Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
DARPA deliberately funds projects it knows will not be completed, betting on valuable spinoff technologies — like a new carbon fiber material — emerging from failed primary goals.
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Even when the government inadvertently collects data on an American citizen, there are supposed to be protections: minimization procedures that flag and purge the data. In practice, Bill says, the process moves with suspicious lethargy — slow enough to function more as a surveillance retention mechanism than a safeguard [1] — Bill Thompson "When surveillance accidentally captures an American citizen, a 'minimization' process is supposed to delete it. But in Bill Thompson's expe…" 07:44 . He notes that figures like Rand Paul are aware of and fighting these abuses, but changing the government is like trying to steer a battleship. The deeper structural problem, Chris observes, is that technology always outpaces legislation: by the time lawmakers understand a new technology well enough to regulate it, the engineers have moved three generations ahead. The talent to understand emerging technology will always sit on the side of those building it, leaving regulators perpetually behind.
Bhanu and his team built approximately 50 free tools to attract search traffic, each linked back to SiteGPT.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu can now create a new free marketing tool in less than 5 minutes by referencing existing tools.
Bhanu filters Ahrefs keyword results to show only those with a keyword difficulty below 10, making them realistic ranking targets for any decent website.
Bhanu sets a minimum search volume of 1,000 monthly searches when selecting keywords to target with free tools.
PropGPT averaged 20 downloads per day right after launching on the App Store through influencer marketing.
Eyal and Yali shut down all marketing and spent 4 months completely rebuilding PropGPT from scratch.
PropGPT has accumulated over 40,000 total downloads since launch.
PropGPT's large language model (AI) operating costs are just $20 per month, and the cost is continually falling.
Ad-based monetization works well for game apps where users spend extended time in-session, as seen with Grid and Wordle.
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