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About the only power any of those jobs do have, when you get right down to it, is the power to decide what we're going to tackle right now. Controlling the day is pretty much the key to running something successfully — otherwise, you're just waiting around for something to happen that you can then react to.
Transcript: The Miserable Multitasking Multiverse
theankler.com
There don’t appear, today, to be any systemic moats in generative AI. As a first-order approximation, applications lack strong product differentiation because they use similar models; models face unclear long-term differentiation because they are trained on similar datasets with similar architectures; cloud providers lack deep technical differentiation because they run the same GPUs; and even the hardware companies manufacture their chips at the same fabs.
Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
And it’s because we need to solve the problem that blockchains are actually, originally, here to solve, which is provable scarcity and the double-spend problem. These “files” need to live somewhere in public state, in an environment of code that can make commitments, in order for their social meaning to make sense. “Web3” is that environment - made possible by publicly agreed-upon blockchain state - with enough group confidence in these “intermediary files” for social meaning.
Tokengated Commerce
notboring.co
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