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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • You could have made this same analysis in 2000 and it would be equally valid.

    Yes, the business world is willing to pay big bucks to reduce labour costs and that business case is solid.

    But we already see that success is not determined by the size of the model, but by the data and providing and processing that data in a smart way to the AI. And the companies that are successful in this area are model agnostic. They can, and will, switch to cheaper to run models that are good enough for their purposes.

    So the dogma that whoever has the biggest model wins, just doesn’t apply. AI is already hitting diminishing returns.

    Once the investment money pumping the hype is gone, there will be a glut of capacity and a heavy price competition, which will drive down margins.






  • Genocide is not just about numbers. If the Bosnian genocide qualifies as a genocide, then Gaza definitely qualifies too.

    In my view, the Gaza genocide is also worse than the Holocaust in many respects. For one, most Germans didn’t know about, or support, genocide, nor did the Nazi’s have any kind of democratic mandate.

    Whereas in the US and Israel, this is the first time a democracy is committing genocide with popular support.

    By all accounts, China isn’t killing Uyghurs, but re-educating them.





  • To know how exactly it works, we’d need to know details that aren’t public.

    But just speculating, if the creditors value the combined xAI+X higher than just X, then there is room to transfer the loan to the new company and away from Tesla.

    But whatever the details are, Elon isn’t an idiot when it comes to money. He definitely has advisors who cooked up the optimal way to profit from the AI hype.

    And the essence of that is that Tesla shareholders will be left holding the bag, while Elon utiizes X/xAI to capitalize on the hype.


  • I have only seen them online. I figure they are trolls or bots.

    But I do think that China has a better human rights record than the US and Israel.

    They are still evil in how they treat Uyghurs, Tibetans and democracy activists. They definitely use torture on dissidents.

    But it’s not that difficult to be better than slavery, genocide, war and colonialism. And the US and Israel also use torture.

    So maybe I am the tankie that OP refers to.







  • I realize you are confused.

    You don’t appreciate that having 200 shares of a fund today, at today’s valuation, is better than having 100 shares of that same fund today.

    Because that’s the point I clearly made, which you ignored and constructed some kind of straw man on which you had your little Don Quixote party on.

    And if you really want to understand the philosophy, the point is to take profits prudently and buy bargains when they present themselves. And that’s very much possible without exactly timing the market.

    I have never sold at the top and never bought at the bottom. I have no crystal ball to time the market, but I have made a lot of profit buying low and selling high.