Looking at that number made me think that it can’t be right unless the company has many customers (much more than Canada’s population) for it to make sense.
Looked it up, and they have 52 million customers.
So they make sooo much money from 52 million people that they have this amount to spare that would cover 40 million.
Yeah, holy shit.
Edit:
Honestly, they didn’t even lose that much:
So I guess there is a use case for AI,
It’s almost like out of a movie, the technology can only be used to benefit evil.
Am Canadian, I see 78k so yes
What is not obvious is whether this was premeditated or did he just get too excited and said fuck it.
Or worse, was it just muscle memory?
Imo the rich part matters too
Who’s the pig? I feel like I need more context
Cause maybe they assume scientists are hyping things up like VCs for AI.
In a dishonest world, the honest would be mistrusted more.
Oh I 100% agree that feudalism is the end goal of capitalism, I actually think the US is getting too unstable for that. Imo civil war is closer than full on dictatorship, or at least I hope so.
I mean, yeah, most cautionary tales have common themes.
In most terrible situations, you’ll often find tyranny in some shape or form.
I’m not saying Orwell is only about communism, I’m actually agreeing that Orwell’s book was something rather specific that doesn’t apply 100% to today.
Today’s situation is shaping to be more like the Wild West where anything goes as long as your rich enough instead of a single omnipresent entity having full control.
It was funny in the mid 2000s cause we didn’t appreciate how hard it is to maintain a free encyclopedia. And even then it was only funny for certain pages.