engineer: interesting. what problems has it helped you solve

social engineer:

"I can surround your child with dangerous unhealthy things and do my best to corrupt and poison them, there should be no limit to this behavior whatsoever because if I succeed it's your fault for being bad parents! All you have to do is say no, it's not like it's my full time job to make end-runs around you with the aid of behavioral science and psychology and a budget, no no no guiding your children morally is as simple as saying no once, are you too stupid and lazy to do that?".

what are you talking about; the main marketing strategy for so terribly many ai companies is to run around declaring the end is soon because their product is so powerful

>The only real solution to the threat of militarization of AI and robotics might be to create a more unified global government and culture.

At this point I think you're joking. Tightly centralizing power always results in oligarchy, kleptocracy, and collapse. And why do you think this central world government wouldn't militarize via your unstoppable robots?

Like you'll never be a big fish in a small pond. If you played as much as you currently do but could only play with people local to you, you'd be the best person you know at this thing. And that's a really good feeling. But you'll never get that feeling, because you should really be grinding past whatever plat 3 is in order to not suck.

So I don't know what this is.

Everyone I've ever talked to has an antagonistic view of these companies and most other american institutions, and the more you hate them and recognize they hate you, the better off you are financially.

Also downtown austin is disgusting; maybe they were just stunned someone would be there on purpose before the sun goes down.

Hope you enjoyed the museum/trip though

For a while, the internet had an end-run play that made that guy less useful. You can just go on the internet for obscure movie information, buddy.

But now it seems like knowing a movie guy is going to be the only way to get a real person's opinion on movies. The internet is about to forget everything without a profit motive and just start telling you that the latest product from a monolith corp like disney is the only movie worth watching. If someone scrapes all the useful movie opinions off of reddit and spends their time crafting it into a usable format, that guy's probably got a company. But not Bill. Bill's just a guy you can know or not know. You can't monetize knowing Bill. Sidenote that's probably why it irked me so bad when some bozo coined the phrase "social capital".

They need to make sure the stuff they want people to think is posted often and has a big number next to it, they need to make sure things that people like are associated with the stuff they want people to like/think/do and things that people don't like are never associated with the stuff they want people to like/think/do. They need to make sure that people who say the wrong things are silenced or persuaded to leave, etc etc. Man they probably have at least one contact in at least one intelligence agency and they have to make sure not to run afoul of that contact.

Like the news isn't just a list of what happened recently, political debates aren't just two guys talking, and reddit/twitter aren't just message boards.

Then again most of what that site does is just blend and regurgitate the information that's currently on it anyway.

There's an established player with institutional protections, then a scrappy upstart takes a bunch of VC money, converts it into runway, gives away the product for free, gradually replaces and becomes the standard, then puts out an s-1 document saying "we don't make money and we never have, want to invest?" and then they start to enjoy all the institutional protections. Or they don't. Either way you pay yourself handsomely from the runway money so who cares.

The upstart gets indexed and has an API, the established player doesn't.

The upstart is more easily found and modular but the institutional player can refuse to be indexed to own their data and they can block their API to prevent ai slop from getting in and dominating their content.

Like there are a ton of people who smirk at your last paragraph and go "nuh uh, hashtag late stage capitalism"

buddy every few weeks one of these bozos is telling us their product is literally going to eclipse humanity and we should all start fearing the inevitable great collapse.

It's like how no one owns a car anymore because of ai driving and I don't have to tell you about the great bank disaster of 2019, when we all had to accept that fiat currency is over.

You've got to be a particular kind of unfortunate to believe it when sam altman says literally anything.

Anyway here's the sales page. the widget subscription is so premium you won't even miss the subscription fee.

When you think about its main competition it's a little silly to keep framing it this way, but again, it's extremely effective so it doesn't really matter if it's right.