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This is a disingenuous article that makes the author sound both pompous and jealous of iceblock’s success. Each fact presented proves that this is not activism theater, and that the author is the one play-acting.

This original creator is absolutely in over his head and now finds himself in a tough spot. Any help he is offered could be just as malicious as the false reporting and fake reviews. If the author actually gives a shit, they should try and educate the creator. Or maybe just focus on building an android app?


What are you talking about? Since when can the general public travel in privacy?

My name is Peter Todd. I am a Canadian.

Tell me, where am I right now? I traveled there recently.

Governments certainly can find out that information, as my recent flights are recorded in lots of databases accessible to the. But it's much harder for non-government entities not directly involved in the travel to find this out due to privacy laws (particularly in the EU).


My guess is that this title could also be written as, “The value of AI projects are being captured by just 5% of companies.”

It’s pretty clear to anyone who’s using this technology that it’s significant. Theres still tons to work out and the exact impact is still unknown. But this cat isn’t going back in the bag.


> It’s pretty clear to anyone who’s using this technology that it’s significant

I disagree entirely. It’s neat, and it’s a marginal improvement over current-year google, but significant is an overstatement.


100%. Sounds like a very common oversight at many companies.


I haven’t once heard of a person addicted to Adderal outside of a DARE class.

Opioids however…


I'm currently addicted to Adderall. I also have a prescription for it and I have ADHD, but I'm still absolutely addicted. Without it I would suffer, and I would seek it out through illegal means if I could not get it legally.


I used to be addicted to Adderall.


I have a better idea, let’s stop pretending that someone is an expert just because they bought a domain name.

This post is full of non-sequitur assumptions, conjecture, and almost every logical fallacy.


Please explain.


There’s a chance you’re overestimating a large percentage of the public.


Then should publishing always be disallowed on all platforms? I’m having trouble understanding how is what Facebook is doing any different from ChatGPT, and in general all web apps.


ChatGPT sharing is anonymous + you are also having to share the link itself, it doesn't randomly go to other people's feeds.


Oh that’s terrible, I didn’t get that part.


If a part of the population is dumb, the issue is that it’s dumb, not meta user interface.

I’m the first to bash on meta but there are things that they are not responsible for.


If you don't communicate at a level suitable for your audience, then you're not communicating. At best, you're just making noise. At worst, you're being a manipulative sack of shit. I do not believe Meta are in the noise-making business.


No, the issue is that Meta is weaponising that stupidity by breaching naive trust, and that's... stupid too. But for different reasons.


Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.


Is it just me or does extracting moisture from the air seem like a really bad idea?


I take it you do not live on the south or east coast of a northern hemisphere continent?

People there usually have a surplus of moisture in the air most of the time.


A surplus according to who? Those ecosystems exist for a reason. Are we talking about terraforming Earth? For what purpose?


Most people prefer not to have mold growing in their home, even if you think it's unnatural for the ecosystem.


Nobody is talking about terraforming a planet. That's a ridiculous extrapolation.


That’s easy. None of the value is in the software. The only value is in customers that use the software.


So again, no software, no customers, no value.

Those who provide AI to create the software will eventually take the customers directly. At that point, many existing companies of all kinds will just sort of be an unncessary intermediary.

It's not too different from how Amazon Basics monitored third party products sold on their site and eventually created a lower cost, often better product, to compete with them. Ultimately stealing their customers.


This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen


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