bjacobel

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by bjacobel 1mo ago
How do the glasses distinguish between taking videos of your children playing at the park, and taking videos of other peoples' children playing at the park?
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by bjacobel 1mo ago
The best AI products have a userbase of one. The average AI product has a userbase of zero.
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by bjacobel 1mo ago
Is there a need ? Or a want ?
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by bjacobel 2mo ago
People? Or corporations?
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by bjacobel 4mo ago
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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by bjacobel 5mo ago
> 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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by bjacobel 5mo ago
Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?
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by bjacobel 6mo ago
Exactly such an app exists. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163
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by bjacobel 6mo ago
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 subscripti
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by bjacobel 7mo ago
What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?
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by bjacobel 7mo ago
> Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.
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by bjacobel 8mo ago
What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?
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by bjacobel 10mo ago
Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.
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by bjacobel 11mo ago
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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by bjacobel 11mo ago
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&#x2
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by bjacobel 1y ago
> 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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by bjacobel 1y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...
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by bjacobel 1y ago
Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.
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by bjacobel 1y ago
There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".
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by bjacobel 1y ago
> 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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by bjacobel 1y ago
Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters" No results.
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by bjacobel 1y ago
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.
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by bjacobel 1y ago
Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?
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by bjacobel 1y ago
Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?
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by bjacobel 1y ago
It’s clearly written by AI.
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by bjacobel 2y ago
Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"
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by bjacobel 2y ago
Plot twist: running this just made sea level rise another quarter-inch, and you're causing one.
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by bjacobel 2y ago
A person like what? What attributes does he possess that your mental image of the average prisoner does not?
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by bjacobel 2y ago
He's proven repeatedly that he's incapable of abiding by the conditions of his parole. What makes everyone in this thread so sure he'll demonstrate "good behavior"?
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by bjacobel 3y ago
The end goal here - multiple people who are isolated by the technology they're wearing experiencing a simulacrum of human interaction mediated by that technology - is not only unbelievably depressing but also honestly just really borin

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