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Joel_Mckayyesterday at 8:17 PM1 replyview on HN

90% of what people communicate is not verbal, and requires minimum empathy to understand the context.

This includes customers, staff, and community peers. Probably should shutter the entire division to mitigate future brand damage. =3


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walrus01yesterday at 8:18 PM

Sure, I mean from the day to day operations of selling a product to the customer, maybe it does fine? People in the article say it's friendly and cooperative (perhaps a bit too much). I was thinking more in terms of building a consistent plan for retail product lines to sell over a multi month period. The selection of "stuff" in the store right now looks like you put an etsy search into a blender.

It is also probably too high of a goal to expect an LLM to come up with money-earning products that people want to buy that will pay for San Francisco level retail storefront rent, electricity, insurance, internet other basic overhead costs, plus the fully loaded salary cost of at least one employee. If the storefront was free of rent, maybe? Or if it was operating selling some kind of highly in demand product line where there would be economy of scale.

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