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That’s the reason we can’t have nice things: the MoFos that will follow along when Evil Inc. does evil thing because they just can’t live without the latest wrinkle.

Silly you: no more wind farms means no more cancer! The Prez said so! /s

I was surprised to find out that he actually stuck with his original issue text and defended it later on. I understand being frustrated and all, but an apology about the tone was definitely in order.

It’s weird that high tech CEOs didn’t learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don’t like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It’s simply not solving their life’s problems.

AI behaves much the same way. It’s not that it’s useless, it’s that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.

I am not sure that rapid weight loss is the healthiest possible thing for someone of Trump’s stats.

But then again, if it works the drug maker gets a big reward, and if it fails then there is nobody there to punish them.

They must not get away with this. Thousands of lives ruined because of algorithms programmed to make you addicted, just so that their owners can make a pretty penny.

Having worked Silicon Valley through two boom-and-bust cycles, my impression is that these people hurt because they don’t understand their success. What I mean is that the Internet is a random multiplier: if you have the right idea at the right time and the right structure, you become almost infinitely rich. If you lack anything in the combination, you get nothing.

Take Facebook: the idea had been floating around for a while, but successive implementations suffered from technical, then legal issues. Then Zuck comes along, steals the idea, implements it successfully and boom, you have an infinillionaire. But when the same guy comes up with the next idea, it fails. Then the next one fails. Then the Metaverse happens and the failure is astounding.

It’s basically a lottery, where your startup is the ticket. One person wins, a million plays for nothing. The winner is selected at random.

But people hate that idea, so they come up with stupid “logic” justifying why Zuck won and Yang (Yahoo!) failed. You can’t imagine how many people in Silicon Valley devour Ayn Rand’s ideology, how many believe in genetic racial superiority, and other fairy tales. I was always surprised they didn’t go for divine intervention, but they are largely agnostic.

Maybe it’s because Ubuntu is relatively easy to take down? They wouldn’t host on a cloud provider for marketing reasons. At the same time, they just released Resolute, so there is a lot more legit traffic on their servers, which means more eyeballs.

But, yeah, definitely not a target that makes you think the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, whatever that is, has the world’s good in mind.