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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • The full quote in the article is

    I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years

    So, Vance seems to be saying thati Stewart is above average but the problem is that he thinks he’s almost a genius. The “false arrogance” bit, though… So Stewart is only pretending to be arrogant and he’s actually a pretty down to earth guy who does not think he’s a genius? Overall pretty solid bromance thing going between those two!













  • Trump might be just a conman and he is 78; his main goal now might be just to live comfortably and stay out of jail for the few remaining minutes, days or years he will statistically survive his age and unhealthy lifestyle But Musk is a person with Big Goals, he’s selling actual stuff; and the type of stuff he sells happens to be very sensitive to the political climate.

    Some of Musk’s products are so big and expensive that his target customers are whole Countries: Space rockets, Satellite communication systems, Giga factories. Here’s Musk peddling his stuff to Italy’s far-right government. Other Musk products, like Tesla EVs, are sensitive to governments’ policies on green transition, incentives, protectionism from China’s cheaper (and by now better) EVs.

    So far, billionaire businessman were mostly keeping a friendly, progressive mask and were leaving it to their lobbyists to do the dirty work of convincing or bribing politicians. Musk is by all accounts a prima donna and certified megalomaniac and likes to take these matters into his own hands. He decided that a little push here and there to whoever is in power right now takes too long and that it’s more effective to just control the whole thing directly. He had a spectacular success with the far right and Trump, so he’s now repeating the same playbook in other countries (and other billionaire pals, like Zuckerberg, are starting to follow suit too, so they can finally stop pretending they are real human beings).

    The UK example of Musk pushing Brexiter Farage and then dumping him because not far-right enough for his taste is almost comical. And here’s Musk endorsing far-right AfD in Germany.



  • Goldman Sachs, quote from the article:

    “AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.”

    Generative AI can indeed do impressive things from a technical standpoint, but not enough revenue has been generated so far to offset the enormous costs. Like for other technologies, It might just take time (remember how many billions Amazon burned before turning into a cash-generating machine? And Uber has also just started turning some profit) + a great deal of enshittification once more people and companies are dependent. Or it might just be a bubble.

    As humans we’re not great at predicting these things including of course me. My personal prediction? A few companies will make money, especially the ones that start selling AI as a service at increasingly high costs, many others will fail and both AI enthusiasts and detractors will claim they were right all along.