• zeppo
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    4 days ago

    Thus transferring their money to openAI, Anthropic etc? How does that help?

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      4 days ago

      those companies arent profitable either and they have same problems in which it costs them more to run their products than they are currently charging people to use it.

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        4 days ago

        What do you mean by either? Walmart and Amazon make tens of billions in profit a year if not a quarter.

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            3 days ago

            Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon’s money on AI. And you said “those companies aren’t profitable either” which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that “Walmart and Amazon aren’t profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t profitable either”. So what are you talking about? What does “either” mean?

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                1 day ago

                okay, thanks for clarifying. Sorry about having to be kind of pedantic.

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                  22 hours ago

                  oh haha no worries here. I’m often guilty of the same. i don’t remember but probably had a sleepy brain when I wrote the original comment

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      More companies with less money is better than a few companies with all the money.

      Ultimately distributed power has to be more democratic, and centralized power has to be more fascistic.

      That’s part of why governments having large distributed bureaucracies each with their own authority and independent ability to intervene is better than say; a single executive office/president controlling everything directly.

      Distribution also leads to stability though (making it harder to challenge the status quo), so it’s a double edged sword.