It’s free as a loss leader. The trick is to upsell later. Unfortunately for OpenAI there are plenty of competitors with fungible products, so it might be hard to pull a classic monopoly rug-pull.
Their CEO is a loon for one thing.
But also the concept of spying is generally unsavory. Nobody wants to be tracked. Palantir has proven that they have no ethical framework for who they work with. Essentially they fill a mercenary role in modern society. Nobody really trusts mercenaries, for obvious reasons.
None of the reasons you’ve given apply to everybody. They do apply to illegal migrants, protestors, and violent criminals though - and others that also cause similar societal problems and disruption. Once again HN - like so many other online meeting spaces - takes for granted that the libertarian and extreme ‘human and civil rights’ tech bro ethos is invariably shared by everybody else. It is not.
Such a sad worldview. Unfortunately thinking like that is self-fulfilling. By building weapons you encourage everyone else to build weapons, and everyone is poorer in the end.
Some silly aspect of human nature I guess. I notice it's worse in men on average.
What's your suggested alternative? This is exactly kind of shallow virtue signalling I was pointing at. While you make dismissive remarks like this, your government or USA does the dirty work required to keep stability.
Americans often confuse socialsim for handing out money freely and letting people commit crimes without going to jail, both the left and right, so its this wierd catch 22 going on or something
The actual problem is how do we give people things that are way more expensive than those people will ever be able to cover themselves?
The answer is to make someone else pay for it. But man, have you ever gone to dinner with your large tech salary and been advised you have a moral obligation to cover 80% of the table's bill, and then be demonized for scrutinizing what people ordered?
Socialism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the government is a bottomless money pit fed by evil people with infinite money harvested from captive forced labor.
Capitalism is great when you can get yourself to believe that the lives of people who cannot carry (or did not carry) their weight don't matter.
I think you’re a magnitude or two off in the current state of wealth inequality. It’s more like people are asking you with a 400k/yr salary to pitch in to buy candy bars and you’re upset someone picked out a king size for fifty cents more.
Socialist policies would be decidedly less popular if people knew that most of the money to fund them would come from middle and upper middle class earners.
While those people as individuals have nowhere near "billionaire" money, they as a contingent have the most wealth.
While the "1% have more money than the bottom 50%" is true, they have less than half the money of the 70%-95%. America's cash cow is in the suburbs, not the Hamptons. Kinda forbidden knowledge to know that.
Insane binary choice fallacy. The choices are more akin to centralised control or free-ish markets. We see from experience how centralised control has completely butchered healthcare, both in the US and also my country of Canada. It's time to drop the insane authoritarian control and let people freely chose their own destiny, so to speak.
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