And they are planning (well "planning" if you believe Elon) to start building their LLM over from scratch, which means they need a HUGE ass training data center, i.e. not a data center for inference to do so.
The first link is the FTC punishing Pornhub for something they did wrong. That is the parent commentator's main point (e.g. it can be regulated), which you keep ignoring.
> You wouldn't say we should stop age verifying people for online gambling just because there are "dark web" gambling websites.
False equivalencies. Gambling and porn have VERY different dynamics to them.
Do those people also have access to your travel schedule? Mine don't.
Maybe you're just not as globally social as me? I've lived in 5 different countries and have friends all over the world and in probably 20 different US states that I can name off the top of my head.
Do I have close friends that I regularly contact? Do I send them a message when I'm in town to see if they are there? Absolutely. But it's not mutually exclusive with a cohort of people I will link up with when I'm traveling.
> well enough to link up
It seems bizarre to me that you only limit yourself to these people. I regularly try to meet up with people I don't know super well but want to get them or their city better. Social media has absolutely helped facilitate this.
There are legitimate benefits. I just think its very easy to argue (which I agree) that the benefits don't necessarily outweigh the harm for most people.
I am very critical of social media but this is far too of a myopic take. There is a ton of real life social benefit to these platforms.
Simplest example - someone posts a picture/video of them in a city that I also am in and now I know they live there / traveling there and I can meet up with them.
Travis Kalanick had zero taxi experience and Brian Chesky had zero hospitality experience.
Now they created new models to existing paradigms, because I do tend to agree that founders that have verticalized experience tend to be far more successful (but perhaps arguably less 'disruptive')
> I’ve had sales people tell me to my face that they are the most important part of the business and the actual product or services is not that important.
Same here. This happened when I was 22 years old I didn't want to believe it.
BUT, I've seen far more shitty codebases win marketplaces with strong sales & marketing, than I've seen stellar codebases with shitty sales & marketplaces win marketplaces.
> but it took me 18 years to grow the user base , figure out entreprise sales strategy and exit.
The audience here has never wanted to admit that the codebase doesn't really matter. Now that codebases can be created in a weekend, people are opening their eyes to this sentiment - the hard part is the sales, the code is easy.
> And I didn't even say "profitable", I said "credible business model".
What's the difference? I would assume a business model that rewards profit (and therefore can sustain) would be considered credible...and not much else.
> would people stop doing PE even though it's profitable?
No but there would be a lot less PE dry powder available. To the parent's point - there is currently a trillion dollars in dry powder that is allocated to acquiring businesses. If that trillion dollars drys up then less businesses get acquired - it's that simple.
> As long as customers choose services based on quality.
If the market doesn't reward this then maybe quality isn't important to the customer. Could be price, location, availability, etc. - PE can absolutely create that value even when they roll up 70% of your local HVAC market.
Source? Otherwise this is pure speculation.