Blake (he/him)

They’re a powerless middleman, no?

If I recall correctly they removed all “journalism” references on their website a while back and published their own page of ethics

Not if you want a music player. They’ve added podcasts everywhere possible

Companies, governments, and corporations are all run by people

Seems oversimplified and hyperbolic. The economy will always need people because people are the demand. And because markets are largely unpredictable, supply relies on people making strategic decisions. That will never change. Not everything can be quantified, collected, analyzed, and automated

Well yeah, but who would use a Chinese-based VPN? That’s asking for trouble to begin with

That’s opening Pandora’s box though, since you then become aware of illegal activities and take on a lot of liability

Bad employers eventually face the music

I haven’t heard discussion on this topic, but isn’t it possible for the LLM to interpret that 30k as good, reinforcing its own bad habits?

It’s worth noting these companies try to capture & record every inch of a city before entering the market there. Without these models the vehicles would drive significantly worse. This isn’t really a scalable business model from what I’ve read

People accused MKBHD for “killing” products with his reviews. Both cannot be true

I think it was pretty convenient for the specific use case of discovering an article you want to read later on an e-reader. Or so I hear

Assuming they’re not qualified is a form of implicit racial bias

How is it an alternative?

Generalizations aren’t productive

Only if it increased by a very large margin like a DDoS attack

The sell is a screenless phone with an AI assistant

That’s exactly right. Even if we made an AI that could give us the perfect solution and had accurate projections to back up its assertions, inevitably we’d reject it because we wouldn’t trust it fully. It cannot fix the often selfish nature of humans

Well, sure, but I’m sure most coal miners don’t feel super great about their specific job and profession generally. It’s a waste of resources and capital generally, not at a zoomed in level