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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin

@shimminykricket.bsky.social

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Electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems engineer and teacher. Dad. ♦️👌 1911. PC Gamer (Steam: Pres. Shimmy Carter). Loves history, philosophy, science and thinking about hard problems.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · Apr 3

Me in the tariff era:

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Ill never tire of watching the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. They have gone diamond in this house.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Nope. Not enough of the economy is exposed. They'll be fucked.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

CEO of $8 billion AI company says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ that people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful share.google/bmz266WUkGaL...

CEO of $8 billion AI company says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ that people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful

Cerebras cofounder Andrew Feldman warned aspiring entrepreneurs they need to be working “every waking minute,” echoing the likes of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

They wont make money either way. The open source ones will find their niche but they wont make money either. My prediction is 2-3 years and the party is over.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

In the upcoming AI Winter Part 3, the big gen AI models are going to die and businesses will be using smaller application specific ones that can be run locally. Gen AI will fade into the background like machine learning and other types of AI models have over the past few decades.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Social media *prints* money. We arent the customers of social media. We are the product being sold to other businesses.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

That's exactly right lol. Comment sections, blogs, random websites. They are training on publicly avaliable data and running out.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Only 3% of Gen AI users are paying for it and of those that are paying, 100% are not paying enough for the service so the Gen AI companies can recoup their costs.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Both lol. The models are probabilistic and there are FAR more ways for a sentence to be wrong than to be correct.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 5h

Anthropic just released a paper that shows you can poison any LLM/Gen AI of any size using comparatively small sample (as few as 250 documents or 420k tokens). In other words, the public can destroy any LLM model just by filling the internet with bullshit which Gen AI is already doing 😂😂😂

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

The crazy part about Gen AI is that its *never* going to be profitable under the physical laws of the universe we occupy using classical computers but rich people dont need profit to make money. Just profit IOUs that may or may not come before they cash out their options.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

The AI companies are also promising to pay each other more money than they actually have so they making deals with money that doesnt exist using their future stock prices...that are being inflated by securities fraud lol.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

Musical chairs. They are playing to see who gets left holding the bag.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

Microsoft invests money in OpenAI who then takes that same money to buy compute from Microsoft. Issa circle lol

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

These AI companies are doing one of the frauds Enron got caught doing

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The British History Podcast @thebhp.bsky.social · 3d

This is an excellent article on what’s happening to my hometown, and why everyone should replicate our response to it.

Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

www.thenation.com

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

The entire Gen AI industry is about 10 companies passing around investment dollars (on paper) to each other to inflate their stock valuations while loosing money on all of their Gen AI products.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 6h

The entire AI industry is engaging in securities fraud (roundtripping) enabled by Trump.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 7h

Agreed 100%

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 9h

Example:

Nursing -> professional degree Psychology -> academic degree

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 9h

There are two broad types of college degrees: Professional and academic. The former is intended to prepare you for a specific career upon graduation. The latter is intended to prepared you for further study and *then* a job. This is distinction is rarely obvious to students.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 9h

The biggest problem with college, and social mobility in general, is the amount of class-based unspoken rules that you are unlikely to know the fewer college educated people you grew up with.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 11h

Same. I dont like micromanaging.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.bsky.social · 11h

At the minimum along with reading and writing well and knowing how to do research.

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