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prima-facie • today at 11:25 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Google is basically the incarnation of the Immortal Snail meme. OpenAI and Anthropic get millions of USD and are made immortal. But Google is the snail, constantly chasing them, slowly, day and night, relentlessly.

> Immortal Snail, also known as the Snail Assassin, refers to a hypothetical scenario in which a person is given millions of dollars and made immortal in exchange for being hunted down by a snail with a fatal touch for the rest of their existence.


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wren6991 • today at 2:12 PM

DeepSeek is the immortal whale

tim333 • today at 1:00 PM

Google would be quite a large snail.

m3kw9 • today at 7:01 PM

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