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  • It’s also just less effective this time around. Everyone’s afraid of being poor, capitalism as it exists functions based on that, so there’s a strong emotion that gets people wrapped up with the NFT hype train.

    It’s a lot less convincing to go “Have fun being as productive as you are right now, loser.”, at least without also going mask off and sounding like a supervillain.



  • @FredFigtoTechTakesa stunning self own
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    8324 days ago

    This is somehow even sadder than “I have depicted you as the wojak”.

    “I contracted the least efficient computer possible to depict myself as the chad, therefore I win.”


  • @FredFigtoButtcoinMr Beast crypto fraud traced
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    3024 days ago

    I believe its because they A-B tested his thumbnails, editors found that they vacuumed slightly more eyeballs when he was smiling, and updated the thumbnail images of him not smiling with photoshop.

    The fault isn’t with the photoshop though, he just doesn’t have a soul so it actually looks like that when he smiles.


  • It’s the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid “Sorry, you can’t play your Spongebob deck here tonight”, whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of “Sorry, you can’t play your deck without the One Ring here tonight” off of the basis of “normal” power creep.


  • Skimming the reddit thread in search of general public sentiment about this, but unfortunately mostly just found a greatest hits compilation of very gross comments.

    According to these very smart people, parents should expect your teenager to die as an outcome of not being perfect people 24/7, technology can never be at fault even when it literally tells you to commit suicide in coded language, and it’s actually impossible to understand which parts of society are causing kids to be depressed, so we must take it as a given that we can’t do anything about it. I regret having done this to myself.





  • You’re correct that I can’t stop them from making pants on head stupid decisions, but I’m not going to stop making fun of them.

    very likely making it economically viable…

    They’re going to fund currently economically nonviable nuclear plants to power their currently economically nonviable genAI schemes? Over the time horizon of 25 years a decade (edit: misread the article) before they scale up energy capacity at all past the rnd stage? Maybe pants on head is too generous.






  • @FredFigtoTechTakesOpenAI Is A Bad Business
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    102 months ago

    I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it’s not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it’s just what they’re taught to do in their careers.

    But, when we’re talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it’s just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.


  • @FredFigtoTechTakesOpenAI Is A Bad Business
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    2 months ago

    That same tired script of “You can’t say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so it’s clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims.” shows up in Zitron’s comment box, it’s like clockwork.

    I dunno man, maybe it’s because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when we’re talking about billion dollar investments?





  • So I should be clear, I dont think theres anything special about Tech companies that should let them be treated differently. But for whatever reason, it is a fact that places like We or Tesla or Theranos or fucking Groupon gets stupid valuations just because they’re “tech” adjacent.

    If the market ever catches on that theres no secret ingredient (and as Zitron’s shown, there are pretty visible public numbers pointing at this), we’re looking at a correction at the trillion dollar scale. Or maybe we never ask Google to put up or shut up, and just keep the fairy powder in our eyes forever.