etempleton

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4 giorni fadiscuss

Yes, but Larry Sanger of 20 years ago wouldn’t believe who he has become either. I don’t say that with prejudice, just that he has a very different set of guiding principles now than he had at the time and that influences his perspective on the site.

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They are cutting to make short term profitability on paper go up to appease Microsoft leadership. Long term, they are destroying themselves, but that is Xbox leadership in 5 years problem.

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What a terrible long-term decision. You have a team with incredible talent that ships that you could move to something other than Doom if you wanted, but instead you are laying them off.

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Completely agree. Their problem is that corporate wants more money to funnel back into AI and it is really inconvenient that Xbox provides only a couple billion dollars per month whereas Office and Cloud provide many more billions. What a complete joke.

10 giorni fadiscuss

They often have two tiers, a rental tier and a purchase tier. If you purchase the assumption is it will be available forever.

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Yeah, I was one of those people. Did not see this coming. The situation is truly dire out there.

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I feel like they would be very specific if it was no.1.

23 giorni fadiscuss

The ellipses in American English is often used as an awkward pause, or to indicate trailing off, or sometimes to indicate a sarcasm or passive aggressiveness. The last one seems to be a more modern usage. I have seen older generations use it as an almost soft question mark to indicate uncertainty, which always confused me because I assumed thy were being passive aggressive out of nowhere.

23 giorni fadiscuss

Assuming that constant R&D is not a requirement to compete. At what point can any of these companies stop improving their models? The answer is when they have a monopoly position. And we’re nowhere near that happening.

26 giorni fadiscuss

I miss Jobs. He was the one all these tech founders wanted to be. And Job, for all his faults always really cared about the product he made.

I feel like every founder is now some kind of grifter. Bouncing from new idea to new idea on how to make more money even if the whole thing is just smoke and mirrors.

28 giorni fadiscuss

Even libraries that go to the trouble of doing this throw away probably a thousand books for every one they can sell.

28 giorni fadiscuss

Libraries purge books from their collections continuously all the time. It has happened forever.

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I think some people are missing the point here. There is an age where it makes sense to get your kid some kind of connectivity device, but you don’t want to get them a smart phone so you either get them an over priced dumb phone or kids phone or you could get them the Apple Watch. It allows them to call you for pickup and maybe text a few friends, but is inconvenient enough they won’t sit and stare at it all day.

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A real snooze fest. I care so little about the AI features. I felt like they introduced the same thing over and over again.

I would be more excited if they said “AI? Yeah, we decided we aren’t interested in doing it anymore.”

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I think there are also people who understand the technology but overestimate potential impact. I remember someone at the Apple Vision Pro announcement arguing that this would be one of Apple’s biggest products and everyone would want them for taking photos and videos of their kids birthdays and such because it would be so much more natural than pulling out a camera and they just couldn’t be talked out of it.

Sometimes a technology can be really cool and never catch on. Sometimes a technology can be really popular anbd even world changing and never make much if any money.

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One of my indices of mania. You saw similar comments for crypto, blockchain, NFT, VR.

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Effectively it is solely owned by Elon and other people have an equity stake. This is another huge risk. You have to trust Elon not to get distracted and decide to hard pivot to something else.

Look at Tesla and their hard pivot to humanoid robots. He is all in on robots which about a dozen other companies already make and are largely unprofitable in making. He is betting AI rapidly improves in a way that allows robots to become rapidly more useful and there is zero evidence that is feasible in the next 5 - 10 years.

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By what metric would you consider the AI market undervalued?

How do you value the AI market? Sometimes inventions change the world and companies struggle to make money. Airlines and the entire aerospace struggle to make money but no one can doubt airplanes are one of the biggest changes an inventions in human history.

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I like to look at the memory I bought a little less than a year ago which has gone from $300 at time of purchase in summer 2025 to $1250 to $1500 today. Absolute insanity.