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by cen4 2y ago
Most importantly Content keeps exploding. Total available human Attention does not grow. So how does Adtech generate more and more revenue and sells more and more ads year on year? Simple answer - Fraud.
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by cen4 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_decline
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by cen4 2y ago
Easiest way it to limit Ads. If you are selling more ads than there are minutes in a day * population some large enough group is getting mind fucked.
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Largest-ever batteries installed on a ship show their power during sea trials(tradewindsnews.com)
4 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
It happens already. You just have to find the docs who do it. Which usually means attending conferences which focus on specific diseases.
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by cen4 2y ago
This is like watching Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class but upgraded for our Attention Economy Age. In the past the Signal was - look at me, look at all these luxury items I have accumulated, look at my leisure activities, you want
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A tangled web of companies have a stake in the biggest AI companies(sherwood.news)
4 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
As business complexity grows it just gets hard for Tech, Engineering, Science & Creative folk to keep pace with the skills of Finance/Business folk. And this has a huge impact on trajectory of the majority of businesses. Cause with
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Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited(cbsnews.com)
3 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
It doesn't talk about Attention (of the consumer) as a finite resource. The focus is purely on the Influencer (producer). We have a system with ever growing "Content" but non growing Attention. How does a system that Produces
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by cen4 2y ago
More probably supply related. I worked at an incubator once upon a time, there was no dearth of funds to pull in from rich donors and investors. The issue was always finding quality teams and people. We ended up funding lot of poor quality
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by cen4 2y ago
The sanctions don't have a goal. So anyone can say anything. Besides Air Transport is a small ass part of GDP. Their MIL complex is on over drive, more than compensating for whatever hits the other sectors are taking. Their GDP is grow
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by cen4 2y ago
Waste of time. Just talk in terms of what they want to hear. They are just interested in the payoffs (not in the details). As info explodes and specialists dive deeper into their niches, info asymmetry between ppl increases. There are thous
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Australia launches 'landmark' bill to ban social media for children under 16(reuters.com)
8 points by cen4 2y ago|7 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
Its good they are talking. If your job is to build empire defense features into Chrome, then there is no one better to talk about which features to take out.
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by cen4 2y ago
I have been trying to kill a mosquito for about 20 minutes now. Can't believe what those speck of dust brains are doing.
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Comcast to spin off cable networks as subscribers flee the bundle(cnbc.com)
6 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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Early Adopters Snap Up Attention Inventory Before Everyone Else Drives Up Costs(adexchanger.com)
1 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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Robots struggle to match warehose workers on 'hard' jobs(nytimes.com)
4 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
There are lots of young people who are not ambitious. And as soon as you say that, there is a reactionary group that will come running to say well the problem is with teachers not being inspiring, curriculum being poor, society not creating
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by cen4 2y ago
Its just Natural. The World is much more complex and ever changing, than the chimp troupe has capacities to react to it all. When you look at Nature do you start asking why do we "need" blue whales or redwood trees? No one "n
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Insurance design to protect women from health and income effects of extreme heat(theactuary.com)
3 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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by cen4 2y ago
The US did rebuild Germany, Japan, S.Korea and Taiwan. Its hard to imagine these countries getting to where they are today without US involvement. They could have just followed British history and made these countries colonies with an Ameri
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by cen4 2y ago
Will just say, there are many different causes of Deafness. And therefore outcomes vary a lot depending on what the exact condition is. If the issue is with the auditory nerve for example, cochlear implants won't solve anything. And th
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by cen4 2y ago
archive.is/KHCcc
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Do banks stand a chance against tech giants?(scmp.com)
2 points by cen4 2y ago|1 comments
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Cross-border challenges widen wealth gap between Europe and US, IMF study finds(reuters.com)
1 points by cen4 2y ago|0 comments
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Opioid overdose deaths drop for 12th straight month, now lowest since 2020(cbsnews.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are. Does Bluesky change this dynamic?
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by cen4 2y ago
Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.

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