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More likely it will never be profitable because her great grandparents didn't enter the lemonade and beverages market seriously enough. So Coke Cola Europe rules the industry.

...actually looking into it, Pepsi owns 10% of the market, and Coke owns 5%... There's still some room for her if she has the right angle. She should probably try to disrupt the market somehow. Maybe make soda as a drug delivery system? She can piggy back on media hype like "Could this soda cure your diabetes?" Or perhaps custom targetted ads printed on cans? Maybe made-to-order taste sensation?

Tell her to get a degree in marketing and raise a billion dollars in VC money, she might have a chance still.

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Jury nullification

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Knowing how to kill yourself won't increase or decrease the outcome of depression, because that knowledge isn't driving the depression. The problem is the depression, its causes, and its severity (jumping off tall place, or running into traffic isn't difficult to figure out). Knowing methodologies is of marginal influence to how depressed the person is. Severity of the condition is the primary factor to the outcome.

Also, fuck no I don't support the "Rational Altruist" or the "Effective Altruism" movements because I don't get caught up in shitty ass word games and poorly crafted "thought experiments".

Those people are idiots. Those groups are full of really smart dumb people.

Also "Rationalism" in general has a fraught history, from Ayn Rand to Economic Rationalism. People are better off acknowledging that they're not always rational and shouldn't seek to be.

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AI = Fascism

I don't really get what they're going to do with all those data centers, the current models suck as far as output quality and returns on training new ones are diminishing (that's part of the technology, you can't average the internet EVEN MORE and to get a 'better' result)...

...so the best models seem to have been trained well before the majority of data centers were finished and running. Hell the technology isn't that old.

So why all the datacenters? Models can be run on your PC (no connection required)... there's no need for data centers apart from spending whilst the bubble is high.

It must be part of the scam. Stock value bolstered by brick and mortar realestate and the hopes of working for the surveillance state.

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"Information hazard" is a term from the Rational Altruist community that many wealthy people in the AI industry have paid attention to, as well as people like Sam Bankmanfried and at least one cult (the zizians). Despite a lack of reasonable evidense/logic to their claims.

Thus using the term seriously is an information hazard, in that it leads others to not take you seriously.

Fucking "rationalists" and their stupid claim that knowing things is harmful. Also, most lawyers aren't asking about jury nullification, because people who hear that term are probably gonna look it up (giving them a chance to do it)... This isn't a movie.