inputs is a _seed_ that is sourced from a PRNG because getting a different answer every time is considered a feature for most use cases.
Edit: I’m trying to imagine how you could get a non-deterministic AI and I’m struggling because the entire thing is built on a series of deterministic steps. The only way you can make it look non-deterministic is to hide part of the input from the user.
And then I asked it for [ad lib cocktail request] and got back thorough instructions.
We did that with sand. That we got from the ground. And taught it to talk. And write C programs.
Never mind what? That I had to ask twice? Or five times?
What maximum number of requests do you feel like the talking sand needs to adequately answer your question in before you are impressed by the talking sand?
Before that, I'd assume it was mixed - I think people were buying because EVs were seen as futuristic, and there was non-partisan support for Musk when his main association was visionary rather than political/nutjob.
Tesla was a virtue signal brand from day one[1]. Their core insight came from Palo Alto et. al. You’d drive through the suburbs and many driveways had two vehicles: a [insert gas guzzling luxury vehicle] and a Prius. One vehicle to signal wealth/status - the other to signal environmental consciousness. But the eco vehicle was a compromise; compared to the jaguar it sat next to, it was a clunker.
Tesla’s GTM strategy was that you could buy a vehicle, without compromise, from them to signal to your social circles how much you cared about the environment. And it worked.
They broke the oil cartels with a direct to consumer sales strategy and kicked off the EV market.
But now that market’s needs are well met. The eco virtue signal crowd has multiple vendors selling decent products to meet their buying preferences.
There is a fairly large untapped market though that won’t convert off of oil. That demographic overlaps well with the 2025 MAGA coalition. And, with Elon’s involvement in that coalition, Tesla EVs are now a new virtue signal for a new demographic.
You have people buying EVs that were rolling coal as recently as 2 years ago.
[1] The brand being built around eco virtue signaling is well documented in early interviews with original founders - a quick search will turn up many direct quotes talking about them driving through California suburbs doing market research and discovering exactly that.