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		glimshe on Feb 18, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grok3 Launch [video] Overpromising and underdelivering are the cornerstones of advertising/marketing/sales. "Use this deodorant and a gorgeous woman will want you". Do you know why people do it? Because it works.

croes on Feb 18, 2025 [–]

That's great for a startup, but bad for nuclear weapons and financial data.

starspangled on Feb 19, 2025 | [–]

In fact governments are among the worst offenders I can think of in over promising and under delivering.

And that's not just Trump's government either, how's this whopper? https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/12/joe-biden...

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