kind of confused by chatgpt’s acquisition of the chat dot com url

chatgpt is simply a better url than chat

This isn't just a case of chatgpt's naming, but I am not a fan of this simplification of everything / make everything simple

It feels tasteless, it makes things taste tasteless or odorless, like i'm eating slop. It slightly feels insulting to me as well, somehow there is an undertone of treating everyone as being stupid, they just won't get it. I don't know, there's a part of me that feels like the uniqueness and character of a product is destroyed so early in the process. I prefer chatgpt

chatgpt > chat

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I feel like somewhere, there is some ex-private equity whispering in the founder's ear saying "you have to buy chat<dot>com" its so much better, the sean parkers of the world. But here's the thing, Sean Parker was doing something interesting by saying they should keep it simple when others were not. Now, everyone is doing it, and its -- boring.

I think the undertone of this is also, people need exits. They need them fast. So you gotta grow fast. And in order to be accepted fast, you gotta get a good domain name. This isn't wrong. I don't disagree with this strategy -- I'm just saying, you just end up with really boring names that everyone is going to forget in 20 years.

Make stuff weird, of course you want it to be universal, but be a little bit unexpected. Have some creativity, have some fun, don't cave in so quick. Be weird, and that's ok.

Sean Parker is not ex-PE guy, at all. But it's the ex-PE guy today, who watched Social Network and thought it was kinda dumb, that is saying this, and the founder is taking the advice seriously, because that's what you're supposed to do, right? wrong