"Don't you have phones" moment
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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"Talking fluently". You get completely meaningless answers. Big walls of text without content.
AI is a hindrance, not a helper.
Didn't manufacture enough consent. That's on you
If you're "mindblown" about this then you shouldn't be the CEO of any division of one of the most profitable businesses on the planet.
His mind has to have been blown all along to think this way and be so disconnected.
And once again, Ed Zitron is proven right about the Business Idiots running everything. Jesus fuck these MBAbros are so fucking stupid.
Ed has some great insights, but his walls of text is really a lot to take in at once.
Maybe you get get AI to summarize them ?
Hah!
Sounds just like the dumb fuck who killed Xbox.
why not just admit you overspent on datacenters, which you cant afford and trying to recoup some of the losses from your other products.
It is interesting to see his reaction to reality. He finds out that people think he's peddling bullshit, and instead of asking why they think that, he dismisses them as irrational... That's one way to run a company, but only if your company has a monopoly and customers can't run away even if they want to.
His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can't reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.
Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?
That's what AI currently feels like.
have you heard of THE WORM i have installed THE WORM on everything you own THE WORM is great it can do POETRY and ART for you and also EMAILS are you happy about THE WORM ? THE WORM is monitoring your reaction to THE WORM at all times
Hence why Valve is releasing the Steam Machine to push SteamOS. It will illuminate a pathway to run away on. At least for gamers.
I'm still bit confused about steamOS, I thought it was supposed to be a full on operating system for gaming centric PCs but it seems to need Plasma in order to do any traditional computer things.
Basically SteamOS is just a tweaked version of Arch Linux that boots Steam Big Picture Mode by default and launches games with Proton. It’s not a full blown OS by itself.
Which aspect of that confuses you? That it uses a Desktop Environment to do desktop things, or that they are using KDE Plasma instead of something else (say, gnome)?
Many people can run away, but it requires effort.
FUCKING CLAP YOU IDIOTS
He might be the dumbest ceo out there, and that is an impressive feat.
Nope. Ballmer is and always will be the all time king R. He's the dude that had MS pilot away from handheld devices because nobody will ever use cell phones. This was when MS was the only credible mobile OS. He oversaw Vista, he oversaw 8, both of which were complete disasters.
Though not a CEO, I'd say Don Mattrick made even dumber decisions than Ballmer. When asked flat out saying that if active duty military can't use the new always online console they can use the last gen console or get fucked was... a choice.
Glad I covered my tracks with a well placed 'might' lol.
I forgot about that idiot and would love to go back to forgetting them.
C'mon.... One more memory for the road...
Let's throw a chair in his honour.
But could he jump that chair?
Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.
Pro tip: when your customers don’t like your product, it’s not their fault. It’s yours, and the appropriate response is not complaining or incredulity that people don’t like it. The appropriate response is to change the product or scrap it completely.
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That's what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That's what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
"The customer is always right" might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.
If a lot of your customers don't like something, it's not something wrong with the customers.
One of the older variations of the expression is, "The customer is always right in matters of taste." Here we're talking about reactions to reality, so it doesn't quite apply directly, but still, these people are probably honest about what they feel.
I must be ceo material. I use this same type of argument when my partners seem unimpressed with my sexual performance.
If you think you need to blame the people for not being impressed by your product, the problem isn't with the people.
I always wonder if these areas the people's legit feelings or is this "just for the sake of the show".
Determinism is generally a quality I look for in computers
THIS
people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer "open this". I type into a search field to communicate "find this string".
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer "log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn't what I'm asking for."
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer “open this”.
Wish I could upvote this twice.
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer “log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn’t what I’m asking for.”
Won't stop them from trying to shove it down our throats.
Of course they will never define "fluent". They can't do that because then they'd be proven as lying hacks, or else setting a low bar that was met several years ago.
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