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@oldmate.bsky.social
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Blovius Maximus. Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT. Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy. Utter contempt for Generative AI and Crypto.
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The implication seems to be that this is somehow a positive development. Why would anyone wish such a thing on themselves or their colleagues?
Two gravy boats, one cup
This country is so broken.
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?

$2733.15 a month.
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I struggle to imagine how serious people can equate modelling the patterns of written text with any sort of cognitive capacity. It makes as much sense as saying if you feed your cat enough tuna it will develop gills.
Another cracking post from @sarah-j-smith.bsky.social

"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."

Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
No, and that should have been nose-on-face obvious to everyone. The fundamentals of this industry are so rotten, it beggars belief that anyone would invest in it. Three years in, and there's not a single profitable success story, other than Nvidia, the shovel merchant in this goldrush.
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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
The nuclear winter it's going to visit on Silicon Valley when it does burst will be terrible, but they've got no-one to blame but themselves. So much capital just incinerated through FOMO.
Just catching up with Cory Doctorow's blog: "Bain & Co say the sector needs to be grossing $2T by 2030 in order to break even, which is more than the combined grosses of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta"
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I get your point, but remain unconvinced. Training burns those GPUs out at a pretty phenomenal rate, and the running cost of the data centre in electricity and water can't be handwaved away completely.
Yes. I hope OpenAI get the book thrown at them in the case that was brought against them recently. All of them have this massive "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" mentality towards the harms their products do. Someone wrote the code. Someone decided to release it.
I have seen comments - from people who are more knowledgeable than I - that a data centre designed for GPUs would require major rework to suit standard server equipment, it's not a simple swap out.
Coming into this thread late, having just found the time to watch your video with Adam Becker, but I must say I am surprised no-one has commented on how unbelievably offensive this statement is. How is the cost being measured? Dollars or lives?
The number of times they have hosted (amongst others) Stephanie Kelton and Steven Hail for seminars, yet still persist with this monetarist nonsense.
He has quite the void inside, you know.