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> The money they're burning is not yours or mine. They're institutional investor money. So, again, who cares?

This is not happening in a vacuum. A lot of index funds and retirement accounts have bought into AI and AI adjacent companies, many with stakes in OpenAI. If OpenAI keels over, even when private, it will affect a lot of americans. If they IPO, it's even worse.


Index funds are based on a variety of tech stock. This whole "if they keel over" has been beaten to death ever since Tesla is surpassed Ford in market cap. And then Twitter was bought. No market crash. There will be some market corrections, but nothing be alarmed about.

Because it's futile. This person was banned before, this is their new account.

> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.

You must be new here. No, that's not how this work. If you are able to produce the same amount of work by midday Monday we expect you to increase the amount of output in the current system by 14 x. And the owners pocket the financial gain from this productivity delta and you should be happy you even have a job.


> And the owners pocket the financial gain from this productivity delta and you should be happy you even have a job.

This is why it’s prudent for more of us to figure out a way to be our own owners.


What a community of temporarily embarrassed unicorns we have here.


FYI, you've already lost with this mindset! I know you don't consider yourself a loser :P


> I am aware of all the code being written.

Define 'aware'. The volume of code for a feature/system to make it worth using a more complex workflow such as this one, is definitely larger than what a human can even briefly review and build a mental model about the inner workings within a reasonable amount of time. Reasonable meaning not considerable delaying the process. When deadlines loom and management adds pressure, this 'awareness' is the first thing that goes out the window.


> I'm a happy TurboTax customer for over 25 years.

I've been using TurboTax for about 20 years now and I am not happy. I hate it with a passion, it has more dark patterns than even LinkedIn and with my basic W-2 tax return with HDHP I managed to hit all their 'know issues' 4 years in a row. They of course offered me to upgrade several times during the 'work flow' to make up for it.

I loathe the existence of Intuit and I still have some hope that a future administration will kill it by having the IRS implement a basic digital product for federal tax filing for the 90% of people who use the standard deduction. Intuit should not exist in its current form in any civilized country, it is a form of cancer which only exists because our politicians are a bunch of greedy fucks.


I just file late every year and there are never any upgrades.


Don't bother, you are replying to a notorious Russian troll


> https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/ai-ultra...

It's been a while since I visited any google pages and I'm shocked how insipid and soulless their UX still is.


I quit smoking a long time ago but if there's one thing I'm missing / craving is a hot cup of coffee with two cigarettes on an empty stomach during cold winter mornings... Fuuuuck.


Not sure why they classified this language as 'old English'. It's so far removed (from all perspectives including a fundamentally different grammatical system) from modern or even early modern English, it's a completely different language altogether. I find "old English" to be a highly a misleading name as it implies continuity that simply isn't there in the same way it exists in say German.


> I'm no fun of Stalin

I would argue for the generality of this characterization


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