New comment by jacob235 in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

jacob235 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:33:07 +0000

I don't think it seems that appealing to the average user either. The tasks shown are either things that most people can do already with ai (powerpoint), aren't interesting to most people (the rocket sequence), or seem to be more work to dictate to Astra than do yourself (listing on ebay).

New comment by jacob235 in "Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts"

jacob235 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:31:28 +0000

The problems, in my view, are bandwidth and behavior, but not for the reasons noted. In a dating profile, you can carefully curate every part of your first impression. This means that 1) you need to have basically a perfect profile (doesn't mean you come off as the hottest, just that it's all green flags) because otherwise you are not putting your best foot forward, and 2) the dating profile is not reflective of the reality of the person.

This leads into behavior, as you can spend however much time you want vibing and talking through text, but meeting and spending time together in person will invariably be different. This results in two major high-pressure, high-filter events as opposed to the one from initially meeting in person.

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New comment by jacob235 in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

New comment by jacob235 in "Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts"