There will be no #aibubble collapse.
Not in the sense most #Luddites are praying for.
Sure at some stage there will be market consolidation, but there will be no tumbleweeds rolling through abandoned data centres.
In the short term, the #compute will he sold for cents on the dollar, the compute market is already commoditfying.
Instead of multiple #Ai firms, there will emerge 2-3 monoliths, in the same way #dotcom crash left dark fibre in the ground and gave us google and Facebook.
The Luddite revival is quite concerning to me.
This rewriting of history, by supposed lefties, is just fucking insane.
Luddites were not good people, not in any way. They hated the fact that lower-paid workers - people from the countryside - were moving to cities, and taking their jobs. They're fucking Reformers, One Nation, Republicans, AfD, whatever in the country you live.
Yeh, employers were shit, but they didn't want better working conditions. Nope, just to destroy the machines so poor people couldn't make cheaper fabric than them.
When you revive Luddites as some sort of heroic movement, you revive the same right wing populist shit we're dealing with right now
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The prompt was bad, but what's worse are his critics.
One of the problems with the #luddites is they ravel in their ignorance of the technology as if not understanding it gives them some mystical insight.
If you hate Ai, you are the first cohort that needs to keep up, otherwise you just sound dumb.
The "thou shall not hallucinate" prompt to be effective is "verify against credible sources"
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This works 100% of the time as modern #LLM do in fact pull live results of searches and know what is a credible source. I know this to be true because I have used it literally hundreds of times, doing manual desk checks in the early days to confirm it work.
What this does show is #andreessen arrogance, just like Luddites that he/they don't need to learn about #Ai because THEY ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TECH.
A position that is silly, when the tech evolves monthly.
Using AI is a learned skill and Andreessen and his critics demonstrate that they think they don't need to.
Horrific to see these events. Or was it terrific? Need to remember to ask Claude about that.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134
#luddites : "WAAH LLMs eat the planet with huge energy hungry Datacentres !!!!"
#Google : Here is one that runs on 4 watts of power of your prayer tablet.
#luddites : (Waaah ambulacing intensifies)
Time to admit it was never about Planet destroying #Ai but your reluctance to learn new shit and hanging out with all the Kool kids, dancing around the bonfires in the woods?
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