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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Honestly the best use of AI at the moment is to replace non-technical middle management layers. Many of those yelling the loudest for “more AI now” are quite ironically holding the jobs best replaced by the current creation of AI.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
To be blunt I don’t know that the world really cares what Bill Gates thinks anymore.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Congrats to the founders but honestly feel bad for the team. Hearing so many not good things coming from inside AWS these days. Place sounds like a total mess. Seems like a constant stream of top talent fleeing on my LinkedIn this past year
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Well the reason data center stuff is news is that local boards are resisting all the usual efforts. It’s been quite extraordinary, but town after town is sending the data center folks packing.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
In theory yes. In practice if the local congressman wants to keep their job they’ll block it at any cost if there’s local opposition.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
There isn’t much the federal government can do here. Planning permission is very local in the US. If local officials don’t want a data center it isn’t happening. In most communities these days you’d have better luck proposing to build a tox
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
OpenAI is getting its butt kicked by Anthropic on user growth. This appears to be a calculation that while burning more cash will hurt, continuing to fall behind on users will hurt more and may even be fatal to the company’s prospects movin
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Europe would rather regulate companies out of existence than grow them.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The foundation model companies can’t survive a token price war. If that’s where we’re heading get out your popcorn.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
We’re about to see a wave of “enshitification” experiments as AI companies become increasingly desperate to make their products financially viable in order to survive the coming cash and credit crunch.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Yes, but at the cost of Canadian businesses losing revenue
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
More difficult is a relative term. More difficult but still easier than other countries so the US remains in a stronger position here. The US can sustain the mess a lot longer than most countries can survive it.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The US would then just stop importing that electricity and funnel the power in from domestic sources. The electricity comes in from Canada because it’s cheap, not because the US can’t make electricity. Canada would shoot itself in the foot
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Its nice to see some backbone, but the challenge for Canada is that it’s broadly in a weak negotiating position here. Generally speaking Canadian companies need access to the US market a lot more than US companies need access to the Canadia
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
It would be ironic if this bug exists because it was vibe coded.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
I think it’s a combination of: 1. “Smart” people tend to constantly see patterns others are missing. So they’re fretting about problems others are blissfully unaware about. Sometimes these “problems” matter and somethings they don’t. 2. Con
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Has anyone been asking for these features? It would appear not. But hey it let some product manager check the “we got some of that AI” box.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
ROI doesn’t mean “does it help.” Few question if it helps. ROI is about how much its costs vs the value of the “help.” That’s where the present crisis is. Is the ROI there to pay for the trillions in commitments that have been bet on that R
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
If that was true then there wouldn’t be a giant ROI crisis fueling calls of an AI bubble burst imminent. If the answer was “the ROI is clear” then folks would just say that.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Usage does not correlate with valued output or ROI. This article smells like a bad attempt to say hey guys our customers see ROI without any actual evidence that they do. Also, somewhat amusingly, the “founder” consistently being at the top
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
“This call is being recorded for quality assurance, and to give us more assets to sell in bankruptcy.”
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
This is the opening salvos of an all out token price war. With models a commodity at this point there isn’t much leverage for the big labs to keep their pricing anywhere near where it’s at. And that’s at the worst possible time as they need
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The west is facing a dire water crisis and likely will for decades to come. Meanwhile in places like NYC suburbs in the east everyone waters their lawns with drinkable water because high quality fresh water is in abundant supply. People are
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The US is the largest exporter of oil and refined products. Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of crude oil.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Financial markets work in strange ways. The markets generally respond to US concerns by buying more US treasuries. That’s counter-intuitive but reflects the situation that if things hit the fan they feel loaning the US money is still the sa
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
That’s broadly known and at least they clearly account for it in their numbers, without all the “special financing vehicle” off balance sheet stuff that’s become common in the AI bubble era.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
More likely is communities will end up with a bunch of half-built abandoned datacenter projects.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Nvidia is turning into a savings and loan company that happens to design computer chips on the side. What could possibly go wrong.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Academia is brutal, but let’s not conflate legitimate struggles in an academic career with being caught allegedly just making up a whole bunch of stuff
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Absolutely not. Simply pointing out that there are many victims here beyond the obvious, and those passed over for promo or missed roles also are subjected to extreme mental health stress while others reaped rewards of alleged wrongdoing.

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