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Thanks! No fixed plans for future development - it kind of depends on how much traction it gets. If it gets a lot of interest I might add a 'AI editor' that chooses images and write subtitles (or deletes boring ones which have been written by the article's author). But even if it gets little use besides myself, hosting costs are minimal so it will be around for a while :)
Waymo really needs to do an A/B test to demonstrate the safety of their cars: When you order a ridesharing car you randomly get assigned one of their driverless cars or an Uber with a human driver.
After a year see which group has the safest record. Simple.
My doctor was target of bitcoin extortionists. Now her system is so locked down and doesn’t interface with any other system. To transfer information to another system she prints it out and scans it into the new system
> If advertisers were getting results from their X ads, or possibly If you posted data that showed that ads on this platform were effective and produced results, you would be in an entirely different position.
> If your ads produce results, businesses would tell you they understand how difficult it is to completely eliminate hate on the platform.
> If they don't produce results, there is no reason for a big company to fuck around and find out that their ads showed up next to a hateful post.
> I can't tell you how many times I get Cheech ,(or is it Chong?) ads for CBD gummies. Shit I would never buy. ..
> On other platforms ads sometimes are eerily relevant to my interests.
> That never occurs on this platform
When asked if he ever advertised on X:
> Multiple of my portfolio companies have. And I always ask them to check. Without exception, all have said it doesn't give the same returns as other platforms
> we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer.
Waymo cars are safer, cleaner and cheaper than Uber, which has never made an operating profit and has abandoned its self-driving development.
Uber is stalled on the railway tracks while the freight train of self-driving tech hurtles towards it. How is it still worth $76 billion?
> Google has been worried about A.I.-powered competitors since OpenAI, a San Francisco start-up that is working with Microsoft, demonstrated a chatbot called ChatGPT in November. About two weeks later, Google created a task force in its search division to start building A.I. products…
Two weeks? That’s a pretty slow response to an existential threat
For those who doubt the old Twitter management could be so incompetent: These are the same people who never noticed they were showing me ads in a language I couldn't understand whenever I went on vacation.
I am director of an online bootcamp, and we tackle the cheating problem with a custom browser-based platform that records 3 video feeds during an exam: 1. the screen capture, 2. the webcam and 3. the video feed of the students phone placed so we can see the students desk. It makes it pretty hard to cheat, but does require lots of supervisor time getting all students set up correctly and then monitoring the video feeds
> He's still going to die within the usual human lifespan limits, just like the rest of us.
I'm not so sure.
For millennia people tried and failed to fly through the air like birds. In the late nineteenth century so many people had tried and failed, it seemed like a law of nature that humans were destined to remain earth-bound. Then suddenly, miraculously, we figured it out.
I think it will be the same with the 'usual human lifespan limit' of 120 years. At some point we will figure it out, and a group of humans will have a longevity distribution whose right tail extends to 150 years. Bryan Johnson may already be in that group.
The "living wage" housing costs for Manhattan are $22,852 [0] while there are quite a few 2-bedroom apartments listed for rent below $3,000 per month [1]
So 2 single people sharing a 2-bedroom apartment in Manhattan are not earning a "living wage"? I don't think that's how most people would define the term
I must be the only person who thinks Twitter is still worth at least $44 billion. Yes, Elon has made a few dumb mistakes. But they have been reversed pretty quickly without much long-term damage. It's the rate and scale of successful changes that count.
Advertisers will come back and Twitter will be hugely profitable.