fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

he's raking money now, but his continued success depends on his customers turning profit from ai, and buying his chips forever, and what cannot continue has to stop. vc money can't paper over this financial burn pit indefinitely

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 245 points 4 months ago (20 children)

acab includes paw patrol

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 47 points 4 months ago (10 children)

hey jensen, if ai can do a n y t h i n g, then why can't it turn profit?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

they do, and their interns fix it afterwards

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

lmao. i heard about a case of a fella who got admitted for studies at faculty of chemistry (UJ) but he didn't want to go there, but also didn't cancel that or anything. dude was completely clueless, failed every single class and got kicked out at the first opportunity (after first semester exams) he was pressured by parents to study something, anything, but couldn't get interested in any subject. i sense many such cases in future

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

... then what, get kicked out after first semester?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you know maybe it's a good thing that people can't sleep on ceiling, everybody's rent would double

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it's a bit like crude oil. lumber cut up to what standards? or maybe chipboard or veneer or paper or cellulose fiber (used in many things including artillery propellant, hot commodity lately)? or maybe some form of chemically modified cellulose or maybe something else? then do you have industrial capacity and logistics for that? what if customer from egypt won't accept fiberboard made to an argentinian standard, that you made for an argentinian customer that changed mind or the other way around? canada is a rich country, can you make it competitive? sometimes it works. i heard of a case of company that bought logs from finland, processed them in poland into fiberboard and sold them, at least once, to a customer in tanzania

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

if it's for paper or chipboard, entire log can be used (waste is fuel for process heat/power)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

that's gotta be $3500/mo just for it

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

the thing is in specific ways much older, i think that if you want to stretch it the first people you can credibly accuse of being ai bros were alchemists trying to cook homunculus, or trying to get infinite knowledge out if philosophers' stone

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