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Comment · 16 days ago
so what? people still keep using the service and you make more money. the point of a company is to make money not to be as efficient as possible.

when a market is saturated you differentiate by being nicer than the competitors but most markets are not saturated customers have literally no choice.

Comment · 16 days ago
because you're too poor to afford anything else? why does anyone goto mcdonalds?

it's certainly not service that hasn't been good for a decade now. it's a consistent product not abysmal not great.

if a robot could reduce the chance of me getting soggy french fries and non crispy nuggies that's fine bring in the robot.

also lol plates and tables, how long has it been since you ate fast food? people eat in their car to avoid dealing with the shouting staff,dirty floor and sticky tables.

Comment · 16 days ago
what moral order? the moral order where america (and allies) bomb whoever they want to the stone age for not following their rules? where nuclear powers basically get to bully non nuclear states?

rules based world order never existed, thiel etc just openly acknowledge it.

yes atrocity is atrocity there is an equivalence.

Comment · 16 days ago
we're increasingly entering an era where holistic package matters more than cool one offs. musk is an asshole so he taints everything he does, even if it's kinda cool you're instantly reminded that tesla ships later(or never) and cybertruck isn't that good of a product. oh a car his company made did a 180 loop and landed an aileron roll? fuck you he was part of doge etc etc same with zucc or any of the "visionaries" nowadays, they have so much history that the forward momentum they need for anything is crazy.
Comment · 25 days ago
and saying ai generated content is all "worthless" and "disgusting" is not malicious? both are just signaling imo
Comment · 25 days ago
i think it was a bad analogy. he was talking about competent evil for eg ai enhanced weapons systems vs incompetent evil for eg middle easterners stoning people coz of religion.

both are evil but you can rationalise competent evil coz you're getting something real done like preventing the upending of the moral world order.

Comment · 3 months ago
i've seen tons of vibe captured peeps posting screenshots of their receipts. there is a market for fleecing gullible rubes
Comment · 3 months ago
it's an interesting insight into how openai thinks - they think they're being cool and trendy while giving you an overpriced product that would be 10 times better if you configured it yourself.
Comment · 3 months ago
doubt it - in the uber/waymo thing the guy got pardoned by trump after lobbying from thiel/luckey, probably a similar outcome for this guy since altman has trump's ear rn.
Comment · 3 months ago
yep the most that will happen is apple/openai co-branded devices or some sort of "corporate synergy" now that everyone knows apple tech is in the upcoming openai stuff. there's no value in it for apple to go nuclear like there was for google to push a competitor out of the market w/ uber vs waymo
Comment · 3 months ago
trump totally wasn't elected with the help of foreign interference no sir, it was all on the up and up will of the people to have an incompetent waging war in iran(despite saying he wouldn't) and siphoning up money from crypto scams and insider trading.
Comment · 6 months ago
Just like that - Smoking just got infinitely more cool among UK youth
Comment · 6 months ago
big prestige from people who still thing facebook/instagram are positives in the world i guess
Comment · 6 months ago
Apple software is unusable in india, no one uses it coz it has terrible data and thus the data never gets changed coz no one uses it. i have gotten wrong timings for gyms, wrong routes, it won't detect my home address from my contacts etc etc always find it funny when americans say "it's good now", no brother they fixed all the glitches in states it's still launch apple maps trash in india

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