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AI Companies' Shared Destiny Recalls Dot-Com Bubble Memories(bullbear.ninja)
4 points by oswarld 4mo ago|0 comments
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by oswarld 9mo ago
What specifically made it read as AI-written to you? I’m not asking to dispute the reaction. I’m trying to understand which parts trigger that response now: repetition, structure, tone, or something else. There’s a lot of ambient fatigue ar
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. I think this thread is mixing two very different kinds of markets, so let me clarify the scope of the argument. I agree with the point that markets are often defined by legal and operational systems — how contracts work, how la
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. This is a really good thread, and the Walmart Germany example is exactly the failure pattern I had in mind. What went wrong there wasn’t a lack of effort or even a lack of localization budget. It was that the core choices never
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. Fair enough — though for the record, if I were going to offend anyone with AI prose, I’d at least be consistent and say I used Gemini, not ChatGPT. Jokes aside, I get the fatigue. The post wasn’t trying to win on voice, just to
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. That’s a fair critique. You’re right that concrete case studies would be more interesting if the goal were to teach tactics or prove a specific playbook. This piece wasn’t written to do that. It’s intentionally a framing piece,
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. That reaction is fair, and I won’t argue taste. This wasn’t written as an SEO play or a lead-gen piece, and it’s not meant to be a comprehensive framework. It’s closer to a framing memo I’ve used internally with teams that were
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here — this is a great example of exactly what I was trying to get at. What’s interesting in cases like yours is that population density looks like the obvious explanatory variable before launch, but after the fact it turns out to be
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by oswarld 9mo ago
Author here. That’s a fair reaction, and I agree with part of it. You’re right that almost no one literally believes “every person in America” is their market. My point isn’t about what people consciously believe, but about how decisions ac