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histories··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Given that Gemini Pro is already the third best [0], I would expect Gemini Ultra to become the best soon.

[0] https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

histories··on Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
Eh, everyone likes different NS books (just look at all the replies).

I like Snow Crash and love Cryptonomicon, and I couldn't go past the first volume of the Baroque Cycle.

histories··on Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
"Kids need to get answers from humans who love them".

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/vdt11/i_am_neal_st...

histories··on Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
I sat there watching it without being distracted by my thoughts.

The thoughts were about the movie and its themes: evolution, violence, and yes even "how the f did they do this in the 60s"

histories··on Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
> I don't like/understand X, so of course no one actually likes/understands X
histories··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
I was drawing a comparison with Qobuz and the lossless tracks.

So maybe everyone has 1080p movies, but that streaming service has 4K.

histories··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
Some things they could compete on, just because I'm overthinking this:

- price (do I have to pay or do you offer free with ads?)

- content quality (do you have 4k movies?)

- organization (can I filter by director? Do you have a collection of all the Oscar-nominated movies from this year?)

- advanced controls (can I make a playlist of tv episodes? Maybe I want to watch a series in a different order than it was broadcasted)

- accessibility (do you have subtitles in this language?)

- extras (does this have a commentary? a trailer? the cut scenes?)

- more extras (can I pause and get the name of the actor that's on screen or the name of the song that's playing?)

histories··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
Spotify has the same songs as Apple Music, Deezer or whatever.

Everything should be everywhere. Let the services compete on something other than content.

Qobuz has the same songs as everyone else, but in higher quality.

Because when you compete on content, piracy always wins

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