I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it’s not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it’s just what they’re taught to do in their careers.

But, when we’re talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it’s just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.

That same tired script of “You can’t say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so it’s clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims.” shows up in Zitron’s comment box, it’s like clockwork.

I dunno man, maybe it’s because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when we’re talking about billion dollar investments?

Wasn’t the first time he shut down 8chan (or was it Kiwifarms? Something along the lines), he immediately came out to say “It’s really bad that I have the power to take down a website of shitheads.” Just seemed like everything about his ideology is confused.

Astounding, they’ve made noSQL for filesystems!

I am in awe of the sheer number of GPUs… whose lives ChatGPT has changed.

If it was just this one line, this would be in the top 10 funniest things ever written around genAI. Too bad the rest of the rambling insanity ruins it.

So I should be clear, I dont think theres anything special about Tech companies that should let them be treated differently. But for whatever reason, it is a fact that places like We or Tesla or Theranos or fucking Groupon gets stupid valuations just because they’re “tech” adjacent.

If the market ever catches on that theres no secret ingredient (and as Zitron’s shown, there are pretty visible public numbers pointing at this), we’re looking at a correction at the trillion dollar scale. Or maybe we never ask Google to put up or shut up, and just keep the fairy powder in our eyes forever.

I’m terrified for the future, and not even on hater shit. The public numbers are bad, and barring some extremely surprising reports locked behind a wall of NDAs, the private numbers don’t seem much better - even Saltman, perpetual cheerleader he is, doesn’t have much to offer except desperation to keep the party going, barely even a week after their big model drop.

So if all the big tech players know that this is garbage, the continual doubling down on this either points to: 1. scrambling for the pie while it’s there because they need it to stay afloat, or 2. everything else they have to offer is even worse somehow? And in either case, the aura of being a tech company instead of a company is lost, and I don’t know what happens in the fallout. The probably best case scenario is that only tech workers like myself have to eat the blowback, but I suspect things won’t play out so cleanly.

I admit, in my haste, I read that link as Marc Andreessen openly announcing they’re investing in the Chinese Communist Party, which is slightly funnier than the reality of yet another crypto game.

Sadly, he’s left the game just the last month: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/dining/pete-wells-how-restaurants-have-changed.html

Criticizing others for not being perfectly exacting with their language and then jumping in front of the LLM headlights all at once, truly the human mind has no limits.

Spotify setting aside a pool of total royalties that everyone competes over is crazy. I get it’s necessary to avoid going bankrupt when people like this show up, but wow, there’s layers to this awfulness.

[0] https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/royalties/

We distribute the net revenue from Premium subscription fees and ads to rightsholders… From there, the rightsholder’s share of net revenue is determined by streamshare.

Food analogy

This level of discourse wouldn’t fly on 4chan, how is it so popular with LLM fans?

I don’t accept a wrong caption is better than not being captioned. I’m concerned that when you say “High tolerance for error”, that really means you think it’s something unimportant.

Exactly, its a natural conclusion of accepting commodification as the One True Path. Words don’t mean anything if they don’t make a profit, and clearly you’re a bozo who can’t Make It (and the bar of Making It is always rising because Number Go Up), so you should join the borg and let my buddy Claude speak for you.

I can at least understand the guys who are using the AI text conveyor belt to make a cheap buck. Do the hustle, get your bag, whatever. We live in a capitalist hellscape and if that’s how you choose to survive, then fuck you, but I get it.

I don’t understand these guys who think it’s actively good that people don’t write their own words. It’s just a level of misanthropy that doesn’t make sense for how inflated their egos are.

This is 10000 words to promote being a garbage person, what the fuck.

When the average rationalist screed looks like this, I assume the reason they’re so absolutist for freedom of speech is because they never actually read each other’s speech.

For the level of continued investment AI has gotten, it isnt possible to be too harsh on these clowns.

Its posts broke containment, however, after an unsolicited reply from Sam Altman himself:

amazing tbh — Sam Altman (@sama) August 8, 2024

aren’t you supposed to be running the most valuable startup ever made? why are you cosplaying Ryan Gamestop Cohen?

This seems incredibly shortsighted even in their own framing. The SEO spammers who care about being on top of Google the most are the ones generating fake AI websites en masse, so wouldn’t this just cause immediate AI inbreeding?

This world is a joke and we’re just watching the punchline.