I love your point about social media. IMO, initially they didn't know what they had with social media - it took the right kind of uninhibited sociopath to monetize/weaponize it. That's why the MySpace guy is traveling and taking photos while Zuck is building island lairs.

This is where a functional government would step in. There's no magic in social media technology or LLMs. I'd think of them as a car. You can buy a Nissan Leaf of a Porsche 911. One is an ok basic car. The other is an (over) engineered experience in the form of a car. You cannot legally drive a Porsche to it's potential on the public highways... because we have laws that regulate driving and hold the operator accountable.

We're thinking about Claude Code or Gemini or whatever. The people running these companies are like "I want to exceed the power of John D. Rockefeller or Stalin." If we or the EU are going to regulate AI Labs, you need to grab them by the throat and they should be screaming about it. They seem to be very pleased with themselves. Barring real regulatory teeth, we would be opening the aperature to the Chinese companies to rationalize the valuations.

Computers are tools that exist to serve. Creating some bizarro process where we are compromising the technology in service of it's owner to achieve some nebulous goal is gross.

Anthropic is crowing about this achievement because they are afraid of the dirt cheap AI models coming out of China and eventually other places impacting their valuation. Full stop. There's some vague notion of preventing harm without any backing, but a very real cost for startups to develop a compliant watermarked AI model.

IMO, Canada has the superior bun. They also have the smoked meat sandwich, but their pizza is ass.

I don’t like environmental activists in general. They tend to attract well meaning people focused on a narrow aspect of an issue and pivot to a broader or specific policy goal.

I resent people in warm and cozy grandfathered in buildings in NYC making engineering decisions for me. Air side heat pumps are not ideal for upstate, and it’s making it impossible to build housing units.

Asthma is clearly correlated to urban areas with exposure to various pollutants. We’d see those same clusters in suburban populations with gas stoves if these indoor pollutants were elevating risk.

I live in New York. The utility in my region successfully lobbied to hike delivery rates for electricity by 40%. My spring electric bill is $300/mo, as much as my peak August or January utility bill a decade ago. 3-5 years ago, various foundations were bussing hundreds of protestors to lobby for climate change legislation that is essentially outlawing new natural gas service. They also prevented construction of pipelines to serve NYC and New England with additional capacity. All new construction must be electric only.

As long as you don’t say anything in the marketing material, you’re good.

The only science in supplements is the marketing.

I agree, totally not far fetched

Most SaaS already works this way. M365 or Adobe Creative Cloud are great examples. They value it like a life insurance policy and find ways to make you sticky. It’s easier to just buy it.

The first round of AI products suck because they are not well defined. Copilot only makes sense if you do shit in office and SharePoint isn’t a dumpster fire. In my large O365 environment the bottom 50% of users use less storage than the top 2%. So why would i buy copilot for my janitor?

When M365 E9 reconciles invoices automatically with Excel, I’ll pay $150/mo and fire a bunch of people.

All communications were via WhatsApp. They started with real stock tips (which were pretty good actually!) and then did a pump and dump.

See: https://www.cleuremissionfund.com/

I received a similar ad (mine was from the shark tank people), reported it and got a message similar to what you described. They were obviously stealing Mark Cuban’s likeness and peddling an obvious scam.

My dad died from an aortic rupture. He went to grab turkey to make a sandwich and didn’t make it back from the pantry.

It’s all hard, but knowing what she went through and the second guessing and impossible questions we all went through, I’ll take the fatal cardiac event any day.

Look, I have one camera with me and one child. As long as the camera gets better every year, I’m gonna want a better camera, every year. I don’t want to deal with carriers and trade-in shopping. Unfortunately this particular deal sucks compared tot he old one.

I’m not financially irresponsible. I value these devices highly and value my time.