Posts by JamPacked

OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?

On Android, Google Assistant was the inferior replacement for Google Now. I can't wait for the inferior replacement for Google Assistant! Top notch company

OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining

Re: Hi ! We want to steal everything...

There are defensible arguments for the enforcement of an intellectual property regime, but this one is incoherent. Intellectual property is also “automatically” devalued in this way when I buy a competitor's product instead. Or when a copyright expires. Or when I don't make a purchase. Or when I haggle. The specific harm you're alleging here is “possibly lowering the demand curve for a product.”

Simply lowering a demand curve is not a wrongful injury against the entire class of license holders. Give me a break. And even with regard to the IP holder, the alleged harm in any individual case rests on a wild assumption that the act of piracy would've been a purchase. “Not purchasing something” does not create a different demand curve than “not purchasing something”.

> Also, and again, because of rules of supply and demand, tangible objects don't have an intrinsic value either....

Non-rivalrous vs rivalrous goods is a real distinction that should be reflected in good policy, actually. The harm done to a shop owner by stealing a candy bar is a bad analogy for the harm done to societal creativity by IP not being compensated. The Internet Archive's digital library is not analogous to an organized ring of thieves going around the country and stealing merchandise from bookstores. This absurdity is why civilized countries focus on IP infringement that generates revenue (such as OpenAI) rather than punishing individual acts of quote unquote “theft” of non-rivalrous goods as if they're candy bars.

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

If the only alternative cross platform browser engine to Google's is annihilated in a doomed & fruitless attempt to reduce Google's monopoly position elsewhere, I think that's bad.

Re: Harmful

Their market share is so low that their demise would have no impact, but the default in their search bar has a profound impact on the overall market for internet search. This is very logical!

“It's really not, if you look at the expense sheets of Mozilla. What costs them the most is not 'maintaining the browser', but all the executive pays.”

Did *you* look at the expense sheets you linked downthread? The biggest line item by far is “software development” at $260M. Lmao.