@wollman it's not just that though. mastadon has a bunch of specific ideas about things, which could maybe even be good, but they make the product worse.
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What's blowing me away about this Google AI search thing is that they 100% red-teamed this internally, found a bunch of bullshit like we're finding, and somebody decided to ship it anyway.
@mattmay i think this is a feature design problem -- somebody said, let's build an AI that overviews the google results you get, and nobody stopped to think why that was a bad idea. even once they saw it. lol. and, yet, that's not even quite true -- they do block some stuff, so they knew it was a problem, but shipped it anyway. for what it's worth, they could solve this with design, "the internet says… " would be a good start. haha
i talked to a friend who was like, "i have a chip startup", and since it's pittsburgh i had to confirm whether silicon or potato. but, it was silicon. and, i was like, you can just like do that? i'm very software silo'd.
@wollman@marcua that sounds like a great opportunity! people will endlessly compete and eventually tire on GPUs, but people are gonna need potato chips forever!
imma read so fast and so much that the digital library thinks i'm a bot! (which really isn't that much, it's detection for this has really low precision)
I don’t glory in “no sleep til dub dub,” but also, for some of us, it’s definitely real. The amount of work at this time of year is truly staggering. It’s one of the things that brought me back to this company. It reminds me of putting on a show (and I guess in some ways it is)…everyone is coming together to create something bigger than the sum of us. It’s exiting! And exhausting! 💜
Well, this will be an interesting way to throw away money. :-) I decided to invest (a small amount) in kagi.com - the search engine I've been using since last year.
I remain very happy having switched, but I still !g (have it direct to google) for geo-related queries, something I hope they'll improve upon in the longer term. I love that I can downrank specific sites like pinterest or geeksforgeeks that annoy the hell out of me.
Most early-stage investments lose, but I'm intrigued to watch. 🤓
@dave_andersen but, they'd have to grow really big right? i feel like i heard that one reason why macs had so many fewer viruses traditionally is because they were second in the market and so who would bother! (and of course much more secure better products ;P)