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Gmail's spam filter has gotten noticeably worse in the last two months. I'm half-convinced they threw away whatever they used to be doing and just put Gemini in the loop.

SpaceX claimed a TAM of $28.5 trillion in their S1, a number picked from a hat larger than the 2023 US GDP. Companies can and do lie in their S1 and there are rarely if ever any consequences for doing so.

Selling subscription productivity tools is a business that has existed for decades if not centuries. Just because their product is new does not mean their business is.

Who gets to decide what’s a genuine protest and what isn’t?

What happens if agents of the state initiate the violence?

> when there's a noticeable decline in stability and development

When?

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?

The best AI products have a userbase of one. The average AI product has a userbase of zero.

Is there a need? Or a want?

People? Or corporations?

There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.

> 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.

Has generative AI made material progress on curing cancer? Has it produced any breakthroughs, at all?

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.