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Yes, without [popular activity] there would be more [resource activity uses] at a lower price. At some point you have to grant people agency and accept that th
by bko 1y ago
Yes, without [popular activity] there would be more [resource activity uses] at a lower price.
At some point you have to grant people agency and accept that things spend money and time on things that are valuable to them.
- mcphage 1y ago> you have to grant people agency and accept that things spend money and time on things that are valuable to them We're talking about companies here, not people. And yet, it is kinda true—companies spend time and money on things that are valuable to the people at high level positions in the company and board. But that isn't the same as companies spending time and money on things that are valuable to the company.
- bko 1y agoChatGPT currently has ~ 120 to 190 million daily active users and ~ 800 million weekly active users. It's the fastest growing product in history, blowing others out of the water. I think investment is warranted
- datadrivenangel 1y agoHey if you have a few trillion dollars to invest, my "Free dollar per user daily giveaway" app will be even faster growing. ChatGPT is great, but giving things away is ultimately philanthropy, and the OpenAI investors expect returns, not a tax write-off.
- trod1234 1y agoYour just looking at pool walking down a concentration gradient. When everyone has access, and such access eliminated more jobs than created, do you think the investment was warranted. Value is only ever based in human action; when the basis for the reasoning is shown to be false or removed it becomes something similar to tulip mania.