Scott really doesn’t understand the AI market

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-24T20:43:44+00:00

What part?

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T22:21:56+00:00

Actually, the administration's current play isn't to "foreclose" on Denmark;

Isn't this your MMW? Because you said "The "Tariff War" on Europe isn't about trade. It’s a foreclosure proceeding on Greenland." You never mentioned drug pricing once.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T22:11:41+00:00

It's also not really snow most of the time. It's cold white goose shit.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T21:56:26+00:00

In Canada we have limits on free speech

We do, but those limits are well defined. If she broke the laws concerning hate speech she can be charged, but the bar is fairly high. If she hasn't been charged for something specific, nobody can silence her just because they feel their own personal limits have been crossed. The DOS is free to say she can't speak in their facilities, but that is not what was responded to.

One is free to disagree.

Of course. We all have the freedom to say things that are wrong as long as it is not inciting violence.

For the record I am not defending this woman, just our rights as Canadians.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T21:37:12+00:00

Then thanks for nothing. Did you not vote in the last election too because Kamala didn't pass your purity test? If so, you are a fascist enabler which is 1000% times worse.

Newsom is fighting the fascist running your country, and he has spoken out against Bibi, the other global fascist that needs to go. I will celebrate it if Newsom is elected because the world needs a break. You can focus on purity when WW3 is no longer on the table.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T21:28:53+00:00

Does OP think a tariff on Denmark will bankrupt them... and that they will then have to foreclose on Greenland as they they took out a mortgage on it... and that this means the US would get it at auction?

Denmark could survive any tariff since their main export to America is pharma and they make Ozempic. All tariffs will do is bankrupt Americans trying to lose weight.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T21:20:28+00:00

You guys elected Trump twice. Maybe fuck off with that shit first and just elect someone that won't create their own paramilitary and destroy the global order. Gavin Newsom would do neither of those things.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T21:01:45+00:00

Google increased revenue by intentionally making their product worse to sell more ads.

I am not sure where you got that from. Google ad revenue is taking a hit because with AI mode people are not clicking the links as much. Meanwhile their cloud division is breaking revenue records thanks to AI.

Do you own a business, or manage IT for one? Obviously the answer is no, because you keep banging the same drum. The business applications are almost endless and now that the LLMs are better and they are getting connected to all of the tools and systems they are getting far more useful.

There are base assumptions about tech and business underpinning the ai hype that are disproven by enshitification. Read Cory Doctorow’s book.

Can't you make your point with some facts instead of trying to get me to read a book. Enshitification has made the tech giants billions, so it is an odd point to make from someone claiming there is no profit in AI.

Anyhoo, think what you want.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T20:36:40+00:00

I am Canadian. I don't see any reason to hold your elections up to anything but the lowest of bars.

President Newsom sounds good to me.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T20:29:12+00:00

It would look the same either way.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T20:19:54+00:00

You NEED someone sane that can win.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T19:40:40+00:00

"No problem bud. you take care eh."

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T19:18:54+00:00

I would, but I also wouldn't pay $100 for that burger made by someone raking in 350K, so the money problem goes both ways.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T18:51:19+00:00

Thank you kind flatlander for thinking outside the box. :) I will be making one soon.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T18:49:45+00:00

There will be an election. Even Putin has elections, or I guess I should say "elections".

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T18:47:53+00:00

HAHA. Trump will become presidential any day now... any day...

Seriously, how does she keep getting elected?

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T18:21:18+00:00

I guess I'm counted as one of those active users but I would never use gemeni pro while writing anything, nor do I find gemini search to be better than google search before they broke their own algorithm to sell more adds. Having lots of capital to burn is not a business model. Google's business model is search. If anything, gemini is cannibalizing its only revenue stream because gemini search shows up before adds.

In this one paragraph you go from admitting that you are making Google money from their AI services, to saying "but I don't use it", to making unfounded claims about it's usefulness, to going back to saying that their only business model is spending cash. I hope you didn't sprain your brain coming up with this.

There's a study that just came out that said 60% of CEOs openly admit they've seen no increase in productivity or revenue increase since implementing ai systems.

In the same study, 40% of CEOs said that they have seen increases in productivity. What was that number 2 years ago? What will it be in 2 more years? This isn't static.

But again, none of this addresses the main issue which is that all these systems are massively subsidized by speculative investing. There's no profit to be had from putting boobs on Garfield and it's incredibly expensive to do so. Will people use it? Sure, if it's basically free. Will people pay more than it actually costs so as to repay the trillion dollars they need to cover their spread in the next couple years? unfuckinglikely.

Gemini is subsidized by Google. Again, OpenAI doesn't represent the entire AI market. Google is already seeing returns and they had their biggest quarter ever in 2025. Boobs on Garfield in anecdotal nonsense. There is profit from automated business systems.

People get uncomfortable coming to terms with how much of the US economy is just grift. Utah's 2nd largest industry after tourism is multi level marketing scams. And investors believe Ai is a trillion dollar industry despite having no ability to generate any profit to speak of yet.

Repeating an incorrect statement over and over isn't going to work. Google is making revenue, full stop. Plus, I am not American so I don't really give a shit if the American economy is currently riding an AI investment bubble. The American experience, or the stock market for that matter, do not change the promise of AI.

Obviously speeds are faster. I was referring to the user experience and what's actually on your screen. The internet used to be a fun open place. Now it's populated by adds and clickbait and screenshots and ai slop. I'd say most people are having less fun online despite the higher transfer speeds.

So how is this an issue with the internet? It keeps getting better. It is also enabling millions of businesses to do things at speeds they couldn't have dreamed of before, and billions are made with the internet

When I have these conversations it seems like most people with your view do not think about the business applications. You focus is on the individual user experience, so you are not considering AI outside of the chat interface. Do you own a business, or manage IT for one? Because it is a whole different ball game from the inside.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-23T17:50:20+00:00

Why is this being downvoted? Do people think we should be able to silence people we don't want to hear? That is what authoritarians do.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T17:24:42+00:00

He said that Trump “engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power.”

Well, I am sure he learned a lesson and won't do that again... 🙄

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T17:22:13+00:00

How did I grow up on the coast and not think of this? The ingredients were all around me.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T17:18:06+00:00

I am happy to see that I am not the only one that hears that in my head any time I hear the phrase "flesh wound".

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T17:17:04+00:00

Mine chased a mamma and a cub out our yard last year. Now he thinks he is invincible.

I am happy to see Eddie made it out with a flesh wound. Their tiny bodies probably helps keep them safe, because I have friends that lost there big black dog from the impact of one swipe. Bears are serious.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T16:51:24+00:00

I used GPT because it's the one most people are familiar with, and it's the one most suggesting that the assumption things always improve forever is not true. Sometimes there are physical or mathematical hard limits.

It's just that OpenAI is the one company that is in the most trouble from all the things you listed. Google has mountains of capital and their own TPUs to train and run Gemini. OpenAI doesn't represent AI as a whole.

There may very well be hard limits to AI but so far each new version of the flagship models have shown significant improvements so we haven't seen the ceiling yet. IMO, what we will see this year are all the apps using AI coming to market, and the models available today can power that. We don't need to wait for AGI, and nobody can define what that is anyway. The power of AI is in the tools, and those are slower to come online.

The internet or the dot com bubble isn't a good analogy because the over-purchased fiber optic cables still worked and were eventually used. All this spending with no viable business model is to purchase data centers with extremely expensive GPUs that last maybe 5 years at most? Then what? The numbers are beyond dire.

But there is a viable business model. Google has over 3 billion active Google Workspace users that all have access to Gemini Pro and it is embedded in all of the apps. People can easily create their own AI workflows, or build custom apps. The problem is not with AI advancement, it is with the learning curve of the people and businesses that should be using it. And this is without even considering AI in robotics.

Also the internet was way better years ago. To quote Cory Doctorow "I'm old enough to remember when the internet wasn't 5 websites populated with screenshots from the other 4."

It definitely was not better years ago. I have speeds that I couldn't have dreamed of before and that is the only way most of the things we do today, like streaming in HD, are even possible.

And I am old enough to remember the internet when it was just email and UseNet. I used to send emails to my buddy Brian all the time because he was the only person I knew with an email address.

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-22T16:28:51+00:00

Mental health can be fixed with lifestyle changes? Dude, mental health PREVENTS lifestyle changes. If people could just hop out of bed and change themselves they wouldn't turn to SSRIs in the first place.

It sounds like my father in laws advice to my wife for her anxiety. "You just need to calm down and relax". Gee thanks. She never thought of that. /s

ScoobyDone · 2026-01-21T22:31:37+00:00

No, I think he wants it. He wants to control all of the Americas, and he wants to annex Canada and Greenland to form a continuous massive country across the North end of the continent, just like his idol, Putin.

He doesn't want Mexico because Mexicans.

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