Some places can build infrastructure; others can't. But then some places want and others don't, and it's not in perfect correlation.

Can't, doesn't want to: New York, most of the US in general.
Can't but wants to: Los Angeles, Toronto, UK - look how hard they try to build those few lines.
Can, wants to: France, Spain, China, many others.
Can but doesn't want to: Germany, to some extent also Japan - this is seen in low costs per rider, i.e. lots of good value left on the table.

A while back @nytimes started charging for full access to the word game Spelling Bee. Previously I’d played it compulsively and, by not paying, reduced usage to a healthier ~10 min a day.

What Musk doesn’t seem to understand is that a rate limited Twitter for non-subscribers has the same pay-off.

I learned what artificial intelligence is by reading Douglas Hofstadter's work, and it's shaped a lot of my skepticism.

It makes sense that Hofstadter himself would have the same skepticism:

"it’s even worse when people who are employed to use their minds in creating and expressing new ideas are told, by their own institution, to step aside and let their minds take a back seat to mechanical systems whose behavior no one on Earth can explain"

h/t @Iris @fedeadolfi

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/generative-artificial-intelligence-universities/674473/