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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble


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A fun aside: On March 30 2015, Kevin Roose wrote a piece for New York Magazine about the cloud compute wars, in which he claimed that, and I quote, "there's no reason to suspect that Amazon would ever need to raise prices on AWS, or turn the fabled "profit switch" that pundits have been speculating about for years." The New York Times claims everybody is using AI for everything — a blatant lie, one that exists to prop up an industry that has categorically failed to deliver the innovations or returns that it promised, yet still receives glowing press from a tech and business media that refuses to look outside and see that the sky is red and frogs are landing everywhere. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Andy Jassy have overseen a needless, wasteful and destructive economic force that will harm our markets (and by a larger extension our economy) and the tech industry writ large, and when this is over, they must be held accountable.

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