Charlie StrossNov 14

Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.

It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115548040527129225

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@cstross

Since the 1990s every tech wave has been a pump and dump bubble laying the groundwork for the next pump and dump bubble. The staggering inefficiency of such a Ponzi economy, channelling capital into mega-billionaires pockets instead of productive growth is why China is rolling out 400 kph mag lev trains while we are shoveling brain dead software into toasters.

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@mastodonmigration @cstross As Keynes says it: "The position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done"
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@nicopap @cstross

Knew we were in trouble when speaking to a group of young tech entrepreneurs who had no idea what a P&L statement was, but were very conversant in 'eyeball' metrics.

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@mastodonmigration @nicopap @cstross

Could be a covid metric. .
Inter pupil airy distance. > 6’

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