Ulrich

…any particular reason to use this over Signal, SimpleX, XMPP, Matrix, etc?

I didn’t say anything about either.

it just generates an answer based on a mixture of the input and the training data, plus some randomness.

And is that different from the way you make decisions, fundamentally?

…how is it incapable of something it is actively doing? What do you think happens in your brain when you lie?

It knows the answer its giving you is wrong, and it will even say as much. I’d consider that intent.

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It used to be the only thing you could buy. Then they started making bigger phones. Now everyone buys those instead. They stopped making them because people stopped buying them, not the other way around.

It can and will lie. It has admitted to doing so after I probed it long enough about the things it was telling me.

I crossed them off the list after they ditched the headphone jack and the CEO tried to blow smoke up everyone’s ass as to why. Then they introduced their new Bluetooth headphones.

You’re arguing out of both sides of your mouth and contradicting your previous comments.

I’m not, and I explained exactly how I’m not in the section you quoted.

stated that manufacturers put things like a headphone jack into a phone that seems like it was built by Fisher Price and then point to it’s lack of sales and claim “people don’t want headphone jacks”

What does any of that have to do with small phones, though? You seem to be implying OEMs have a some sort of agenda against small phones. But why?

I’m saying that consumers don’t always act rationally

Why does that matter? OEMs are not going to continue manufacturing phones that consumers aren’t buying because they’re irrational. That would, in itself, be irrational.

I haven’t forgotten that.

You said people don’t have a choice. I’m telling you it used to be the only choice they had. Then OEMs started offering other options and everyone wanted those. No point in making devices the market has proven time and time again that they don’t want.

You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?

Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.

What does that even mean?

What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?

So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money

Why would they feel like they were getting lass value when it was the size they wanted, and had everything else also?

Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger

So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?

You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.

Pot meet kettle.

I don’t think this argument holds water since the market hasn’t been adequately tested.

You forget that the entire market used to be comprised of exclusively “small” phones, and we moved away from that.

When was the last time a small phone that didn’t also focus on being budget friendly and feature-limited hit the market?

The iPhone 13 Mini and ASUS Zenfone, not so long ago.

Cool.

You forget that all phones used to be small.

Also all those examples you gave apply to all phones, not just small ones.

Apple sold a 13 Mini, which was nearly identical to the 13, as much as is physically possible, and it was a dud.

Because people don’t buy them.

Its an Android thing. Carriers pay OEMs to install bloatware and spyware on the system partition, where it can’t be removed. Apple simply doesn’t allow it.

Its easy enough to avoid by not buying from the carrier but sometimes the carrier will also sell you them for dirt cheap and with payment plans. Also the OEMs themselves will install their own invasive bloatware.

Oh my God! That’s disgusting! AI porn online!? Where!? Where do they post those!? There’s so many of them, though. Which one?