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Obviously not all (tech) companies will prove to be successful.
Although, if we define success as “was acquired, investors / founders came out financial better off” then both absorbed and successful can be true while consolidation never was a concern.
Say government intervenes and prevents this merger, what’s the most likely outcome?
Company won’t exist in 6 minutes.
In all likelihood this company was spun up with the intention it would be purchased by a ”competitor.”
To steelman this position: yes, obviously. Everything is defined by a set of tradeoffs. Would you rather horses or cars? Wooden sailing ships or commercial aviation? Free speech, even of speech you don’t like or censorship? Atomic bombs of a brutal Japanese empire?
Many people seem to want to compare reality to a utopia that has never and can never exist.
We cannot have new technology and a reality where that technology cannot be used in detrimental ways.
We can pretend reality doesn’t exist, yet that will come with tradeoffs. Quite possibly that those who would do ill will front-run us.
You win good Sir.
On the other hand, if you have a contribution to the conversation, please, go right ahead and make it.
Why not?
The CEOs of these companies are largely just talking heads and generally interchangeable / hot-swappable with anyone willing to give it a shot.
The importance of CEOs is largely overstated.
What’s that now? Surely you’re joking.
But that’s not the problem anyway.
If all the US AI players agree to self-regulate, that doesn’t help anyone. It only hurts the US / West.
The point is to get the government onboard so it can advocate for a global agreement.
They 3D print a few components and assemble the drones on site.
All the other problems will exist.
A couple of drones can take this bit of plant out. Then you’re left wondering perhaps it would have been better to assemble the drones somewhere safer and ship them to where they’re needed.
And since this thing ships with all the parts, how do they imagine we’re fooled in to thinking it solves the obsolescence issue? Now you can assemble obsolete drones at the frontlines. What an improvement!
I suppose the next step then is to fit chemical rockets to give the attacking drones a chance to finish the last mine at a much higher speed.
Sooner or later, the West needs to wake up and realise that empathy for the offenders over empathy for the victims, hasn’t worked.
And that includes meth and heroin dealers.
Marijuana, meh, stupid drug anyway. But I know too many people who used weed long term and now have chronic psychosis, so yeah that ain’t great.
You don’t know that. None of the most recent EV sales are even ten years old yet.
We don’t know what the common failure modes are.
All of them didn’t used to be like that.
You’re wrong.
When you go out in to the world you’re learn that for yourself.
Amy group of humans who think they can run things ”collectively” is always immediately over run by those who know they can’t.
It’s proof of the opposite of your conjecture.
Anarchy always rapidly evolves in to government.
Whoever, or whichever group, performs the making, administering, and enforcement of rules, is the government.
What do you do when, say, the insulation on the motor’s windings disintegrates over night on a whole production run of thousands of cars.
Or the batteries turn out to a fail at some yet to be revealed number of charge cycles.
> My Hyundai Kona EV (64kWh) (2022 plate) was £18K
Completely fkn tone deaf.
That is unfortunate.
Are you going to bother to mention the millions who have been affected by imported drugs?
We’ve devolved from the proverbial slap on the wrist to the practice of a pat on the back and we’ll wishes.
Anything short of that is viewed as a a crime against humanity.