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by krupan 4mo ago
What are you assuming the author case is? The article points out that by normal logic these companies are overvalued and so owning their stock is risky. Now that they've taken on all this debt, it's even riskier.
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I don't think the big companies will fail, but their stock prices could dramatically drop. I think newer smaller companies like OpenAI and Anthropic could easily fail, as well as a bunch of other AI start ups. Altogether it could mak
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by krupan 4mo ago
Yes
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Big Tech is borrowing like never before(startupfortune.com)
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Does anyone pay for tinkercad?
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My coworker is already seeing ads while using ChatGPT
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I think I'm taking it a step further even and asking that if Watterson decided that he would never merchandise Calvin and Hobbes and then 10 years later saw things differently and changed his mind, would that be an integrity violation?
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by krupan 4mo ago
Oh my gosh, thank you for writing this so that I know I'm not going insane. I keep thinking there's no way things have gotten worse, like maybe I'm miss remembering? But I was pretty sure I wasn't miss remembering
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by krupan 4mo ago
Some interesting discussion here about Bill Watterson and Jim Davis and it makes me wonder about this word, "integrity," that's being used. In my mind, integrity is to be honest and to do what you promise to do (unless we ar
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by krupan 4mo ago
You are correct. Also, copyrights do expire eventually (takes longer than it should, but they still aren't perpetual)
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by krupan 4mo ago
Great works get shared and passed on to others, even without T-shirts and stuffies. Also, the copyright will expire at some point.
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Aw man, you just hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Looking back, the Sunday comics were such an indulgence! To just sit on the floor with huge sheets of paper covered in colorful illustrated jokes and enjoy each one slowly. I need to take
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by krupan 4mo ago
I've pondered on this my whole adult life. Are we doing kids wrong with things like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, fairy tales, tall tales, etc.? I think not. I think kids come up with their own childish and wrong explanations for t
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by krupan 4mo ago
Using software is not the same as copying the code. Copyright law only covers making and distributing copies of things. It's a subtlety of the law. By default (in the US) you are not permitted to copy someone else's work (with s
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by krupan 4mo ago
Open source copyright license can't actually restrict how you use the code. Clever hack though if the log message really did cause agents to delete code!
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by krupan 4mo ago
Eh, let's just build more natural gas powered data centers. Maybe an LLM will tell us how to solve problems like this I'm joking, but apparently there are influential people who really believe it's a good idea (see: governor
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by krupan 4mo ago
I think what's also very similar between that situation and this one is the technology is not understood at all by the people in government. They've just been told by certain people it's powerful and dangerous
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by krupan 4mo ago
Ok, now we are getting somewhere. There is no guarantee that they will be a big part of the stock market. It is not "absolutely" sure, for them or for any new public stock. That's why the indices have/had the the rule
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by krupan 4mo ago
I can't imagine why so many people would be looking for conspiracies now days /s
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by krupan 4mo ago
You forgot that standard computers are also not sensitive to radiation
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by krupan 4mo ago
There are lots of US companies that pay dividends. Another commentor lists some tech companies that do, and there are lots of other types of businesses that do. A quick internet search will give you a list. You are correct that stock buyb
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by krupan 4mo ago
I love this clip (this is the other guy that predicted the 2008 crash, played by Steve Carell in The Big Short). Cult Stock is a great way to think about it. https://x.com/i/status/2061808563979251857
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by krupan 4mo ago
What evidence do you have they are not? You've been questioning everyone, please justify your position
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I find it hard to believe that these LLM systems with their enormous training sets and built-in system prompts have their output meaningfully modified by a few paragraphs of extra prompting in the form of these skill files, BUT, it is cool
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If the consume more tokens then they are not free. If they consume those tokens without really improving anything them they are snake oil
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by krupan 4mo ago
It's as of people crave some sort of control and/or determinism from these chaotic tools, and so they have to believe that these "skills" make a difference
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by krupan 4mo ago
Nobody in this thread said free or affordable. I'll admit I assumed free when maybe I shouldn't have, but it is a much more precise term than affordable. I you want to talk about affordable I would again point to the way things
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by krupan 4mo ago
Linux and all the other free software argues that that is not needed
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My "and then" simply implies order of operations. When it's fully "trained" then (and only then) can it generate text. And I will reassert that even if it "understands" the text it was trained on, that is
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by krupan 4mo ago
Have there been commercially successful free software games? I'm not aware of anyone that has even tried to do that. That doesn't mean it's impossible.

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