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bjacobel
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.
bjacobel
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> 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.
bjacobel
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?
bjacobel
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Exactly such an app exists.

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163
bjacobel
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
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 can be conned into paying for OneDrive or Copilot subscriptions much more easily than enterprises can. On the other side, Windows Server is their lightweight version, and it's made for the only customer that Microsoft respects: ones that paid in full upfront.
bjacobel
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?
bjacobel
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.
bjacobel
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?
bjacobel
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.
bjacobel
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
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
bjacobel
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
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.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/vision_pro_bites_dog
bjacobel
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
> According to Grok

Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?
bjacobel
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
> 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.
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters"

No results.
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
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 from the Quest Marketplace.” Those are different claims.

2. Is it your assertion that all content offered on the Quest Marketplace is “the Metaverse?” Is the top paid application “Beat Saber” a Metaverse app?

3. The source of your statistics is Meta, a company famous for repeatedly falsifying platform usage metrics [1].

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/08/21/meta-accused-of-i...
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?
bjacobel
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?