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"AI Safety" is too broad to be a corporate plot, but there are some demands that people make in the name of AI safety that are obviously in the interest of frontier labs, like for example for NVidia to be banned from selling to China.

This reminds of when it was a shock that Alpha Go won a game and then it was a shock that Alpha Go lost a game.

Humans don't live by the clock. People in Spain and Poland aren't awake at the same time, merely because they live in the same timezone.

> Mercator is the most-widely used projection (Google Maps uses it, for one), but it was created in 1569 during the age of exploration. It's mostly good for sea navigation. Any straight line drawn on the map represents a constant compass bearing.

It's also good for knowing how much daylight you get somewhere or whether someone there is likely to be awake right now.

It's hard to think of a name worse then "spotify" itself, but fast "fastpotify" may be it.

> Almost nobody objected to my characterization of Google and Bing search results, but people told me that I was wrong about Kagi.

Paying for a product makes you defensive, especially if there are free alternatives.

> This seems to have happened in history; ideas proposed by lower status folks were less accepted until higher status folks reintroduced them

> For example, Richard Stallman’s software concept wasn’t accepted until rebranded as “open source”.

Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard and worked at MIT. If it was necessary to rebrand his ideas, it's certainly not because he wasn't elite enough.

> Semmelweis’s hand-washing was rejected until Pasteur and Lister’s reintroduction

Semmelweis’s results were already treated as obvious in britain during his lifetime, and Lister worked in that tradition.

The most important thing I remember from Impro is that we all have habits we adopted as children that we still use as adults, even though they no longer work.