These days it’s pretty weak blackmail shit. A little AI doctoring can create the same videos… So even if it’s possible, that doesn’t mean it’s plausible, and nobody cares what you do in your bedroom by yourself.

This is a fallacious. If you have a very small set of users, what exact data is in the database that you would be upset at losing? Maybe your contacts and your calendar. Which you could back up manually, which might actually be simpler than backing up the database.

Well that’s kind of misleading, right? If they didn’t set one up, then it’s probably SQLite. But if they did set one up, that was years ago, and who cares what it is, if it’s working.

Oh come on now. All of the strong options would have worked. Don’t let Google buy its competition off. Don’t let Google buy it’s default position. Don’t let Google control the browser. That’s it, problem solved.

You claim people are loyal, but if that were true, the aforementioned payoffs would not exist.

It’s always nice when the garbage takes itself out. And if you’re inconvenienced, I feel for you, but the writing has been on the wall for years. They will keep trying to suck more money out of you every way they can until you cancel your subscription, and because that’s going to happen in the end, why not cancel it today.

So … The piracy is not actually taking down anything.

Right, except for the part where you get verified and nobody can do that except you. Oh, and the part where your kids don’t steal a copy. Or a copy of someone else’s verification. And the part where it actually doesn’t contain references to your real identity; easy to fuck that one up, right… Hmm, that actually means the whole thing wouldn’t work.

Right right, of course that’s true, and it’s also true that many people have requirements that can only be met by a few vehicles on the market.

You are talking about your work phone, not your personal phone, right? … Right?

LLM: Something like what somebody might say.

Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)

Good luck suckers. Easy mark, easy money.

Right, which makes it just as bad. Wikipedia had enough proofreaders. You don’t need AI for that, because the need is already filled.

This is entirely different from a book writer who is going everything solo and has exactly one publishing window.

And writing feedback software has existed for decades. So AI adds nothing new. Again it is snake oil. It is always snake oil. Except when it’s bait and switch, to pretend it wasn’t snake oil in the first place.

800 is fucking huge tho. Big city folk can easily fitinto 300 if living alone.

Maybe they oughta unionize. Lol.

The bullshit continues. Ride that bubble, JPMorgan, you do that.

Right. You don’t get it. You hear people talk about a new technology but actually they haven’t talked about anything, they are trying to sell you snake oil, but you convince yourself that you understand what they mean, and that it’s somehow meaningful.

We could talk about the history of AI in software development, you know it goes back decades, and there are legitimate areas of research. But the bubble that people are riding right now, they are throwing LLMs at the general public and pretending those LLMs are good enough to replace large swaths of the current workforce, but that’s not going to happen because it won’t work, because that’s not how those models are designed. And then the snake oil salesman, they do classic bait and switch, and they start talking about expert systems and minor improvements to them, as if that is something new.

But even if my prediction is wrong, what that actually means is that people shouldn’t need to work full-time jobs anymore.

To be fair, if your argument is that some day AI research will be legitimate and no longer snake oil, then you could easily be right. But there’s no good reason to think that day is going to be in the next few years, rather than the next few decades or even the next few centuries.

On what grounds? Only certain things can be appealed, not “you’re wrong” gut feelings.

Before you get into those, it’s worth writing down your investment goals. What generally are you trying to accomplish? When you start reading more about investment, some people are going to try to push you into day trading. Obviously investing itself is not guaranteed, it’s a kind of gambling, but all of the short-term stuff is particularly close to casino gambling. Be careful of that.