Comment by dofm

To be maximally fair to them, I think it is difficult to be one of the key businesses in a market bubble and not fall victim to this kind of thinking, especially when the continued inflation of the bubble depends on you — lots of people lose their shirts if you don't push hard to be "special".

But as you say, there is a measure of getting high on one's own supply now.

And there's the curious solipsistic energy of Sam Altman whimsically musing in public that it turns out his product is too expensive for people and they complain when you make the price realistic (when it possibly needs to be more expensive for OpenAI to survive).

They seem to believe that the ordinary rules either will not or somehow must not apply to them; it's increasingly bizarre to watch.

Maybe the people around pets.com were this bizarre; we didn't have so much livestreamed interview content to show us.