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by greg_V 2mo ago
Well, since the Luddites smashed the machines because they ended up impoverishing them while delivering shoddier quality goods and concentrating the profits in the hands of the few, I'd argue that's an argument worth considering t
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Tokenmaxxing is dead, and the real AI cost reckoning hasn't started yet(mimetiq.substack.com)
5 points by greg_V 3mo ago|0 comments
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by greg_V 10mo ago
We were promised a borderless world and instead got one without boundaries.
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Nvidia's 'I'm Not Enron' memo has people asking a lot of questions(theverge.com)
8 points by greg_V 10mo ago|4 comments
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by greg_V 11mo ago
Tbh, a lot of EU protectionism vs. US tech seems not to keep the competition out. In fact, with the amount of free press US startups get and the size of their coffers, they can simply roll over the local competition in EU markets most of th
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The glaring security risks with AI browser agents(techcrunch.com)
3 points by greg_V 11mo ago|0 comments
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by greg_V 1y ago
Google is already killing itself. The search experience has been getting steadily worse and worse on one end, but on the other, they're slowly strangling the incentives that were offered to publishers (ranking, traffic & monetizati
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by greg_V 1y ago
Also his criticism is very specific. Most of contemporary anti-capitalist or marxist thought that gets published is very, very abstract and hence toothless. It's easy to entertain radical ideas as long as they don't pit you agains
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by greg_V 1y ago
> Another thing that I hear from time to time is an argument along the line of "it just predicts the next word, it doesn't actually understand it". Rather than an argument against AI being intelligent, isn't this also
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Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse(theintrinsicperspective.com)
9 points by greg_V 1y ago|2 comments
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by greg_V 1y ago
The tech anti-intellectualism is different though. Like you see these kinds of posts that approach the subject as if no one ever has seriously studied it, and the tell is always that there's barely a scholarly work cited, but there&#x2
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by greg_V 1y ago
Tried to conduct a survey last autumn to learn about people's experiences with using AI SDR products. We pretty heavily promoted it in sales spaces, and got a jack total of less than 20 fills, with an overwhelmingly negative sentiment,
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by greg_V 2y ago
Anecdotal backup: as a child I had a horrendous dust allergy that led to multiple hospital visits. To mitigate the problem, my mom became a clean freak, trying to keep our apartment dust-free. The allergy persisted until I grew up and moved
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by greg_V 2y ago
I mean if you're publishing a book, especially a tell-all one, you'd go and talk to sources familiar with the matter who can independently verify whether the statements are true or not to shield you against defamation lawsuits. Pu
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by greg_V 2y ago
you could have the same site, but running different servers to serve different timezones / locales. kind of like old-school video game servers
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We Lost the Flow(honest-broker.com)
2 points by greg_V 2y ago|0 comments
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by greg_V 2y ago
Spammy rewrite of a Ted Gioia post from last week: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-we-lost-the-flow
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Qwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovation(medium.com)
17 points by greg_V 2y ago|4 comments
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by greg_V 2y ago
The number is not the amount of buildings, but the amount of drones you have when you build the building
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by greg_V 2y ago
That's a fairly accurate assessment of marketing theory. Rory Sutherland's Alchemy talks about this in more depth.
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The Stupidity of Google's Site Reputation Abuse Policy(larslofgren.com)
2 points by greg_V 2y ago|0 comments
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In(larslofgren.com)
4 points by greg_V 2y ago|1 comments
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by greg_V 2y ago
Oil is a special commodity in the sense that it's as important to civilization as water is to humans. It's also special in the other sense that we have geopolitical strife over who gets to extract it, sell it and to which market..
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by greg_V 2y ago
They have a 180 million users who are contributing no net revenue but are probably costing them significant amounts. The math comes down to the fact that they raised enough money to stay in business until they have to raise even more money.
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by greg_V 2y ago
Or another way to look at it, is that everyone and their mother has heard of them, and in 2 years they've only convinced that many people to pony up cash. Plus they have a massive churn problem with people quitting premium after 1-3 mo
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by greg_V 2y ago
No screen before bedtime/no screens in bed is like the easiest health improvement hack that anyone can implement. With that said, anecdotally I can vouch for the "no screen in the first hour" suggestion the article is making.
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by greg_V 2y ago
I run market research as part of my job, and yeah, you'd be surprised. PH still has a lot of users and not just from the indie hacker community, but there are a quite a bit of people who look at it daily to see if something cool or rel
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by greg_V 2y ago
Bingo. All the small shops who were doing actual reviews got wiped out, and this blog is basically documenting the new age of parasite spam eating the web and raking in millions.
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by greg_V 2y ago
The story is that it goes against google's guidelines and yet it continues to outrank sites that are within google's guidelines.
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by greg_V 2y ago
ahrefs by the looks of it

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