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I don't understand why Ed Zitron considers this a sign of the end of OpenAI.

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  • I don't understand why Ed Zitron considers this a sign of the end of OpenAI.

    Although I only see OpenAI, it seems confident that its IPO can break records.

  • I don't understand why Ed Zitron considers this a sign of the end of OpenAI.

    Although I only see OpenAI, it seems confident that its IPO can break records.

    If you're sure you're going to make $1,000,000,000,000,000 as long as you hold onto 10000 pieces of paper, selling them for way, way less than that is very stupid. Even if it's generational wealth, it's still very stupid.

    Most of the openai share owners are already millionares, either via the high salaries or whatever. To have people like altman, a billionaire, sell "trillionare" shares for mere millions of even hundreds of millions strongly implies a need to cash put at the top of the bubble, put those hundreds of millions in your hyped up pocket, and let the rubes hold the bag.

    The other part of this is the marketing. It may very well be the biggest IPO ever, which will be splashy and loud and keep the bubble going longer, which is exactly something you want if you have no substance to show instead.

  • If you're sure you're going to make $1,000,000,000,000,000 as long as you hold onto 10000 pieces of paper, selling them for way, way less than that is very stupid. Even if it's generational wealth, it's still very stupid.

    Most of the openai share owners are already millionares, either via the high salaries or whatever. To have people like altman, a billionaire, sell "trillionare" shares for mere millions of even hundreds of millions strongly implies a need to cash put at the top of the bubble, put those hundreds of millions in your hyped up pocket, and let the rubes hold the bag.

    The other part of this is the marketing. It may very well be the biggest IPO ever, which will be splashy and loud and keep the bubble going longer, which is exactly something you want if you have no substance to show instead.

    All I hear is NFTs

  • If you're sure you're going to make $1,000,000,000,000,000 as long as you hold onto 10000 pieces of paper, selling them for way, way less than that is very stupid. Even if it's generational wealth, it's still very stupid.

    Most of the openai share owners are already millionares, either via the high salaries or whatever. To have people like altman, a billionaire, sell "trillionare" shares for mere millions of even hundreds of millions strongly implies a need to cash put at the top of the bubble, put those hundreds of millions in your hyped up pocket, and let the rubes hold the bag.

    The other part of this is the marketing. It may very well be the biggest IPO ever, which will be splashy and loud and keep the bubble going longer, which is exactly something you want if you have no substance to show instead.

    As far as I know, Altman does not own any shares in OpenAI.

    And what a good explanation you gave, although that is what happens in game theory, right? That normally the human being wants more despite the risk.

  • > cognitive decline.

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  • Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification

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    Is it about how everyone is using the term wrong and it doesn't mean anything anymore?
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    I agree, I should have clarified I actually meant setting up a wireguard server on a vps, not developing and alternative to wireguard or openvpn.
  • Does this also explain what happens with middle and upper management?

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    My dad around 1993 designed a cipher better than RC4 (I know it's not a high mark now, but it kinda was then) at the time, which passed audit by a relevant service. My dad around 2003 still was intelligent enough, he'd explain me and my sister some interesting mathematical problems and notice similarities to them and interesting things in real life. My dad around 2005 was promoted to a management position and was already becoming kinda dumber. My dad around 2010 was a fucking idiot, you'd think he's mentally impaired. My dad around 2015 apparently went to a fortuneteller to "heal me from autism". So yeah. I think it's a bit similar to what happens to elderly people when they retire. Everything should be trained, and also real tasks give you feeling of life, giving orders and going to endless could-be-an-email meetings makes you both dumb and depressed.
  • Its so disturbing.

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    That's probably true, but it sure can be hard to motivate yourself to do things yourself when that AI dice roll is right there to give you an immediate dopamine hit. I'm starting to see things like vibecoding being as addictive as gambling. Personally I don't use AI because I see all the subtle ways it's wrong when programming, and the more I pay attention to things like AI search results, it seems like there's almost always something misrepresented or subtly incorrect in the output, and for any topics I'm not already fluent in, I likely won't notice these things until it's already causing issues
  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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    Even as a dev, I use a 32" QHD screen for programming. If I went 4K, I would need to use 150% scaling, and that breaks a LOT of stuff. Everything is built for 100% scaling. Every time I've plugged my PC into a 4K display I've regretted it. It go to 30Hz (on HDMI) or glitch out or something. Even if it doesn't, it's never as smooth.
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    I moved to DDG because I felt Google results were getting worse. You would search for something specific and instead just get varying degrees of the same article on different sites about it instead. Then I felt DDG was getting worse in just not always getting what was related, so I've moved to qwant. Other than not always getting geo-related results, the results have been the best I've seen in a while so I've stuck around for now.
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    The vast majority of videos don’t do well so… that means this solution won’t work for most people