The OpenAI Bubble

Marciplan•about 3 hours ago

I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article.

I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a grip, dude. Yes, bubble. People and their investments are going to get hurt. But there is also some really nice things we'll get out of this (that, of course, might not make up for the damage that it'll do) It's also pretty clear his ever-longer articles are just him testing out his upcoming book. But the tone is starting to overshadow the substance, which is a shame, because the underlying argument is solid enough to stand on its own without the theatrics.

vanuatu•about 1 hour ago

"not enough people are emotionally prepared for if it's not a bubble"

newaccountman2•23 minutes ago

yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting.

This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.

acuteaura•2 minutes ago

AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking.

I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone else has stopped giving a shit, pretending to get work done at insane velocity on borrowed time.

It's no longer "can AI be useful" to me, it's "how do we avoid people frying their fucking brains".

tangenter•about 3 hours ago

It’s interesting to see how independent analyses reach more or less the same conclusion.

The OpenAI Bubble

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