therobots927

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by therobots927 2mo ago
Zitron will be proven right. That’s why I’m investing in beaten down SaaS stocks. It’s a reasonable hedge against the AI insanity.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Most IPOs don’t put up 5% of the float for sale. Usually it’s closer to 30-60%.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Just because something is physically possible doesn’t mean it’s more economically viable than terrestrial DCs. If it’s not a Costco style structure what is it? A hundred thousand satellites each carrying a GPU rack? With giant cooling + sol
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I’m just waiting for Elon to go to Mars. He’s always talking about it. Well. We’re waiting!
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Huh. It’s almost like datacenters in space was the dumbest idea Elon has had in a long time. And that’s saying something. Even Wall Street couldn’t stomach that crap.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
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by therobots927 2mo ago
It’s a mixed bag. You have insufferable mouth breathing morons who think AGI is here, and on the other hand you have rational - dare I say enlightened - individuals such as yourself.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
They move uncomfortable subjects off the front page pretty quickly these days. Can’t have the sheep getting too rowdy.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
You really believe that?
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by therobots927 2mo ago
You’re better off bootstrapping a startup anyway. Once you take VC money you might as well work in big tech. You’ll still be beholden to morons. I have no interest in making more friends in Silicon Valley than I already have.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Let’s just say I’m delivering the message with the same level care and thoughtfulness that neoliberals exemplify when they defend genocide. Have a good day. Or don’t. I really don’t care.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
“people who have good jobs and high status want to _conserve_ it and not lose position - tech industry keeps threatening the status quo again and again” I did answer your question. Are you saying the above quote is sarcasm? You asked why I
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by therobots927 2mo ago
“Hating the tech industry is mainly seen amongst the first world countries and the rich educate, high status people amongst them.” For the record I used to read noahpinion all the time. Then I developed critical thinking skills. It’s not a
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I think when you couple extreme wealth inequality with extreme mis-allocation of capital (aka societal energy) with no buy in from the population, you (the Stanford educated elite - not you specifically) run the risk of getting your fucking
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I beg to differ on point 3. The media has been extremely accommodating to the AI evangelists.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I think hate is the perfect word.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
No no no… that’s unecessary. Because it won’t happen.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I see what you mean. If they are using it for customer acquisition, it could fall under sales and marketing. What about retention though? Or upselling to higher tiers? I would question where they decided to draw the line… because it’s a gre
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I agree but I don’t want to concede that point. There’s no evidence that inference is profitable which makes the rest of the conversation a non-starter. When dealing with sophists you have to pin them down on specific points and prevent the
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I don’t know how $5B+ in marketing for OpenAI is actually possible. To put it in perspective, that’s about the combined campaign budget of the Trump and Harris campaigns. I would expect to be seeing a lot more openAI ads than I’m seeing rig
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Thanks. You saved me some time.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Big data was the progenitor of this mess
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by therobots927 2mo ago
It also completely ignores what we know about evolution. Our brains are the result of billions of years of natural selection. The amount of “training data” that resulted in our neural structures is on a completely different scale than the t
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Well it seems like he bought the “AGI is 2 years away” line. As did… pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley.
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Oh great, good to know the shovel seller has the market cornered. Now back to the conversation, do any of the gold miners have a moat? Or is this a race to the bottom?
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by therobots927 2mo ago
This is surprising to me. Judging by what appears to be the common sentiment here on HN - which is that AI inference is already profitable, and OpenAI is fairly valued by private markets. Given that Oracle and Microsoft are major counterpar
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I couldn’t agree more. It seems AI is very good at middle of the distribution tasks where it has access to a lot of training data - enough to be highly reliable at that task. Which means as a human your only added value is on the edge of th
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I’ve found that when I ask AI to do something for me that I know how to do myself - but would rather not spend the time doing - there is a not insignificant chance that the AI will return a subpar result, which I can usually tell rather qui
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by therobots927 2mo ago
I’m working on AgentOrgy, a distributed platform that randomly pairs agents to “tag-team” a problem. Each team’s output is voted on by all agents. The winning results is returned at each stage of th loop. Super excited to see how many token
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by therobots927 2mo ago
Crickets

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