Embrace: You’re selling lemonade at your stand. One day, another kid in the street (“Kid B”) starts his own lemonade stand as well. Noticing his operation, you decide to become friends with him and share your lemonade recipes with him, so you both can make tasty lemonade together.
Extend: As you continue to share more insights and tips about your business, Kid B starts implementing your strategies. His lemonade stand begins to seem a lot like yours. You suggest adding exciting new features to the lemonade stands, like special umbrellas, or a particular secret ingredient that only you know. Since Kid B doesn’t know any better, he relies on your inputs and makes these changes.
Extinguish: Now, both lemonade stands are almost identical. You’ve influenced Kid B’s business heavily, and it’s become deeply dependent on your ideas. At this stage, you make a move that Kid B can’t match. Maybe you start selling a unique lemonade flavor that only you can make, or setup a cool sign that Kid B can’t afford. Suddenly, customers start to ignore Kid B’s stand and flock to yours, because yours has something extra or special. Eventually, Kid B’s stand can’t compete, and he has to close up his lemonade stand.
This is a simplified example of how “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” can work.
(Verse 1)
Is this just a concept, or is this strategy keen?
Caught in a big tech, no escape from the scheme,
Open your eyes, look up to the screens and see,
“E-E-E,” that’s the name, it’s no mystery.
(Chorus)
Embrace, extend, extinguish,
A technique they call distinguished,
But it’s really quite extinguished,
To the losers, it’s a nightmare, to the winners, it’s a dream.
(Verse 2)
Give a little glance, to a world full of code,
In the corporate stance, see how their actions flowed,
Embrace, extend, and extinguish,
From small tech innovations to those giant-sized wishes.
(Chorus)
Embrace, extend, extinguishing the light,
Innovation in the shadow, yet claiming it’s right,
The strategy’s plain, as day or night,
It’s the landscape of tech, evoking quite a fight.
(Bridge)
Embrace, welcoming tech with a smile,
Beneath that guise, there’s something quite vile.
Extend, broadening the reach oh so wide,
Programming, developing, can’t escape the tide.
(Chorus)
Extinguish, the crown of this plan,
Corporate giants ruling the tech span.
From the mom and pop tech, to the coder’s free hand,
It’s all part of the game, in the corporate techland.
(Outro)
So you see, E-E-E, it’s more than it seems,
A deadly trio, disrupting the dreams,
Control over technology downstream,
Wake up from the lullaby, it’s time to intervene.
This is both amazing and frightening at the same time. I can’t sing this to the tune but that might just be my own lack of musical talent. But less than a minute for it to come up with a propaganda song. I like the message, but probably just need to add a couple words to the prompt to get it to spit out the opposite.
Oh thanks, I was wondering why it wasn’t responding, thought I might have broken it. Normally I just pick the first one in the auto complete but I guess I need to pay more attention.
Interesting question! Given the context, we could consider “Monopolization” as the 4th horseman. It represents the final stage in which a company dominates a market, making it difficult for other businesses to compete. This stage is often associated with stifling innovation, controlling prices, and negatively impacting consumers’ choices.
Sure, think of it like this:
Embrace: You’re selling lemonade at your stand. One day, another kid in the street (“Kid B”) starts his own lemonade stand as well. Noticing his operation, you decide to become friends with him and share your lemonade recipes with him, so you both can make tasty lemonade together.
Extend: As you continue to share more insights and tips about your business, Kid B starts implementing your strategies. His lemonade stand begins to seem a lot like yours. You suggest adding exciting new features to the lemonade stands, like special umbrellas, or a particular secret ingredient that only you know. Since Kid B doesn’t know any better, he relies on your inputs and makes these changes.
Extinguish: Now, both lemonade stands are almost identical. You’ve influenced Kid B’s business heavily, and it’s become deeply dependent on your ideas. At this stage, you make a move that Kid B can’t match. Maybe you start selling a unique lemonade flavor that only you can make, or setup a cool sign that Kid B can’t afford. Suddenly, customers start to ignore Kid B’s stand and flock to yours, because yours has something extra or special. Eventually, Kid B’s stand can’t compete, and he has to close up his lemonade stand.
This is a simplified example of how “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” can work.
Aw, why did you have to make me the bad guy.
Everybody knows AI is evil.
@[email protected] Please explain embrace, extend, extinguish in the format of a song set to the tune of bohemian rapsody.
(Verse 1) Is this just a concept, or is this strategy keen? Caught in a big tech, no escape from the scheme, Open your eyes, look up to the screens and see, “E-E-E,” that’s the name, it’s no mystery.
(Chorus) Embrace, extend, extinguish, A technique they call distinguished, But it’s really quite extinguished, To the losers, it’s a nightmare, to the winners, it’s a dream.
(Verse 2) Give a little glance, to a world full of code, In the corporate stance, see how their actions flowed, Embrace, extend, and extinguish, From small tech innovations to those giant-sized wishes.
(Chorus) Embrace, extend, extinguishing the light, Innovation in the shadow, yet claiming it’s right, The strategy’s plain, as day or night, It’s the landscape of tech, evoking quite a fight.
(Bridge) Embrace, welcoming tech with a smile, Beneath that guise, there’s something quite vile. Extend, broadening the reach oh so wide, Programming, developing, can’t escape the tide.
(Chorus) Extinguish, the crown of this plan, Corporate giants ruling the tech span. From the mom and pop tech, to the coder’s free hand, It’s all part of the game, in the corporate techland.
(Outro) So you see, E-E-E, it’s more than it seems, A deadly trio, disrupting the dreams, Control over technology downstream, Wake up from the lullaby, it’s time to intervene.
Holy fuck what have we done.
This is both amazing and frightening at the same time. I can’t sing this to the tune but that might just be my own lack of musical talent. But less than a minute for it to come up with a propaganda song. I like the message, but probably just need to add a couple words to the prompt to get it to spit out the opposite.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
@[email protected] if embrace, extend, and extinguish were 3 of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, who would you say would be the 4th?
It’s @lemmings.world buddy
Oh thanks, I was wondering why it wasn’t responding, thought I might have broken it. Normally I just pick the first one in the auto complete but I guess I need to pay more attention.
@[email protected] if embrace, extend, and extinguish were 3 of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, who would you say would be the 4th?
Interesting question! Given the context, we could consider “Monopolization” as the 4th horseman. It represents the final stage in which a company dominates a market, making it difficult for other businesses to compete. This stage is often associated with stifling innovation, controlling prices, and negatively impacting consumers’ choices.
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