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The two are not mutually exclusive, but Google has been the dominant force in tech for decades and therefore has been very much an integrated part of Big Brother's operations for some time now. Palantir is, yes, more corrupt, but they're also the new kid on the block.
Anyway, both are true, and if I could wipe one off the face of the earth it would be Palantir.
Indeed, it is literally an ideology.
Ding ding ding. Google is only a few steps away from the "Orphan-Crushing Machine", or the pods that imprison/enslave people in The Matrix, because it is literally the hardware-software-businessmodel matrix which creates and maintains conditions of oppression through unprecedented surveillance and other late-stage capitalistic evils.
If the office software they created existed in a vacuum, it might be appreciated. But it is there as a honeypot to onboard people, particularly the most impoverished, into their dystopian hellscape. And I say that as a 20+ year user who, nevertheless, uses their stuff knowing all this, because it's often the best solution in a world of bad solutions.
Indeed, their competition is the only thing preventing network effects from giving OpenAI/Faang tech companies an easy shot at monopoly / regulatory capture.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
Harvard (as credible a source as there is in the world): USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.
So about half a million children died, children who had no other recourse but to depend on this system which was already in place and for which there is no alternative.
If you "crack up" over the death of children, you're lacking some basic humanity.
Yup. This guy is a straight up white supremacist.
Generating leads for new work, if you are a freelance. Automatically answering customer support emails, if you own a SaaS. Monitoring competitors' socials, websites, etc for new features you have to compete with. Monitoring updates on software you depend on for breaking change / deprecation announcements.
Subsidization could affect both of those. If you have $200B in the bank you can afford to throw massive compute at every single request; if you are less well funded, you might throttle more aggressively.
Additionally that same VC could be (read: is always) spent on developing the harness, and other infrastructure around the model, not just the model itself.
So it's apples-to-oranges when comparing a relatively new model to established competitors (i.e. OpenAI @ $900B funding vs Moonshot/Kimi's $30B FYI) because every new model they release is judged on "performance" which is not strictly speaking derived solely from the model.
It's possible Moonshot could get similar performance over time as the build out the rest of the infrastructure. We have no way of knowing how much of OpenAI/Anthropic's success is due to the model vs intelligent tooling built on top of it.
Unbelievably cool!
This is well done. How did you source and categorize the data points?
Decentralization has the benefit of minimizing the possibility of a tyrannical federal government, by design.
This is a step in the wrong direction, at a time when the tyranny is no longer hypothetical.
How very Cyberdyne.
Well, given all your comments in this thread, thanks for outing yourself as an insane person.
Infuriating.
Are you trying to troll? You're going to have to do harder. All of your "arguments" are patently absurd.
First, there is an order of magnitude difference between billionaires and millionaires.
Second, nobody is saying the billionaires should be treated unfairly; quite the opposite, the basic proposition is that they should be treated fairly - taxed like everyone else, according to the same principles, which is (in principle; not always in practice) to each according to his need, from each accorrding to his ability.
Third, plenty of people in big cities would be happy for billionaires to get the fuck out. I'd say the majority.
The "evil" is not just in the effect, it is in the callous, sociopathic disregard for the sanctity of life that lives in Zuckerberg and all the individuals involved; that is the evil "prima materia" out of which downstream actions and outcomes are borne.
Perhaps I am not the target demo, but there was so much jargon on that page that I did not have a firm grasp of what was even being said.
Your argument rests on the fallacious implication that Corporations behave as people do and therefore should be held to the same standards. In reality, corporate behavior is driven the aggregate of the greed of the individuals who comprise its executive suite, not their rationality or morality. It makes sense to critique corporations, BECAUSE they tend toward the self-serving even if it is destructive to the world. Whereas an individual is inherently less destructive, by virtue of not being a) VC backed b) legally obligated to create profit and growth for shareholders c) they have a conscience
Your reply really indicates that you are either completely unaware of all of these incredibly obvious facts, or you are trolling.
The banality of evil, everyone.
The writings of an individual human and the writings of an advertising/propaganda machine come from different places and achieve different results.
Did you literally never stop to think about that, or are you deliberately shaming individual thought in a bad faith manner?
I love this! Great UI, and the spirit of it is very early web. Thanks for making this. Totally captures the feel of Tokyo!
Why do this?
Then why are you posting about it here, if it is only for use by people who are already your customers? By the way, this response is baffling, you still need a license, otherwise anyone adopting your software is exposed legally. Your lack of awareness about that tells me you're young and inexperienced.
Why is it unlicensed? That seems insane.
Presumably after a month or so of being worn during the day and taken off at night (when the breathing doesn't apply -- and the device knows this), the device could deduce what the influence of the wearer is.
No nefariousness other than the subjugation of the majority of humanity? You're insane
Whether they believe it or not is immaterial. It is the end-goal they want to achieve, because then they own the means of production entirely.
These are all great ideas.
Let them run away. As Marx pointed out, Capital does not by nature spread itself, but rather concentrates itself in the hands of the few. Billionaires do not add to economies, they are parasites that extract value from them. That means they become unlivable. Tax the billionaires, and that offsets their impact. Get rid of them, and that eliminates them completely. Housing and other costs will diminish. Win win.
I think you are mistaken.