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> this is being driven entirely by spite not insight

Zitron is a PR dude who runs a PR company and has never had any experience, training, or meaningful contributions to technology. He found twitter success posting shittakes about AI, ran that into a podcast, and now he's in the FT. Zitron is a professional contrarian and PR man, saying "AI sucks" has found him fame and success.

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Meanwhile, he's done deeper analysis than anyone else I've seen on financial statements and actual costs from AI for the large players and I absolutely don't think he's wrong.

Unfortunately, this seems to strike a chord for you.

When confronted with an actual analysis from a technical person, he immediately resorts to insults and hand-waving: https://old.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1n2c12q/arti...

Not unlike his blog posts and podcasts. Spiteful insult-laden rants (he even admits to this on occasion). If you're looking for a financial analysis on AI, I'd literally look anywhere else.

To be fair that actual analysis had a lot of assumptions and zitron was pointing out the hand waviness of those assumptions.

Super weird to say that someone is hand waving when what they are doing is pointing out that an argument is hand wavy.

Martin Alderson didn't comment on anyone's "asshole" or cite tabloid-level hearsay as an accurate source of information.

And yet, he’s mostly right about the current AI landscape.

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