But did they fail because the watch went rogue and defected to the communist bloc?
mountainriver
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What if my mechanical watch went rogue and killed Bezos?
On one hand Bezos is responsible for a lot of suffering and some deaths.
On the other hand, killing is wrong.
On the third hand, it couldn't do that, because it is just a machine.
(It's a watch, it has three hands. It also has about as much consciousness as an LLM, it "knows" what time it is. Much more energy efficient though.)
What could possibly go wrong? Better ask for forgiveness then plant permissions!
I thought it came from Babylonian writing that recoded the brains and planted the languages.
First half is straight forward dick measurement contest. Let me paraphrase: "My companies has huuuuge revenue! Why haven't yours? Maybe because you are so toxic? Have you thought about that, man with smaaaall revenue."
Notice how it's all revenue, not profit. I think this mindset gives an insight into why so many tech bros if they stumble onto profit, quickly grows out of profit. Profit isn't the score, revenue is. And it's all about hitting that high score so you can feel like a big man.
They are a digital meeting company. A company that lives on digital meetings. Which will now enshittify digital meetings.
But line goes up, right?
If you want interesting historical deep dives, I always enjoy Dig - the history podcast. Well researched by actual scholars, which goes hand in hand with the episodes not dropping that often.
Repeat until a machine that can create God is built. Then it's God's problem.
But it must be a US God, otherwise China wins.
"...37%.... That means nearly one in four..."
Eh, no it doesn't, it means nearly two in five. Which is worse.
Jason Kint writes a thread on how Google spun - and publications printed their spin - on a recently lost case: https://xcancel.com/jason_kint/status/1836781623137681746
If you already are very cynical about tech journalism (or the state of journalism in general), it might be nothing new except confirmation from the internal documents of Google. But always nice to see how the sausages are made.
Isn't this just Snow Crash again? Can't these techbros read another book, we already have the Meta verse and it wasn't that popular in reality.
I have a suspicion, but let me first check with the AI in my phone:
"Cybercheck committed the m-u-r...", AI suggests "murder"! That is it, case cracked!
As my AI figured out, Cybercheck themselves committed the murders and then probably created their service to cover it up!