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If I hate something Robert Scoble likes, I automatically know I am on the right track.

Needs an Esso petrol station in Milan as the background.

This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.

gotta love how the screenshot makes him look like a vampire

The Wittenburg podcast sounds like right up my alley, thanks for the tip!

can't tell if serious

this aged like fine milk (granted it's from 2019)

It is your moral obligation to use Firefox

Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?

I doubt it, unfortunately.

This landed on HN like a dead fish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722985

Another submission with what looks like a lot more positive spin got more reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726603

Edit choice comment from the latter

If you assume that the costs of inference would continue to decrease while they would be able to get billion people hooked on 42 per dollar plan..

That’s $0.5 trillion revenue rate

A billion people. Paying the equivalent of a premium streaming service. For something that can't even generate pr0n.

Color me skeptical.

To be perfectly fair i was a very callow youth at the time and probably bounced off stuff like that had I come in contact with it.

The funniest thing I got was ads for Maybelline in a podcast about WW2. Know your audience!

Yeah I’m sure it’s helpful sometimes. The issue is it useful enough to enough people to justify burning billions of dollars on training?

Ed isn’t criticizing GenAI, he’s criticizing OpenAi’s business model. Big difference.