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agsgfon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

And they hate the Internet more than Gen-X.

agsgfon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Catchy and ironic phrasing of "the financial fraudsters ruining Bear Stearns".

It seems unambiguous in this context.

agsgfon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

Bear Stearns was the first bank to collapse in the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage crisis, also known as the housing bubble.

That bubble was also manufactured by reckless financial engineers.

And those who warned early were ridiculed:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/who-is-nouri...

"When he spoke of an impending housing crash at the International Monetary Fund that year, the audience chuckled, the New York Times reported."

'"He sounded like a madman in 2006," IMF economist Prakash Loungani told the Times, after inviting Roubini to the IMF conference that year. "He was a prophet when he returned in 2007."'