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therobots927on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

Maybe it’s not a binary? Maybe managers should both be able to delegate AND occasionally put in the effort to learn how things are working on the ground? Otherwise after about 3 layers of hierarchy all of the signal is gone in a massive game of telephone, leaving high level executives completely clueless.

therobots927on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

They were conned because there’s been a massive top down propaganda campaign at the highest levels of corporate America that GAI is right around the corner.

therobots927on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

They owe George orwell’s estate a royalty for this idea.

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

Currently in fashion isn’t exactly a confidence booster heading into multiple rate hikes and a pressure on hyperscalers to cut capex.

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

Well that’s great to hear that they are saying a non-GAAP profit metric is greater than zero.

I agree it’s less of a dumpster fire than OAI but that’s not a very hard bar to clear.

therobots927on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

Human mathematicians could become “priests to oracles.”

This is a decidedly anti-enlightenment statement.

therobots927on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

So… more peer review backlog. That sounds fun. Oh, you want someone to review your paper, Mr phd in mathematics with 20 years of experience? Get in line behind chatGPT.

therobots927on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

Tests only work for a limited set of programming verification. In many cases you don’t actually know what the output for any given input should be, so there’s no way of verifying the AI-generated code. You just kind of have to trust it. The only exception I can think of is robotics and quantitative trading. Which have already been extensively utilizing AI.

therobots927on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

It’s a well known problem in higher mathematics that even if you’ve solved a problem, often the proofs are incredibly long and complex and require an extensive amount of time spent by peers to review it.

It would be great if someone could explain to me how AI improves this situation. Even if AI thinks it’s solved a problem, unless the proof is incredibly efficient and well explained, it will be difficult to verify the correctness. One hallucination in 300 steps of logic is enough to destroy the entire proof.

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

You know anthropics numbers? They still haven’t filed either.

therobots927on The AI backlash is only getting started

You nailed it

therobots927on The AI backlash is only getting started

Ok thanks for the nitpick bud. It’s the last item in a priority first list but go off dude

therobots927on The AI backlash is only getting started

I think a lot of it is actually the tech for a lot of reasons:

0. No one wants a datacenter in their backyard or hooked up to the grid while the electricity burden is carried by households. People are afraid of losing their property values and being unable to move away if a DC is built nearby - effectively being trapped there. People in Memphis are breathing in gas fumes from the XAI datacenter there. There are concerns about corrosion byproducts making its way into the aquifers from DC waste water. If DC construction takes the cheap option no sound insulation is installed and people can’t sleep and some even lose their hearing: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2026-04-2...

People are pissed that towns and cities are bypassing public approval to placate corporate builders.

1. People have been told to fear for their jobs

2. Many people believe labs have stolen vast amounts of intellectual property

3. Engineers are being pressured to use AI and told they “aren’t prompting right” if/when it doesn’t work for their use case

I can go on. But I actually think the majority of the backlash has nothing to do with stock valuations.

therobots927on The unbearable cheapness of open weight models

Where are you getting 30% from

therobots927on The unbearable cheapness of open weight models

I didn’t make a claim. The parent explicitly said it was a misconception that inference is not profitable.

No one knows if it’s profitable or not so we’re left to speculate.

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

I can’t wait. It’s gonna be an absolute blast to watch.

therobots927on The unbearable cheapness of open weight models

Are you an anthropic insider or something? Because if you are you should delete this comment. If you aren’t then you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

therobots927on OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

You said: “ There is zero evidence of any causal link between him and this. The obvious one, instead, is SpaceX's volatility.”

What exactly do you think “volatility” means in this context?

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

How do you explain OAI spending $6B on “sales and marketing” in a year. More than Coca Cola?

I think it’s reasonable to draw the conclusion that they are folding inference subsidies (for both paying and non-paying users) under this category. Frankly I think occam’s razor demands it because where else would all that money have gone? Fancy trips for enterprise clients?

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

SpaceX demonstrated that the public markets have a limited tolerance for a multi-trillion dollar company that doesn’t make any money.

Ed’s leaks demonstrated that OAI doesn’t make money (even on inference).

Put these two together and I think the conclusion is pretty obvious.

therobots927on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

OAI canceling an IPO this year a week after he released their dogshit financials is not a coincidence and yes it does vindicate him.

He’s not shorting the market or calling a top. He’s saying that the bubble will pop because the underlying business model is and always will have a NEGATIVE ROI. Unless you’re speculating on semiconductor stocks the difference is irrelevant.

Do me a favor and tell me how much of the 1,000,000,000,000 spent / committed to a datacenter buildout has been returned to shareholders / creditors?

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therobots927on Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

Which is a far cry away from the “free market” we see in the west.

Wild how I got downvoted for stating a pretty obvious fact. Long term planning and self sacrifice in the interest of long term community benefit which transfers to one’s future self / progeny is actually very similar to communism.

Fuck me I guess

therobots927on Israel's operation to turn Hezbollah's beepers into bombs – exclusive

I’m pretty sure the people who are keeping thousands of kids under 10 in maximum security prisons where they are raped by dogs are the good guys here. You’re right!

Also bombing Gaza into oblivion is clearly not terorism either

therobots927on Israel's operation to turn Hezbollah's beepers into bombs – exclusive

No one cares how smart Israel thinks they are. Or has any interest in watching them pat themselves on the back for what amounts to a massive distributed terrorist attack. And it would be labeled as such if Muslims did it.

therobots927on Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

Sounds like communism to me.

therobots927on Americans beware: markets can be out of sync with reality

This time is different, though. Self improving AI = infinite money.

therobots927on IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media

They’re just outsourcing their censorship.

therobots927on IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media

TIL running over people with bulldozers and sexual torture and wanton slaughter of children are “misdeeds”.

I would hate to know what they consider a war crime.

therobots927on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

HBO’s Silicon Valley looks more and more like a documentary every day. The out of touch antics of Gavin Belson or Peter Gregory are fucking spot on.