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After like a 10yr haitus, I'm blogging again. You can get new posts via Substack: thegreatrace.substack.com. All posts are free, I'm just using Substack to make distribution easier. Hope you join me there.
Gabriel Weinberg
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Gabriel Weinberg
@yegg
Founder, DuckDuckGo. Co-author, Traction. Co-author, Super Thinking. Writing personally at gabrielweinberg.com. Tweets auto-delete via TweetDelete.
- 🆕✍️ AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time. All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.
- My statement on the US v Google remedies (quoted). Tl;dr 👎 for consumers. Monopoly business continues as usual for Google.A statement from our CEO on the US v Google remedies: "We do not believe the remedies ordered by the court will force the changes necessary to adequately address Google’s illegal behavior. Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors,
- 🆕 post: States should be allowed to regulate AI because realistically Congress won't—Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.
- 🆕✍️ On reddit, roughly 500 views = 1 click
- 🆕✍️ Progress isn't automatic: It takes considerable effort, education, organization, and money Blog post link:
- New post. Rule #2: There are always underlying assumptions.
- 🆕 Post gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-key-to-i… The key to increasing standard of living is increasing labor productivity: Unpacking this counterintuitive conclusion
- 🆕 Post gabrielweinberg.com/p/9-ways-duckd… 9 ways DuckDuckGo's Search Assist Differs from Google’s AI Overviews: Seeking better UX for AI-assisted search answers at DuckDuckGo
- New post: U.S. AI-labor protests could eventually resemble the French Yellow-Vest protests
- 🆕✍️ Is consumer AI heading for a duopoly? gabrielweinberg.com/p/consumer-ai-…
- 🆕 post: Most chatbot users miss this key setting, so we moved it up front.
- 🆕✍️ A U.S.-China tech tie is a big win for China because of its population advantage
