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Now AI can be just like Zuck and come up with 0 original ideas that have any value. Facebook copied MySpace and bought Instagram (with FB Camera losing to them

Now AI can be just like Zuck and come up with 0 original ideas that have any value. Facebook copied MySpace and bought Instagram (with FB Camera losing to them). Their only original idea was Metaverse - an FoA (flop-on-arrival). They even dropped the ball on AI, something they should have had a massive advantage at with their ad profiles and social media empire.

garbawarb 6mo ago
Can you name some companies whose products are built on original ideas?
- butlike 6mo ago
  To be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the wheel, which I believe is an original idea
  - dessimus 6mo ago
    By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares their product to it as the greatest thing since.
    - jdlshore 6mo ago
      Chillicothe Baking Company.
  - sunrunner 6mo ago
    I'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a refinement to the round boulders that already existed on the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing in that form.
bko 6mo ago
> Build one of most valuable companies in history and grow to be one of youngest billionaires > tinfoilcondom (account created 5 min ago): dude has no talent or original ideas I love this platform
- mandeepj 6mo ago
  > grow to be one of youngest billionaires Are you equating intelligence with networth? :-) I think it's more like this https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Facebook-Betrayal/dp/0307740986 https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Face...
  - 0xy 6mo ago
    IQ is highly correlated with both income and wealth so it seems like a fair comment. Of course not all billionaires have a high IQ, but far more billionaires do than your average person.
    - Natfan 6mo ago
      survivorship bias. there is absolutely nothing stopping a poor child in sierra leone from becoming the next einstein, outside of access to things that should be considered mandatory for human life.
      - 0xy 6mo ago
        Blank slate theory has been thoroughly discredited so many times I'm not sure why I'm even responding, but this is complete nonsense. If you're born with 62 IQ like the average Sierra Leone citizen, no amount of education will get you to 120. It's literally not possible. According to research, a full education can add ~15 IQ points. So someone from Sierra Leone who's average and receives a full education can expect to have around 77 IQ, which means severe issues with reading comprehension, math beyond simple arithmetic and following multi-step instructions.
        Natfan 6mo ago
        so geographical region of birth dictates intelligence? how intriguing. i would like to know if that child was fed well, provided with shelter and given a good education -- would it still be, in your words, "not possible" for them to break even 100IQ?
cmdrk 6mo ago
> Their only original idea was Metaverse surely you must be joking.

garbawarb 6mo ago

Can you name some companies whose products are built on original ideas?

butlike 6mo ago
To be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the wheel, which I believe is an original idea
- dessimus 6mo ago
  By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares their product to it as the greatest thing since.
  - jdlshore 6mo ago
    Chillicothe Baking Company.
- sunrunner 6mo ago
  I'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a refinement to the round boulders that already existed on the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing in that form.

bko 6mo ago

> Build one of most valuable companies in history and grow to be one of youngest billionaires > tinfoilcondom (account created 5 min ago): dude has no talent or original ideas I love this platform

mandeepj 6mo ago
> grow to be one of youngest billionaires Are you equating intelligence with networth? :-) I think it's more like this https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Facebook-Betrayal/dp/0307740986 https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Face...
- 0xy 6mo ago
  IQ is highly correlated with both income and wealth so it seems like a fair comment. Of course not all billionaires have a high IQ, but far more billionaires do than your average person.
  - Natfan 6mo ago
    survivorship bias. there is absolutely nothing stopping a poor child in sierra leone from becoming the next einstein, outside of access to things that should be considered mandatory for human life.
    - 0xy 6mo ago
      Blank slate theory has been thoroughly discredited so many times I'm not sure why I'm even responding, but this is complete nonsense. If you're born with 62 IQ like the average Sierra Leone citizen, no amount of education will get you to 120. It's literally not possible. According to research, a full education can add ~15 IQ points. So someone from Sierra Leone who's average and receives a full education can expect to have around 77 IQ, which means severe issues with reading comprehension, math beyond simple arithmetic and following multi-step instructions.
      - Natfan 6mo ago
        so geographical region of birth dictates intelligence? how intriguing. i would like to know if that child was fed well, provided with shelter and given a good education -- would it still be, in your words, "not possible" for them to break even 100IQ?

cmdrk 6mo ago

> Their only original idea was Metaverse surely you must be joking.