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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?

Exactly such an app exists.

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/232163

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.

What makes the statistics published by the government inherently more trustworthy?

Upgrading your CPU wasn’t a spec sheet exercise — it was transformative.

What happens when law enforcement members are the stalkers?

Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.

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

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

According to Grok

Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...

Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.

There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".

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.

Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters"

No results.

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...

Can you provide usage statistics to support this claim?

Who has "the Metaverse" been useful for?

It’s clearly written by AI.

Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"

Plot twist: running this just made sea level rise another quarter-inch, and you're causing one.

A person like what? What attributes does he possess that your mental image of the average prisoner does not?

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"?

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 boring. We've already built this. It was called the "metaverse" and it sucked. Everyone left.

There are multiple kinds of warrants.

The CEO and CCO were personally involved, as well as a whole coterie of Senior-level directors. Calling this a "few employees" is completely disingenuous.

Is it? How've you benefited from the existence of SpaceX? I haven't.

This happened in late August and early September.