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onenote

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16. Same advice I always give: don't make financial decisions based on buy or sell advice from a DU poster.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:58 PM
23 hrs ago

First, unloading AI related stocks now because "five or ten" years from now it might not be a good investment is really bad advice.
Second, thinking AI is a bogus pyramid scheme is bizarre.

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I work for a Multinational Corp. TBA Yesterday #1
Just like the dot com bubble Dave says Yesterday #6
The problem is not with the product. The problem is the way the FINANCING of the product is structured. 3Hotdogs 23 hrs ago #22
It's not the same gulliver 14 hrs ago #47
They also make hardware in addition to software Sympthsical 3 hrs ago #58
Lots of companies are integrating AI angrychair 20 hrs ago #40
This has been my firsthand experience as well. W_HAMILTON 19 hrs ago #44
My nursing school uses AI to teach Sympthsical 2 hrs ago #59
I also am old enough to remember the first time i saw the internet... W_HAMILTON 19 hrs ago #43
IBM and McDs couldn't make an AI menu system work consistently, I doubt others success uponit7771 3 hrs ago #54
I entirely agree dickthegrouch Yesterday #2
these doom and gloom financial predictions rollin74 Yesterday #3
Everyone here thinks they're Michael Burry fujiyamasan 23 hrs ago #13
... cause this time circular financing without organic income is different this time? uponit7771 2 hrs ago #61
AI, grok, crypto..................... Lovie777 Yesterday #4
While I understand your point, I believe AI is more in the over-promised stage similar to right before the Dot.com artemisia1 Yesterday #5
I agree Dave says Yesterday #7
Partially right, IMO Happy Hoosier Yesterday #8
21st century needs require 21st century tools.... anciano Yesterday #9
Most of the junk you see isn't good quality ai jfz9580m 14 hrs ago #46
The valuations don't make much sense fujiyamasan Yesterday #10
I'm more inclined to listen to my trained financial advisors. Gore1FL Yesterday #11
The zillow dollar question is not if, CanonRay Yesterday #12
AI has been around for a long time. LeftInTX 23 hrs ago #14
No. They are not interchangeable terms. Celerity 23 hrs ago #15
But it's used in common speech nowadays LeftInTX 23 hrs ago #20
It seems if many non-AI things are now being re-branded as AI Deminpenn 11 hrs ago #50
Same advice I always give: don't make financial decisions based on buy or sell advice from a DU poster. onenote 23 hrs ago #16
Yes, I've been here for decades fujiyamasan 22 hrs ago #29
If I took investing advice here, I would have sold everything years ago and hid it in a mattress somewhere MichMan 7 hrs ago #52
I completely agree about your assessment of Crypto currency Buddyzbuddy 23 hrs ago #17
Like it or not, AI has a solid function in business Mr.WeRP 23 hrs ago #18
Who has money to invest? ThreeNoSeep 23 hrs ago #19
Well, A.I. has destroyed my profession entirely already. OldBaldy1701E 23 hrs ago #21
I'll have you know that I've invested heavily in crypto Orrex 22 hrs ago #23
LOL! MineralMan 22 hrs ago #25
Yeah, but with hotels!!?!?! dutch777 22 hrs ago #31
Whoa--easy there, moneybags! Orrex 21 hrs ago #38
The problem here isn't whether AI (I hate that name, its so false) will exist into the future, it will Cheezoholic 22 hrs ago #24
There is chatter about how the " large language model" isn't the right one Klarkashton 22 hrs ago #26
Not Quite Metaphorical 21 hrs ago #37
Correct, too much hallucinating uponit7771 3 hrs ago #55
You're right. I'm going straight into scratch lottery tickets underpants 22 hrs ago #27
I didn't buy Micron at 12 cents in 1984 bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #28
Yep, people coming out of Forest Gump likely thought they "missed the boat" with Apple in 1994 fujiyamasan 22 hrs ago #30
We started getting into Nvidia about three years ago Sympthsical 2 hrs ago #63
Good call on nvdia fujiyamasan 2 hrs ago #64
Yeah, we've been conservative Sympthsical 1 hr ago #65
I think for some of us in our forties we became particularly risk averse after the Great Recession fujiyamasan 1 hr ago #66
Exact same here Sympthsical 1 hr ago #67
The fake-looking generated art and chatbots are but a sliver of what AI is and can do TheProle 22 hrs ago #32
I've been saying this on Linked In Metaphorical 22 hrs ago #33
The big money return in crypto is::: Norrrm 21 hrs ago #34
AI works for some things Diraven 21 hrs ago #35
"It is not really intelligent and has no ability to truly create anything." dedl67 21 hrs ago #36
Agree.... anciano 21 hrs ago #39
doubtful. WarGamer 20 hrs ago #41
Yes, Gemini 3 is impressive and much faster than before fujiyamasan 19 hrs ago #42
This is from Gemini itself uponit7771 2 hrs ago #60
It's fucking boring and it makes the people who use it fucking boring. hunter 15 hrs ago #45
AI is changing the world for the better gulliver 14 hrs ago #48
Remember how computers were going to reduce the amount of paperwork we suffered... hunter 7 hrs ago #51
Now do hallucination rate uponit7771 3 hrs ago #56
I think that's a bit starry-eyed Happy Hoosier 2 hrs ago #62
Sell Ford and buy Jeremiah Buggy stock.....1912 Melon 14 hrs ago #49
Right now Fords engine doesn't work like they said it does, of course sell Ford uponit7771 3 hrs ago #57
Cryptocurrency is literally hot air. Qutzupalotl 3 hrs ago #53
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