dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 14 hours ago

Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

 

in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason: they're spending real money to achieve imaginary private equity valuations and this was enough to make their stock go up. So they can't stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYxEVRiCvM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

"I love it!!"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

there's having a favourite animal, then there's whatever this is

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

smarmy not as cryptic as he thought right-winger on lobsters who didn't quite hide his power level

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I finally found which user we're talking about and I am quietly delighted at that smarmy fucker being directed to the fourth-floor egress.

edit: here's the long form mod last warning. You'll see in that thread my next prediction for ejection via the fourth floor, whose profile shows he's into crypto.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

her favourite online handle is "the unit of caring" (or TUOC), which is an Eliezerism for money.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

btw I read Said's responses to his banning and if that dude ever shows up here he's gone the second he's spotted

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

that's what we used to say about crypto

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

good news is the economy will collapse anyway, Wall St is running a multipronged scam economy right now

 

the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky:

Tired: cloud computing

Wired: could computing

 

this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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