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The endgame is getting corporate customers hooked on cloud-hosted subscription-model everything, then jacking the prices up.


The same with the AI thing Meta added to Whatsapp. After spending a while trying to search for a message whose exact wording I couldn't remember, but whose content was easily described, I thought I'd give the bot a try. Turns out it doesn't have access to my messages.

I expect MS will get there long before Meta does given they don't have the encryption issue to contend with.


I find it interesting that the Spanish consider the ñ to be a separate letter, in their 27 letter alphabet.


The double l "ll" is also a separate letter and is pronounced the same as y in "eye"


> if you didn't know better

It's funny how The New Yorker clings to this given its readership is mostly people who absolutely do know better.


The author, if I remember correctly from twitter, was a thorn in the side of the people who developed this system for quite some time. Given his profession I expect he made sure he was on the right side of the law before publishing this.


Agreed. I can't think of another area where AI could amplify the effect of my existing level of knowledge as it does with coding. It's far exceeding my expectations.


So, the internet was great until Facebook showed up.

Facebook of AI is coming and it's going to be much, much worse. and it'll still contain as you describe.


It must be heartening for a startup trying to build the best general search engine in the world to know that Google has absolutely no interest in competing with you.


Because Google makes money from ads, they're not actually optimized to build the best general search engine in the world, they're optimized to build the search engine that makes the most from ads, which is correlated with being a good search engine but not perfectly aligned. Our business model (paying directly for the search) incentivizes us to try to return the highest quality results, without any bias toward making money from ads. It also enables us to do things like pour a ton of compute/resources into a query to get the best possible results we can find, because someone would pay us a lot for that, and that's hard to do under an ads-based model.


Can you provide more information (or links) about that billing model you describe?

The incentive structure behind paying by the search has diminishing returns, as I see it. You need the results to be of a high enough quality to drive the user to want to run another search with you. Beyond that point, though, in the absence of a direct competitor, where is the incentive for you to continue improving search result quality? M


I asked it to phrase something in early modern English and then asked it a few unrelated questions without closing the window and it kept up the bit (doth this answer please thee?) and I felt obliged to keep laughing at it just like I would with an actual person.

I do find myself praising it as effusively as I would a human doing my bidding, and being slightly apologetic about asking for revisions.

No point in learning an entire new way of talking.


Ironically I had to open this in a browser to make this comment (since no app supports that advanced feature) but FYI the mobile version of Firefox supports the queueing up of multiple links for later viewing, rather than immediately switching to the firefox app every time you open a link.

It's not perfectly analogous to "open in new tab" on a desktop but you might find it helpful.

I know nobody uses Firefox on mobile but it seems decent enough to me.


I use Chrome on my phone. "Open in new tab" works just like on the desktop.

I wish these basic commands were first class:

- undo/previous/back

- read later/snooze/postpone/queue

- done/next/ignore/skip

- more/details

- agree/upvote/recommend/endorse

- disagree/downvote

- improve/contribute/comment/add

We could have focused interfaces like Tinder's (one item at a time) and easily navigate articles/comments/videos/reviews/products on any device.


Indeed. In Europe Monaco is a popular place for very rich people to (pretend to) live due to the lack of income tax. You are restricted in how long you can spend in other countries before being deemed to be domiciled there for tax purposes. In Ireland and I think the UK also, it's 183 days a year. And they do occasionally check, if you're rich enough.


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