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by usaar333 626 days ago
few is not > 3. Literally it's just >= 2, though I think >= 3 is the common definition.

15 is too high to be a "few" except in contexts of a few out of tens of thousands of items.

Realistically I interpret this as 3-7 thousands of days (8 to 19 years), which is largely consensus prediction range anyway.

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While it's not really _wrong_ to describe two things as 'a few', as such, it's unusual and people don't really do it in standard English.

That said, I think people are possibly overanalysing this very vague barely-even-a-claim just a little. Realistically, when a tech company makes a vague claim about what'll happen in 10 years, that should be given precisely zero weight; based on historical precedent you might as well ask a magic 8-ball.