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by Eufrat 5mo ago
> It is cool feature but to what end? Doesn’t this sum up most of the AI “innovations” we’ve seen shoveled in this bubble? We constantly see AI thought leaders backpeddling on promises and just spouting general nonsense. Altman originall
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by Eufrat 5mo ago
I think the vagueness of statements like this is why a lot of people (myself included) are just so very skeptical. Surely some company wants to brag about their use. I don’t doubt it’s found its way into certain spaces, but by and large a
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by Eufrat 5mo ago
Using a tool as a tool is hard when the market is telling you to use it in everything as if it’s the new sliced bread.
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by Eufrat 5mo ago
> There's simply no way to price video any other way than by usage. I suspect the same will come for everything. I don't think there's any way for all of the current AI models to work except as a usage model. The question
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
At the risk of asserting the claim was obviously a bit facetious, number theory had the reputation of having very little practical applications and I don’t mean that silly quote by G. H. Hardy. A lot of applications just required a lot mo
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I don’t think any of the AI model providers have produced any evidence to back their claims of profitability. I want to see their S-1s, then we can fight.
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
> You realize that sounds incredibly naive in the history of mathematics, right? This is after the fact justification. You are arguing that because a thing (number theory) showed practical applications we should have dumped a lot more ef
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
No.
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
But that’s exactly my point. These are absolutely worth studying, but being what they are, nobody should be dumping massive amounts of money on them. I would not find it persuasive if researchers used LLMs to solve the Collatz conjecture o
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I think we should at least ask the latter, if it turned out it cost $100,000 to generate this solution, I would question the value of it. Erdős problems are usually pure math curiosities AFAIK. They often have no meaningful practical applic
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Humans and very often the machines we create solve problems additively. Meaning we build on top of existing foundations and we can get stuck in a way of thinking as a result of this because people are loathe to reinvent the wheel. So, I don
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Probably worth noting that the new-ish Mozilla CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, is clearly an AI booster having talked about wanting to make Firefox into a “modern AI browser”. So, I don’t doubt that Anthropic and Mozilla saw an opportunity to mak
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
It’s also worth noting that Musk helped successfully lobby the NASDAQ to implement a “fast entry” rule which takes effect at the beginning of May, suspiciously convenient timing for a SpaceX IPO, so much so that I believe it has been derisi
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
This just lends more fuel to AI skeptics that this entire thing is a massive, unsustainable grift. The explanation only adds confusion and implicitly means that this was not a mistake. What is someone to take away from this? That $20/m
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
The “Internet” was a DARPA-funded research curiosity initially. It was not crammed down people’s throats like a roll of Oreos while advocates screamed that, “You like this, right‽ This is the future! You have to like this, what is wrong wit
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I think people are just tired of the fire hose of posts that have been showing up since it came out. It’s so annoying. Why does everyone need to pimp it so hard? It’s like your aunt trying to push Herbalife on you every time you see her.
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
What happens if it makes a mistake? How would you know?
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
You forgot to add, “Here’s why.” /s I know that headlines are all about eyeballs, but this is seriously just exhausting. Headlines are advertisements and advertisements are about getting engagement. Surely having your audience just get
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
What I meant is that yes, good ideas will get funding, if they like you and if you are a good ROI (though, not all are required). This also may allow you to enter the clique/network. However, a lot of this money circulates between
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Money is not given to good ideas (though, it doesn’t hurt). Money is given to friends . If you look at how VC (or really any network) funding circulates, it’s just people who are allowed to enter that circle and money just flows between th
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I really don’t understand the structure that Mozilla has setup here where Thunderbird lives under their for-profit branch, but is so dependent on donations. I remember reading they were considering charging for Thunderbird services when the
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
There is a strong suspicion, especially of people who are skeptical of AI, that the actual price is being severely subsidized. The sense is that it’s an extreme version of growth before revenue. It is questionable if the true cost of traini
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Nix provides declarative, reproducible builds. So, ostensibly, if you had your build system using Nix, then some of the issues here go away. Unfortunately, Nix is also not how most people function. You have to do things the Nix way, period.
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
1. Revenue is not profit; you can make $10 billion by spending $20 billion. 2. It is not clear how they are getting their numbers.
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Based on what? A lot of this is vibes and FOMO; just like any economic bubble. There is no objective evidence of anything you’ve said. It isn’t even clear if AI has contributed positively to global economic growth. It reminds me a lot of th
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
> I get that most people here think the West and America is evil or whatever but the idea the Ayatollah and top members of the IRGC were moderate is just an affront to morality. I really don’t understand this logic. I find it rather myop
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
There are no talks or anything. Iran has no incentive to negotiate with a party as unreliable as the US is under Trump. I would literally negotiate with a dead opossum before I would continue to negotiate with Witkoff and Kushner. I mean, a
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
Anthropic needs to show that its models continually get better. If the model showed minimal to no improvement, it would cause significant damage to their valuation. We have no way of validating any of this, there are no independent research
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I feel like that’s a bit glib? Surely, there should be some more critical questions posed by why just buying a bunch of GPUs is a good idea? It just feels like a cheap way to show that growth is happening. It feels a bit much like FOMO. It
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by Eufrat 6mo ago
I think it’s also important to add the context that Broadcom’s CEO, Hock Tan, went on CNBC in October and had a vacuous conversation with Jim Cramer about their OpenAI “deal” at the time [0]. Nothing of substance was said, it was just endle

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