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Suffice it to say this is not the first time Ed Zitron has been egregiously wrong on both analysis and basic facts. It's not even the first time this week. I w
by dcre 1y ago
Suffice it to say this is not the first time Ed Zitron has been egregiously wrong on both analysis and basic facts. It's not even the first time this week.
I wrote a post about his insistence that the "cost of inference" is going up. https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-inference/ https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-inference/
- freediver 1y agoIt would be nice if your blog had an RSS feed :)
- lotsofpulp 1y agoFinding an audience that wants to believe something, and then creating something that looks like justification for that belief is a method to gain notoriety, which may or may not lead to income. Works doubly well for issues that are "hot" in the public sphere, as you can tap into the supporters and the outraged.
- iyn 1y agoSolid post, thanks for sharing. Zitron occupies his own echo chamber. I've seen some people share links to his articles with a smirk as a "proof" of how "bullshit LLMs are" — and I know for a fact that they have no understanding of LLMs or how to evaluate limitations, saying nothing about unit economics. Sadly, I don't think it's possible to reason with them. To be clear, I do expect that the bubble will burst at some point (my bet is 2028/2029) — but that's due to dynamics between markets and new tech. The tech itself is solid, even in the current form — but when there's a lot of money to make you tend to observe repeatable social patterns that often lead to overvaluing of the stuff in question.