TLDR on what’s happening in #ai for anyone out of the loop:

>sam altman shows up

>hello we are openai (is closed source btw) and we will be building ai

>sam: we need BILLIONS in funding!

>everyone: ok here you go sam

>sam: wait really?

>everyone: yea..? didn’t you say you need billions of dollars in funding?

>sam: billions? sorry I misspoke. I meant TRILLIONS!

>everyone: that’s a lot but ok

>sam: ai is the new industrial revolution! COMPUTE is the new OIL!

>nvidia becomes the most valuable company on earth. every single employee is a MILLIONAIRE now, including the interns

>openai keeps jacking up their prices and says “we are actually LOSING money because compute costs so much! we are bumping up the pricing for our gpt-abc123 model to $10,000 per prompt”

>some random chinese quants: we ain’t paying that much let’s just build our own model

>chinese quants literally build AGI (DeepSeek) as their side project with $70 in funding and a bag of chips, coworking out of a sweatshop

>american ai companies: these chinese guys are capping this is a ploy by the CCP to destroy the american economy!

>deepseek releases papers and benchmarks proving their model is better than openai’s

>american ai companies in total meltdown

The bubble has popped.

If you’re in ai, it’s OVER. Leave while you can! All the speculative institutional capital is going to rotate back to the only speculative technology that has stood the test of time: crypto.

I was a full-on NPC in 2020, without the badass network of friends I have now (thanks to #Nostr), or the brainpower to critical-think I have now (thanks to #CarnivoreDiet)

Being from the bluest town, in the bluest state, with a degree from the bluest college, 100% of my network at the time was radically pro-vaccine.

My only possible chance of breaking through the noise in that soy state was to stumble across a stray contrarian podcast, a well-written blog post, or even a meme that resonated and presented the opposing side in a well-articulated format.

But I didn't see any of that either, because it was all censored, blocked, and banned from the feeds of anyone who didn't know where to specifically look for it, or have a based network of sovereign individuals already built out beforehand.

I took THREE of the poison jabs as a result, before finally listening to enough #Bitcoin podcasts to acquire the 80 IQ points required to start researching from first-principles, and begin thinking for myself for the first time in my life, eventually leading to me swearing off all vaccines in early 2022.

Bitcoiners rock; they saved me from going much deeper into the dark hole of fiat health/fiat world.

Fuck all of these Big Tech oligarchs who folded like lawn chairs when the world needed an open dialogue more than ever before. I will never make the mistake of trusting them ever again.

If Elon lies about games, he probably lies about everything. I would not be surprised if he has other people run his companies but NDA so he takes credit. Like he records meetings or something and someone whispers in his ear what to say 🤣

Crazy? Yeah. But would not be surprising.