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> "AI" is unprofitable and almost completely useless.

Famous people said that about the Internet as well, back in the day. And about AMZ.



I can give you a giant list of technical novel developments that the doomsayers predict would go nowhere commercially and they were right.


I've still never bought a single physical product from Amazon.

Only AWS, which I stopped using when they decided to raise their price I'd already locked in and prepaid for, which should be unlawful. Then I realized every traditional provider is much cheaper.


> I've still never bought a single physical product from Amazon.

In the context of this thread, do you think that statement means anything? Amazon is (and I can't believe I have to say this) incredibly successful at selling physical products. It doesn't matter, at all, if you have or haven't bought a product from Amazon.

I might as well make a comment in a thread discussing menstrual pads that "I've never used a single one". This is true of roughly half the population.


It's relevant because someone implied that Amazon is not almost completely useless. I find it almost completely useless.




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