Actually, I feel like this would potentially lower the value of investments in data centers even further, outsourcing workloads to ‘folding@home-but-with-a-microsoft-name’.

Further, if this can be done by corporate groups, it wouldn’t be hard to do it as a community project either: get credits when your hardware works on other people’s workloads - and vice-versa = cheap/free LLM queries at home using open-weight models on everyone’s hardware, whenever you need it.

Yes, that’s called vertical integration, and its when companies own their suppliers. It’s one of the exact examples I gave, and I don’t really understand how you can’t see that it’s the opposite of your claim that ‘suppliers often invest in their big buyers’.

I’m trying to think of anywhere in the non-West that has guillotines or public executions, that I’d want to emulate as a good policy model.

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Nope, nowhere comes to mind.

Not as a general rule, no. Not at all.

Businesses make profit selling to customers. Large customers typically give less profit as they negotiate cheaper contracts, at the benefit of being a reliable buyer. Investing the profit back into them makes little sense.

Do you see farmers invest in the supermarket chains that buy their produce? Mining companies investing in Chinese ore smelters? Battery producers investing in major electronics companies? Pottery companies invest in garden center chains?

Its really quite uncommon for companies to directly invest in their large customers.

Whats seen more typically is the reverse: big customers investing in their major suppliers, often to negotiate better pricing agreements or to guarantee supply contracts for their critical supply chain items.

The AI ouroborous is a very artificial industry structure - its just a bottomless moneypit that’s doing its best to hide that fact as long as possible, "come 2030 it’ll be ultra profitable bro, trust. In the meantime we’ll need the GDP of a large nation every year ty’.

You’re completely right. I wrote this pretty late at night.

I’ll leave it though, so that your comment can add context.

It will also position the AI as a wise mentor to millions of kids, which is terrible when you consider its owned by billionaire sociopaths. They will use this trust.

Well I was kinda wondering what the difference is tbh. Laxative is laxative, surely.

It’s wild to me as a non-American that you still have places named after these people and statues in their honor.

There are no statues of Nazi generals in Germany, nor places that celebrate leading members of the Reich.

I don’t agree that ‘rat poison is necessary’. That would mean by extension that it’s necessary to kill all the owls and birds that feed on poisoned rats - a real and current problem due to overuse of rat poison.

There are other effective means of rat control - poisoning is just the cheapest and easiest.

They’ll cozy up to the Dems. It’s not rocket science. All the corporations pay both parties to further their interests, due to the most idiotic ruling in history: citizens united, which effectively decided that legally in the US, money = speech.

Unfortunately in addition, they took all the money for like three tech booms and slammed it all into that one cycle because the US economy was very stagnant and it seemed like their only move that made line go up. Whole thing has been exhausting.

I’m tired, boss.

I don’t understand why people like AppleTV so much, we have one too.

It had the worst interface by far of any streaming or video player we use. Its like Apple went out of their way to make it unintuitive.

Same, that good will has evaporated though as he’s continued to demonstrate poor decision-making and social skills. Bad traits for a business leader.

I have a lifetime Simplelogin account because I love that service… It’s now part of proton (as they bought it), so I think I’m stuck.

That’s fucking gross, but seeing as its Actiblizzard its hard to be shocked.

Yeah, the mechanism discussed in this paper is via Facebook ‘share’ content frames and cookies, not relevant for anyone who disables JavaScript via NoScript or blocks third-party cookies.

Which I’m guessing based on past comments is 80%+ of Lemmy users. Including me.

Well… not me specifically, they’re not.

I can’t wait to see what Elon can do for Tesla with the extra budget from rolling it into SpaceX.

Imagine how many amazing new promises and forecasts can be made and broken.

Trump didn’t get cut in on the deal, every mafioso knows that’s not how you do business in a crime syndicate.

She’s looking in two directions at once, so I’m leaning lizard people.

Fingerprints have been ‘the new cookies’ for like 20 years, so I think it’s starting to stretch the definition of ‘new’.