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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Insight
Acharya Predicts Incumbents Will Cede Voice-First AI Productivity to Startups
“You could imagine some of the incumbent productivity providers, you know, Gmail for email, for example, they're going to build a lot of the obvious features AI features for those apps and experiences, but it's less obvious that they would prioritize something …”
Opinion
Rahul Vohra: Returning to the inbox after archiving emails destroys user flow
“In Gmail, when I archive this email, I end up back on the inbox. I now have to decide what to do next, and I have to do this every single time. This destroys flow.”
Insight
Butterfield: Search-centric tools drastically lower cognitive cost compared to manual filing
“Where it wasn't just the fact that you could search for the messages and find them again after, which obviously is very important, but the cognitive cost of processing incoming messages fell through the floor in comparison to a world where you had to manually …”
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: AI model training runs can be paused and resumed seamlessly
“Training runs can be paused, right? You can actually like, you can shut a training run off for two weeks and then start it up again. Which, you know, you can't do if you're running a Gmail service or a search engine or something.”
Assertion Supported
Thierer: California proposed bills to ban Gmail in 2004
“Oh yeah, there were bills here in California that would have banned Gmail because it was unthinkable that we would target ads based on what was in your emails.”
Assertion Partly supported
Casado: Dark web hackers charge about $100 to breach a Gmail account
“So in order for me to, for example, take over your Gmail account, it costs about a hundred bucks.”