Round and round the investment scam goesâ¦when this bubble bursts, nobody knows.

You are right, I didn't know or didn't remember those.

After reading this little twitter rant I have to know if the entire book is more or less crazy than the distilled version. I have have to smoke a lot of weed to get through it but I will try.

In January of 2025 I switched from iOS to Android. After using iOS for over a year I am convinced that Tim Cook has never actually used an iPhone. Siri, Maps, and autocorrect are all train wrecks and always have been. The system settings app seems to have been organized by rolling d20s. If Cook had actually used iPhones the people responsible for some very important parts of iOS would have been sacked in the 2010s. Hopefully Ternus actually realizes how terrible some parts of iOS are and will actually get them fixed.

Who am I kidding? This is Apple, they'll just add another lens to the back of the next iPhone and offer a blue model.

Think about the incentives involved in the new AI race.

We've inventing a new type of machine. The machines are big and huge and complicated and consume enormous resources, so they're necessarily centralized. These machines are wondrous marvels. You can ask them a question and 9 times out of 10 they give you a relevant and useful answer.

People are naturally trustworthy of machines because we view computers as infallible. If I store contact information in my contacts list and go back and retrieve it later, the information is still there 100% intact. It augments our brains with perfect memory and recall. After all, that's what computers do.

So almost everyone trusts these new machines intrinsically. Few people question the answers that are given, and even if you were a little skeptical, it's much less work to convince yourself that it's probably right than to track down the supporting material.

The organizations that control these new machines have a perverse incentive. They can make far more money by manipulating the answers that the machine produces in subtle ways for their benefit, or for the benefit of their paying clients. "What is the best dishwasher?" "Are there any pharmacies in my area open until midnight?" "Summarize the political platform of candidates X, Y, and Z." "What medication can treat such-and-such disease?" These are all prompts that can be monetized by the AI provider.

We know they will because companies have been inserting paid advertising and results into our search queries and emails for years.

Imagine the power that you wield if you own a machine that everybody trusts implicitly with their most important questions and most sensitive information.

That's clearly what we're building. We can't say we didn't know and weren't warned.

I'm pretty sure zipline would have a lot of incentive to patent it. But you can license patent rights.

Back in the day lots of people did. Because there was no built in browser to use before IE came out. And pirating it would require getting a cd from someone else, and cd burners weren't a thing yet. Your options were use AOL with whatever they had built in on their cds, or use Netscape which you'd need to buy.

In the 1990s there was only one person in my circle of friends who could get a broadband connection. He would download from the warez scene ftp servers and the rest of us went to his house to load up Zip disks of the latest releases. But once CD burners became affordable we all switched to those and our Zip drives were forgotten, tossed in a box of old hardware that eventually went to the great recycling center in the sky.

Right. You are applying legalese word precision assumptions to throwaway online comments. I don't think that's going to work well.

No, the one that answered:

"You know what he means, ahole. If this were truly a problem the jet fuel would be rationed and private aircraft would be at the bottom of the priority list"

The entire point of rationing would be to REMOVE the pure market forces that would deal out the limited commodity to those with the largest wallets and replace it with a scheme that benefits the most people, instead of the most money.

If you actually knew better, you'd have posted it, not just made a vague assertion.

Yes, and the only ships running on nuclear reactors are military ships. As I said: No civilian use-case.

If tickets were an auction, the problem would instantly solve itself. You could even still have a secondary market for last minute buyers. And the extra revenue would go to the venue/artists, rather than a random scalper.... if those even exist anymore. I expect it's more likely Ticketmaster themselves selling them as resell at a 3x markup.

Comedians get their news from TV news and newspapers. The Friar's Club does not have bureaus in London, New York, and Hong Kong. They are not bringing the world unbiased original reporting.

This is one AC that deserves to be modded up. I already commented, so I can't.