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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • It’s so funny, because people act like open AI has a viable business model, but they’re loosing money even on their paying customers, even the highest tier of subscription. The product they’re selling really isn’t good enough to charge the price they would need to charge to pay for the operation costs, let along the training costs, and that’s with Microsoft giving them a bunch of servers for essentially free.

    Like, there isn’t a path to profitability for them, certainly not on this scale. They’re just praying that if they throw enough data in to a big enough model that somehow it will start doing something different than what it currently does. It’s not a plan, it’s a prayer, a cult.




  • it goes deeper than just “investors are greedy” though. Most people making these investment decisions are doing it at the behest of other people who have handed them their saving in exchange for returns. Those people aren’t privy to the nature of how money is getting invested and why, they hire someone else for that, the investors.

    The investors may be making short sighted, stupid decisions, but they’re doing it because they’re pursuing their own personal incentives, get a raise, a promotion, or just not get fired. The managers are doing the same. If they don’t do it, someone else will.

    It’s not the fault or moral failing of any one individual, but a fault in the system of incentives. A failure in the fundamental structure of how we decide how investments are made, in how we accumulate capital for investment.




  • At least with eggs and chicken, it’s mostly a collapse of the industrial farming system. This outbreak of bird flue has been going on since 2022 and has yet to really be contained or dealt with. Nearly 165 million chickens have died from H5N1 or been culled to slow the spread in the past 3 years. There have been 14 facilities with a million or more chickens totally wiped out since the start of the year.

    Weirdly, it’s had much less effect on “pasture raised” egg prices. Almost like the disease is a lot less of a problem if the chickens aren’t stressed and crammed shoulder to shoulder for easy transmission.







  • He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.

    Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.

    The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?

    That’s the actual question at stake at this point





  • The problem is that the AI branded software doesn’t run easily on old devices, unless you just stream it from one of their server farms. But they’re losing money every time they run one of these services for you, and the vast majority of people aren’t going to pay them a subscription for that.

    They’re trying to justify selling new devices with software now, not giving out software that can run on old devices. You gotta replace your 2017 laptop to run windows 11. Gotta get a new computer with an NPU to run AI models locally. But it’s happening again, users are not embracing these new AI features, let alone buying new devices just so they can use them.

    Much like wearables and VR headsets, the interest for these things is largely limited to enthusiasts spaces and isn’t translating to mass adoption. The average person doesn’t care about having their computer writing their email in to a limerick, they just want their email client to not freeze up and crash because they got an email with a weirdly formatted picture.