It’s just managers who have long since abandoned retaining any practical knowledge in the field, if they even had any at all, and pushing what their boss wants to hear and what they have all convinced themselves to be true in the world of management and linkedin lunatics, because that’s how you get promoted in management. Because everyone from the top down is all in on AI because those at a high enough level are all chasing a seat at the table of the ownership class holding the keys to the AI kingdom and the stock valuations that come from it.

So if their company or their company’s AI model or AI usage makes them an important client of someone that the stock market has deemed important, or if they think their company is the special chosen one that will figure out the secret to AI productivity that none of the other thousands of companies will, that is all that matters. They know nothing about its actual usage, just that more tokens = more usage and therefore must be good, because more usage means their company stock goes up and it that means a bigger golden parachute.

The problem is that either they are genuinely ignorant of the fact that it is a bubble, or they believe that they will be able to time their exit right. The worst part is that a lot of them will, but all the people and the organizational chaos that the burst of the bubble will create that they are knowingly contributing to, well that’s some other sucker’s problem. And that someone else is everyone, whose power and water bills will go up, whose ram and hard drive prices go up, and whose 401k will tank when the bubble collapses.

I have to leave this thread.

Is my enemy’s enemy.

What we really need is for China to send someone to Mars first, and suddenly 3% of GDP will be ploughed into NASA’s budget overnight.

Not before partitioning the country by religion which would kill a few million and displace tens of millions, and which would lead to multiple wars and the violent repression of bangladesh as it sought independence. It would also facilitate the creation of two more nuclear armed states and perpetuate the religious tension and conflict that still persists to this day…