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Why would this ever happen? Is it cheaper to destroy than sell at discount?

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Software “engineering”. Thank goodness bridges aren’t built with this level of rigor.

In any case I will take an invite if one has one because the community is solid.

without knowing the full extent of law suits initiated by apple this cherry picked set means nothing. a little over a dozen lawsuits you mentioned in a 40 year period. I mean so what, lol.

and if your one beefy server goes down? oh, now you want a replica. so much for one beefy machine.

Looks to still be over a trillion market cap.

Is it interesting? They want to be rich.

What a weird strawman

As opposed to what though? Again, I assert violence is inevitable.

There is nothing to disagree on, i am talking about net operating profit margins. It is math.

What you are saying is again irrelevant. It is not about justification. Is about net margins…

It is honorable but ultimately hasn’t democracy spoken wrt the issues mentioned in the post?

For better or worse millions of Americans voted for the guy doing the deportations.

I also find it difficult to reconcile not using AI for weapons. If war is inevitable AI presumably would at least ensure you are on target.

Why is the world cup so infrequent anyway? I assume to match olympics?

Good models need a lot of data. Can you really be accurate with what, 30 data points, in which the team composition is basically reset each time?

The point is if you are paying for software but not increasing your revenue by your margin you are lowering it even if you are increasing profit in absolute terms.

What you are mentioning with salaries is not relevant.

No, because costco has a 3% margin. A cart of stuff at costco costing 247 will yield 240 to various operating costs, and roughly $7 actually to costco.

If you have a lemonade stand you might sell a cup for $1, but overall after paying yourself and for the cups, lemons, etc you might only get 3 cents each cup.

For costco revenue equals sales and membership.

> but it's not fundamentally different

It is. We are talking about LLMs here.

Usefulness aside, I see little evidence AI is making money (profit, not revenue) for any firm whose profit doesn't come from the AI itself or the infrastructure, including supply chain. I'd love to hear a counterexample. One such example would be of a hypothetical company that does translations for payment, and with AI they now are making more profit because they use AI to do the translation rather than pay a translator.

Duolingo is such a company you would expect AI to help a lot. Surely AI could allow it to cut costs substantially. And yet, in the past year its stock is down 70% and in Q1 2026 profit has not seemed to increase compared to Q4 2025. In fact, other than Q3 of last year which had some tax shenanigans, their profit is relatively flat. Not a great look given that AI is highly disruptive to their product.

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AI is actually insidious. Suppose you're in a competitive industry like Costco making 3% (net profit) margin. Suppose the average costco employee makes 60K. Then you come in and think it would be great to have an AI agent lets every employee ask questions of inventory to help customers. Surely if employees could use AI that could somehow make more money for Costco. Hypothetically let's say this ends up costing about the same as the basic subscription in terms of tokens. $20/employee/month Can't be that bad right?

$240 ÷ 0.03 = $8,000 (in other words, generate over 10% of their own salary in marginal additional net profit every year). Is Costco really going to generate 8K more per employee? Nope. And yet, firms like Costco who choose AI effectively just lower their own profit margins.

How likely is it to be a certain demographic given certain stats? Pretty much says it all.

The race factor is irrelevant in practice. Even more so when you look at literature indicating that your success is actually more predictive from high school success than college attendance.

In other words, if you get into Stanford you will likely succeed even if you don’t go.

Another stupid comment. What do you think about the death penalty?

If you happen to be the one dying for no reason would you consider that just a trivial unfortunate edge case?

Educate yourself:

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/policy/innocence

Every day I am happy many here are techies and not politicians.

legality of the datacenters aside, I wonder why countries don't at least demand that they're totally carbon neutral or free. it's possible today. it's not like it's sci-fi.

> It's also trivially easy to not end up in involuntary servitude.

Stupid people always say nonsense like this as if no person in prison is innocent.

Easy, make non college folks worse off.

Im curious share the link - i cannot reproduce. Gemini 3.5 flash gets it. For those curious on ios you can record your screen using control center

Edit: interestingly gpt5.6 needed a slightly longer video and got it too

I find this solid but think attestation is the end game sadly.

This is not resistant to false positives, and is expensive all things considered.

This ghost font thing is a pretty solid trick

SMH.

Maybe AI will take over after all, just not due to the reasons we think.

Example?

Lol wait for enforcement before declaring victory

You believe this based off what?

Good post, it perfectly captures the problem with AI. Here we have a claim that the double cover conjecture has a proof. Verified by… no one per the link.

Now imagine this proof is wrong. How would you know? Ok, think about the process in which you determine the correctness - why not do that initially?

And there it is. The problem laid bare. Ironically it reduces to the P and NP one.

Christ sake, really? I dont want to say it since it is against the rules but common…