@saintniko Isn't that fully expected? Social media proliferates from followers to adjacent networks to a diffuse audience. The potential for scrutiny and disagreement grows the further away you are from that initial implicit alignment.
Think what you want of Elon Musk. Humanity got lucky that the world's richest man is a nerd who spends his free time playing video games, not a warlord assembling a private mercenary army.
@MattMorseTV And given the current demographic makeup of European nations, add a clause that requires immigrants to be at minimum third-generation Europeans.
@mikemorhaime@SamwiseDidier Maybe the author is just (too) fond of corrective antitheses, but I can't read the constant 'this is not x, but y' without thinking an LLM wrote it. Great interview though!
@DesheShai It's been almost a decade since I read Brad Stone's The Everything Store, so my memory may be hazy. But as critical as his account of Bezos is, Amazon certainly wasn't the Goliath in those early days.
@DesheShai That seems revisionist. It was B&N, Borders, the ABA etc. that tried to both litigate around marketing, antitrust etc and lobby against Amazon (esp re expansion of sales tax).
The political right is so easily coopted. Cancel culture is not a playbook you turn against your opponent. It's a speech suppressing ideological belief that you should have your life ruined because you said a thing on the internet. Why on earth would you adopt that belief?
@DesheShai It's even simpler than data quality concerns. LLMs produce likely outputs, not good outputs. Just because an idea is common doesn't mean an idea is good.
(this holds even if you disregard the fact that commonality of ideas itself is, as you say, guesswork based on flawed data)