Filip PiekniewskiThe elephant in the room of AI wonders: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/ugly-numbers-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt
Jesse@filippie509 I wonder if AI doomerism backfired. It definitely got people’s attention, and may help with the regulatory capture, but it also gets you this.
@filippie509 I further wonder if we haven’t extended toward Sam Altman a bit of the Trump fallacy, assuming anything they do that seems irrational or counterintuitive must be some strategic master stroke. (Like, openly pitching your consumer product as the harbinger of mass unemployment / baby Skynet)
Harris Lapiroff@misc @filippie509 Every time VCs say stupid stuff (which is *a lot*) I think about this Matt Levine snippet and conclude that maybe they’re actually good at their job.
PeoriaBummer@harris @misc @filippie509 They’re vapid hype generators. Designing technology isn’t the goal. Selling a grift to another investor is the only skill. It’s all about the exit.
@PeoriaBummer @harris @filippie509 I think you might both be saying similar things with different emphases? I assume that whatever VCs are doing, it's largely working out for them. Sam Altman is no longer a VC though. Maybe old habits die hard.
@misc @harris @filippie509 Yep. I was emphatically agreeing.
Of course it works out for them. For the rest of us, not so much.