If only we had some kind of voting system that could uplift the good stuff...one can only dream...

The only legal check for monopoly corporations is regulation/taxation. That doesn’t work cross border. Especially when the other side has nationalised and artificially props the monopoly.

The solution then is removing the product from market till local competition takes its place.

Now think about how often the patent system has stifled and stalled and delayed advancement for decades per innovation at a time.

Where would we be if patents never existed?

Who knows? If we’d never moved on from trade secrets to patents, we might be a hundred years behind.

Is that really the case in the last few years/decades?

My understanding is that any company that can (read: has enough money for good lawyers), will prefer to use trade secrets for a combination of reasons, a big one being that competitors cannot use that technology after 10 years/when the patent expires.

Admittedly this was from my entrepreneurship classes in a European uni, so I'm not sure how it is in different places in the world.

Patents in the US are 20 years. Given how short sighted modern companies are, I can’t imagine anyone at any large company is even planning for something 20 years in the future, much less placing much value in an outcome that far out.

To be fair, Google has a patent on the transformer architecture. Their page rank patent monopoly probably helped fund the R&D.

They also had a patent on map/reduce.

Truer than even you dare to admit.

How many useless living humans do you know? They go somewhere. Something happens to them. Whatever it is it’s about to happen to 30% of the population.

What’s the opposite of survivor bias?

It takes a profound lack of empathy to refer to your neighbors as "useless living humans"

Furthermore, it's usually just plain dangerous.

It is meant in the capitalist sense. Your horror at the statement is the point.

Capitalism relies on the circulation of capital. Consumers are an anomaly.

Citation: nvidia/openai circular loans network.

> How many useless living humans do you know?

Oh, I can think of about 77 million right off the top of my head.

“Don’t weigh yourself every day, do weigh yourself every week.”

First thing: open a notepad window and brain dump your todo list. The rest is moo.

There will come a day soon where “hello world” will be typed by sentient hands for the last time.

Selling unique works is harder due to sentimentality. Easier to sell replicated works, like digital music.

100% an AI wrote this. Possibly specifically to get to the top spot on HN.

Those short sentences are the most obvious clue. It’s too well written to be human.

The guy kind of talks like that and looks human https://youtu.be/ccNMwZV3jlM

The thought process also seems a little coherent for an LLM although maybe they are getting better as the great Tuesday approaches?