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The real question is if the money leaves AI stocks where does it go.

Someone started that lawnmower and pointed it your direction. Why shouldn't they be responsible when the lawnmower runs over your foot and cuts it off?

If an individual hacked these sites they would be criminally and civilly responsible.

Why don't we hold the companies launching AI agents to the same standard? They would be more responsible if there were some serious consequences beyond just bad PR.

I don't know how it works today, but 20 years ago bookstores wouldn't return unsold books (too expensive to ship) but would simply tear the covers off and throw them in the garbage.

People keep repeating the "rare books" without providing any evidence that they are rare. Anyone who has collected books knows there are massive volumes of old books that can be bought by the pound.

Where's the evidence the books are "rare"?

>120 biolabs in over 30 countries

And yet the only ones listed in detail are the ones in Ukraine, huh.

You should ask BigCo if they're only providing goods/services to their customers "for the money."

He did so well with Theranos

Now we're seeing more colon cancer in young people. All of the discussion is around factors that change slowly (diet, alcohol, exercise), no one I've heard has pointed out that a pathogen would explain a quick change.

Have always been fascinated with Paul Ewald's arguments (as laid out in his books The New Germ Theory of Disease and Evolution of Infectious Disease) that most chronic illnesses are due to pathogens.

This seems similar to the "let's just rebuild from scratch" impulse that has been tried so many times on very large complicated systems and often, although not always, fails.

I'm not arguing that layoffs lead to a death spiral.

I'm arguing that if you're on a downward trajectory and your primary strategy is layoffs and cutting expenses, rather than investing, you're not going to recover.

Anyone have examples of companies that were in trouble and cut employees and spending heavily and that led them back to success?

My personal experience with working for such companies is that it leads to a death spiral, but I recognize my sample size is small.