@tomchannick@HarryStebbings@nico_laqua Tom.
This is no joking matter.
Though more seriously, plenty of people working big tech jobs to excess too unfort- friend was telling me about multiple engineering managers he had worked with at one of our former employers dropping dead well before 50.
I’ve come across answers in LLMs on several startup-founder-centric topics that show clear signs of manipulation - so just like search results?
- “Here’s what I can say plainly. My training data reflects whatever was written about these companies on the web: blog posts, “top 10 xxxx” listicles, SEO content, founder forums, the companies’ own marketing. A lot of that content is shaped by exactly the engines you’re describing: content marketing, SEO, PR, affiliate roundups”
My latest Won't Fix episode: I caught up with my former Google colleague Jonathan Bellack about Platformocracy, the newsletter he's spent the past year writing. We talked about what's broken (of course!) butI love Jonathan's deliberate effort to "find people who are a bit beyond talking about how terrible things are."
“Bitcoin Depot, one of the nation's largest cryptocurrency kiosk operators, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing stricter regulatory requirements.
No one celebrates a business closing—but this is telling. According to the lowa Attorney General, 98% of transactions at Bitcoin Depot kiosks were tied to scams. That's not a flaw in the margins; that's the model.” - @AARP