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Does this mean they will run everything through an LLM? Besides the cost, does this mean the whole business will become non-deterministic? I can see using LLM to produce code that the business runs on (and can be tested), but running the business directly on an LLM seems to be asking for massive trouble.

I definitely feel AI data centers should mainly be built next to the houses of the big tech CEOs. I don't know prevalent this is, but I have seen videos of people living next data centers and the noise was just unbearable. It's also not ok that utility prices are rising because of data centers.

Exactly. It's hard to get excited about a technology that in theory could provide huge benefits for all, but because of our economic system there is a good chance that the majority of the benefits go to a few and many people will actually be losers.

I am believing more that with advances in AI and then also robotics the capitalist system as we know it will break. The question is what comes next.

"cheerleads when one party does it and castigates when the other does"

I always ask partisan people "what would you think about this issue if the other guys were in power". It's pretty sad how it has become normalized to find the same thing ok when one party is in power and being really angry about it when the other party is in power. Unfortunately Krugman can't resist that temptation either.

I am not educated enough to criticize what was done during COVID and whether inflation could have been avoided. But the way Krugman tried to explain away the effects of inflation in the NYT almost every week wasn't right. The whole "vibecession" thing was extremely condescending from a multimillionaire like Krugman towards lower incomes and probably one of the reasons why the democrats lost.

"and you probably have more reasons than what you're letting on."

Can you enlighten me on these reasons?

I would be more willing to listen to Krugman if he hadn’t spent so much effort during the Biden administration to find reasons why inflation wasn’t bad but just a “vibecession”.

The only responsibility these guys are feeling is to make trillions. Billions is not enough anymore. Maybe Meta is the most honest of them because they don't even pretend.

I know people who have vending machines. It's a very nice business but like almost everything else you need experience to do it right. It's not easy to find good locations, you need to stock the right stuff, you need to deal with repairs. It's not as hands off as you may think.

There is definitely much more happening than what american media tells us. When I visit family in Germany they are all doing pretty well. There are problems with expensive housing but that seems to be a worldwide problem.

But there definitely seems to be a lack of ambition in business and technology. For example, the car companies seem to be more coasting on past successes vs pushing things forward. Europe is also not trying much to compete in AI.

The real scandal is the prices on the menu she posted.

What do they test? In general, I don't understand the whole "AI safety" stuff. What are the scenarios we need to be protected from and how is this going to be accomplished?

"I think chat is a great entry point for many experiences. The approachability and flexibility are unmatched."

Just wait a few months/years and then some smartasses will come with a novel approach nobody ever has thought of before. Let's call it "context menus". They will give rapid access to the most used features without the tedious typing.

Until MacOS 27 the text context menus had items "Writing Tools" and "Proofread". Quick and efficient. MacOS has dropped these items and replaced with "Ask Siri". Now I have to type "proofread" every time and pray Siri agrees that it should proofread the selected text. Once it has done that, do i have to type "replace"? I don't even know.

There is a reason why UIs became popular. Command lines are fine but hard to discover and tedious to use. With AI it's even worse. You can't know for sure the AI interprets your commands in the way you intended.

The pause is probably rehearsed. I don't think anything Jobs did in public wasn't calculated.

My mom is older than any reactor that’s used for power generation.

France doesn't have an answer for decommissioning costs.

"California has those services but they tend to be only funded to a fraction of the need."

Sometimes it feels like they are well funded but the people running the programs live in a (very expensive) dream world that has no connection to the actual need.

" even a trillion dollar company, "

Exactly, not "even", these huge companies have to squeeze money out of everything. To keep their growth rates up, they have to make bigger and bigger swings.

" less innovation"

"Innovation" as in marketing expenses and stock buybacks?

I am good with getting rid of B).

A) can probably only be fixed with regulation. Why would hospitals and insurance otherwise make prices transparent? The current state serves them really well.

The only thing the frontier labs are interested in is their trillion dollar IPOs.

There is no problem in software development processes that can't be solved with an additional layer of process.

The word “never” is a dangerous word. In my lifetime I have seen it many times where something was supposed to “never” happen only to see it happen a few years later.

"The Chicago school hadn't yet convinced everyone that fiduciary responsibility to shareholders was the prime concern of the C-suite and the board either. Those were economists, not MBAs."

Agreed. I think "MBA" is often used as a synonym for "person who views a business as a bunch of numbers that need to exploited for maximum profit"

Us techies have taken the fun out of a lot of professions with the tools we are developing and selling. I guess it was only a matter of time until we killed the fun in our profession.

It's the MBA mindset. I think about it in simplified way that in the past a lot of businesses weren't run mainly for profit. So a plumber focused on plumbing first and set prices to have enough profit to live. Once the MBA/PE mindset comes in, they think about maximum profit first and plumbing is just a secondary thing. I have seen that with dentists, vets and many contractors.

"but this information was already readily available to bad actors e.g. via Lexis Nexis."

My ex had access to Lexis Nexis and I was always shocked how much information about people they have.

Investors benefit from company gains despite not having encouraged or mandated some decisions that enabled the gains. So it makes sense that they also get exposure to the downside.

When I see stuff like this, I am really starting to be concerned. How long will it take until AI runs something security critical autonomously? The temptation to save costs by doing this will be too much in the long run.

They have the same psychology the leaders of communist states had. It's a constant litany of self-congratulation and tone-deafness that has no connection to reality.