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Jyaif
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- The tricky part is not doing the capability-based OS, it's getting adoption.
Linux is good enough, so a slightly better OS is not going to cut it.
- I agree with the assessment that Apple has by far the best platform to ship features.
That being said, if people spend all their time interacting with LLMs for nearly everything, which is the direction we seem to be going in, what locks them in the Apple ecosystem?
- > If you [..] do not fully understand the nuances and limitations of SQLite DO NOT USE IT.
So, what are the limitations compared to Postgres?
- I would say that customer diversity may be a marker of past resilience, and likely results in moat.
Customer diversity says nothing about current or future resilience.
- > in this case justifiably so
Oh please. What LLMs are doing now was complete and utter science fiction just 10 years ago (2015).
- > Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost?
RAM uses power.
- As soon as a platform gives control to the fullscreen, harmful apps are possible.
See for example Apple detecting if a user is typing on a keyboard while in a fullscreen website, and then blocking the website. Yes it's as crazy as it's sounds.
- They have thousands of highly paid employees working on open source; they are spending at least 1 billion per year.
- They want to profit from the IPO of OpenAI. Private investors get a free 20% - 30% gain not available to the retail investors.
- > They also mastered the world of DC lobbying, successfully outmaneuvering Boeing and Lockheed’s attempts to use anti-trust regulations to shut the European entrant out of the US market.
No amount of engineering can compete with good old bribes.
- > For people who introduced themselves to tech with snap as one of their first apps, its the most intuitive thing ever
By definition, the first app someone uses will be from their POV the most intuitive app ever. It will also be the least intuitive app ever.
- Mathematically speaking, random actions can't be worse than actively bad actions.
- Shrinking industries can still generate profit, and can still give out dividends.
- > In France it is reported that retirees now have higher (average?) incomes than workers
It may not be exactly true, but it's close to be true, and then like you said the workers have way more expenses (rent, children).
I will point out that in the 90s we in France already knew that the retirement system was unsustainable. It is quite obvious if you look for 2 seconds at the population pyramid :-)
Generations of politicians tried and failed to do something about it, thanks to the left (and sometimes extreme right wing) saying that there was enough money and we just need to tax the rich more.
- > badly in multiple previous launches of ML-based products
Which ML-based products?
> It was convenient for Google that OpenAI acted as a first mover
That sounds like something execs would say to fend of critics. "We are #2 in AI, and that's all part of the plan"
I don't think that's such a great signal: people were viciously attacking NFTs.