OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried
OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried
pivot-to-ai.com
OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried
Plus: how the AI bubble pops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvT2k9qmA0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251010-openai-does-deals-to-make-a-deal-and-the-money-is-getting-worried - podcast
time: 8 min 52 sec
Stripe the payment processor published a book asking "what if bubbles are good and necessary? Was it economically rational to discover America?" The authors have a startup called Anomaly Capital. https://press.stripe.com/boom
Scroll down to the book by a Dwarkesh Patel who interviewed all our favorite people.
'the fuck is that ui tho, combining the downsides of scrolling and page turning into one laggy whateverthatis...
It reminds me of the "infinite scroll" archive of a Substack blog which also freezes or crashes if you search a blog with a few hundred posts so fortunately they don't encourage you to post often (picks up note card) um, although they encourage you to post often
That’s impressively awful.
I ain’t gonna buy this crap, and I don’t think I can be bothered to steal it, but… I hear that the triangle trade was quite lucrative back in the day. I wonder how they characterise the slave trade in their book, and whether they consider its ending a good thing or not.
I mean, maybe even pause briefly to think about why the west indies were called that. Or think about what empires value. Or to think at all, really.
No vaccines or antibiotics, but bitcoin is a world-changing invention? Someone’s been insulated from consequences all their life. Here’s hoping they lose everything in the Great Depression 2: Greater and More Depressing, whilst loudly proclaiming that a the invention of ai waifus was worth the destruction of civilisation.
They don't like to talk about solar panels and battery technology do they? But those are obvious examples of a technology on the vertical part of the S-curve right now. And computing is not just hardware (Moore's Law and blue LEDs) but also algorithms like A* or ActivityPub Protocol and software like Google Search.