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I mean, your argument is that Google has had increasing revenue and profit for a decade, to the point that they have $400B in revenue + profit this year, and that they are going to lose money because they plan to spend $180B on capital projects for new data centers next year, because you know their business better than they do.


Argument from authority with a little whataboutism thrown in. I’m done wasting time with you.


Lol, it's not an argument from authority.

The claim isn't "google said so". It's "google is doing so". It's a claim to incentives and rational actors, or perhaps to revealed preferences.

If you want to get on a high horse around logical fallacies, make sure to understand them, else you reveal... something else, about yourself.


Google is doing something != they are doing the rational thing.

Suggesting otherwise is defintionally argument from authority.

You know you can just admit you’re a sophist and we can move on.


That's why it's a "claim".

Learn basic english before moving onto the big words :)




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