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> Don't have a subscription to wsj.

An ironic analogy sort of, once media started hiding behind a paywall, I just stopped reading them rather than paying. Same with LLMs - usable if cheap/free.


They are selling shovels, not mining gold themselves though.

So it's more like selling a derivative on a promise to steal open source for you in a useful way.


By an order of magnitude.

Besides, the Linux app is available for Windows - no need to run it bare-metal: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Depends on how much control you want over the hardware. I find that laptop/desktop windows installs tend to force reboots when it might not be convenient and of course there the issue of unreliable software updates.

I'd much rather have Linux be in control of the hardware and run Windows as a VM on it.


"...when a game project ends..." ...regardless of whether the game is successful or not. On the upside, you get freedom to create stuff like Concord and Highguard.

If companies do not like this, paying a percent of profit instead of salaries is always an option.

(ah s** here we go again by the way).


"Pay transparency" is only 1 of the 3 main initial changes the workers mention, and the amount they take home is only part of that. Besides, with schemes like % of profit there is a peculiar tendency for profit to disappear as revenue goes up (e.g. "hollywood accounting" type things).

> paying a percent of profit instead of salaries is always an option

lol no.


What about shipping tweets and blog posts? Also team demos "how to use AI for basic imaginary hello-world scenarios".

Ah yes, the "fourth industrial revolution".

Abusing a document mark up language and a scripting language to make "UI" is not a treasure of a skill. We can move on.

Once OpenAI/Anthropic IPO, until then it's not a perfect analogy.

I'm all for shitting on hyperscalers, but let's not compare LLMs to tulips/NFTs.

This time is different because we have the earnings...while completely ignoring the return on capital...is nothing more than a CNBC meme...

Why not? After all tulips are quite pleasant when the message about them isn't "HODL." You could hardly claim they have no value, only that their perceived value had come to be dominated by groupthink.

Sure sounds like LLMs to me. A fine technology. It exists. Like tulips, it will exist for quite a while to come. So maybe people could stop "betting on it" like it's a polymarket prediction on the second coming of Christ, eh? LLMs, like Christ and Tulips, do not require you to bet on them.


South sea bubble covers those.

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