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bjacobel
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About bjacobel
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Comment #49204984
The best AI products have a userbase of one. The average AI product has a userbase of zero.
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Comment #49196002
Is there a need ? Or a want ?
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Comment #49139673
People? Or corporations?
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Comment #48038744
There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.
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Comment #47905533
> ChatGPT has a billion users And their company's leadership is famous for compulsively lying. Pardon me if I suspect they might be arriving at that number using creative math.
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Comment #47670089
Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?
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Comment #47530312
Exactly such an app exists. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163
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Comment #47502552
This already exists, but you have the markets backwards. Microsoft wants to force the cruft onto everyday users; it subsidizes the cost of the operating system license. Home users …
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Comment #47138758
What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?
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Comment #46969823
> Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.
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Comment #46790208
What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?
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Comment #46121706
Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.
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Comment #45592420
US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1% when you take out NVIDIA and OpenAI sending the same $100 billion back and forth to each other
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Comment #45592370
They massively over-estimated demand [1] and produced tens if not hundreds of thousands of units that didn't sell. This is them trying to liquidate their inventory of components. […
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Comment #45462337
> According to Grok Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?
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Comment #45449434
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...
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Comment #45377683
Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.
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Comment #45211455
There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".
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Comment #45211331
> Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad! I've found a much easier solution to this problem.
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Comment #45181447
Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters" No results.
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Comment #45171691
1. Those are revenue statistics. I am asking for you to provide data to support the claim “users are finding utility from the Metaverse”, not the claim “Meta is generating revenue …
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Comment #45169938
Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?
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Comment #45167750
Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?
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Comment #44659035
It’s clearly written by AI.
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Comment #41642953
Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"