Wow, who could have guessed
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80% of AI projects so far...
100%, the remaining 20% grift their way to success
I think the whole system of venture capital might be garbage. We have bros spending millions of dollars like gif sharing while the oceans boil, our schools rot, and our infrastructure rusts or is sold off. Or, I guess I'm just indicting capitalism more generally. But having a few bros decide what to fund based on gutfeel and powerpoints seems like a particularly malignant form.
You think it might be??
Bro say that shit with some confidence.
Venture capital does not contribute beneficially to society.
Say it with your whole chest and both feet. Cuz it's true.
The situation where it's still profitable to invest this way means that there's some cross-flow of value from real to this which shouldn't exist.
I dunno which. Maybe government handouts to corps, for example.
Or ads revenue from any engaging activity, not only good, made huge because of oligopolies.
Or closing holes with currency emission.
It shouldn't be possible otherwise.
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This isn't unique to AI.
80% of new businesses fail, period.
Inside the first 10 years. We've been fucking around with AI for less than three.
AI has been around much longer than 3 years... LLM is just a new twist.
And for the most part it's still powered by underpaid South Asian manpower lol.
PyTorch and TensorFlow have been around for 7+ years.. If there are South Asians hiding in my computer, I'll find them....
That's great. Like 5% more fails than regular software projects. Why do people see this as validation for AI failing? Lol
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Grifters grifting grifters in a death spiral of enormous scale.
When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?
When normies angry at feeling stupid came into equation.
All those (stubbornly) computer-illiterate people - have you tried really irritating them? What they'll say at those moments is valuable.
They will say that computing can't be that complex. That reports on company's activity for a year are complex, that hydroelectric stations are complex, that car engines are complex. That history of art is complex, that fashion is complex, that relationships are complex. That politics is complex, that economy is complex, that law is complex.
But computing is not, it's just hard to do for normal people. All those freaks doing it have just built the whole industry for their own convenience. They are all openly or secretly autistic.
And now it's too expensive to switch from their freakish computing to computing understandable for normals.
We just have to break their resistance or outsmart them or bribe some of them so that they'd remake computing the normal way. But we can't do that immediately. It takes a lot of money, but the end result is worth it.
/s
This was also the reason for normies being so hell-bent on using social networks and other new shiny as opposed to what existed before them in 00s Web. Or for them being so excited about Apple. EDIT: Precisely because we, in their opinion people holding the bottleneck, collecting the Sound Toll, privileged group, some freaks, autistic children playing toys whom they can't accept as being smarter, were advising against those.
And now they are being literally promised the computer that works without programmers! And it even does some tricks to show them it works!
If any normies are reading this, don't feel insulted, it's only about the dumbest of you, and also it's not that harsh, you haven't seen what medical professionals write about normies.
I am a well educated person who uses these forums and many others with regularity and I have many opinions on tech after working in both marketing and the tech sector for a long time.
That out of the way, I will simply skip over any comment that says "normies" unironically. Especially over and over.
This isn't fucking 4chan, communicate like a human like the rest of us. You don't get out of being one of us. I don't even know your take because it's so distracting and immature and condescending.
This isn’t fucking 4chan, communicate like a human like the rest of us. You don’t get out of being one of us. I don’t even know your take because it’s so distracting and immature and condescending.
This also isn't your office, so you don't get to make rules.
That out of the way, I will simply skip over any comment that says “normies” unironically. Especially over and over.
Should have done that here.
EDIT: Anyway, anyone coming at me with that pretense will be called something worse than "normie". Well educated people usually don't try telling others how to speak.
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As one of those weird autists who make computing too hard who's been using Apple products for decades I really wonder where I fit in.
As someone tired of this shit you fit in just fine, I'm only approaching that stage but can clearly feel it.
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