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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I was reading the comments from the article and some of these people are a bit incensed that Amazon was allowed to get the domain. But then, I like it when it affects people like that.  |
Agreed, although for a different reason.
Amazon's arrogance, I suspect, will eventually be the company's undoing. And this move, in the long run, will help make clearer to the general public how arrogant Amazon is.
Now, it's not that I want Amazon is prove its arrogance by hurting people's livelihood, as when they withhold advance purchase buttons. And I certainly hope they abandon plans for drones piloted by artificial intelligence, as these could kill people (for example, by downing power lines)*. But if Amazon wants to do something that's pretty harmless, like buying the .books domain, thus making visible its will to dominate the book trade, I like it.
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* Could expensive drones remotely piloted by skilled humans -- one human per drone -- be reasonably safe? Yes, but even Amazon couldn't afford the loses from that delivery model. Could drones piloted by artificial intelligence ever be reasonably safe? Sure, but not in the next decade or two.