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A brief history of claims about AI and employment 2016: Hinton said radiologists would soon be replaced; they weren’t. He was hyping his tech, not basing it on careful analysis of the industry. 2026:

“Altman just described a future where consumption goes up by orders of magnitude while his customers are already asking how to bring the bill down. Those two things can't coexist for long.” 🦔Sam Altma

death of tokenmaxxing = potentially a very serious issue for all three big IPOs. 🚨 Sam Altman warns OpenAi and Anthropic are experiencing severe pullback on Ai spending as companies put significant re

Feels like a good time to resurface this one Mine and @jaswu_'s basic point: cheaper AI complicates the narrative for OpenAI and Anthropic when they eventually try to go public. Could also ripple acro

here’s why i think the situation may be dire: https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/2062369417372258652?s=20 ⚠️Why didn’t the hyperscalers wait until after the IPO in switching to pay-by-usage-charging? My

How does Elon get off on just lying straight up about the mainstream media? Can someone like BBC sue him for defamation? He claimed “Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd mil

I think @Levie is overstating the positive case for employment in the (near term) AI era but that most people have overstated the negative case, and that the truth is somewhere in between. Which is to

If we can’t trust Goldman on which IPO to buy… who can we trust? WeWork. Goldman Sachs marketed the real estate firm at an inflated 96 billion dollar tech valuation. The IPO was pulled after the prosp

Gary Marcus poses a hypothetical investment question asking followers to choose among three major IPOs, likely seeking comparative analysis of high-profile public offerings. The post invites discussio

Gary Marcus discusses investment strategy between potential OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs, likely weighing factors such as the companies' technological capabilities, market positioning, business models, a

If you – or your retirement funds - get taken for a ride on SpaceX blame hype guys like this, who don’t even mention that Goldman is the lead left on the deal. GOLDMAN SEES SPACEX AI REVENUE EXPLODING

Incredible. Goldman Sachs is the lead left on the SpaceX IPO, and somehow @ft fails to mention this in the headline below 🤦‍♂️ Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX’s AI revenue to surge 100 times by 2030 http

Is this too much to ask of AGI? Of course not. Can any current AI do this? Of course not. Offering a “damn, I’m truly impressed” award, for the first person or team to build a domain-general AI system

It seems like @GaryMarcus was right: the AI revenue models are imploding Sam Altman said AI budgeting has recently become a 'huge issue' for some companies, something that 'never came up' earlier this

Gary Marcus critiques a company's decision to pursue an IPO at a trillion-dollar valuation despite allegedly being on the brink of financial collapse. The post suggests this represents either audaciou

Kinda crazy (but typical, sadly) that some moron just claimed that I was “doomer” who said that all jobs would be replaced when I actually publicly predicted the opposite! Receipt, from my essay “25 p

Offering a “damn, I’m truly impressed” award, for the first person or team to build a domain-general AI system that can play @baldursgate3, start to finish. Will make the prize especially sweet if you

Offering @kevinroose $100,000 bet that no domain-general AI system can do this before his book comes out. (mimicking walkthroughs doesn’t count.) Offering a “damn, I’m truly impressed” award, for the

OpenAI is in deep, deep trouble They are low on capital relative to the massive cash they are burning and there is only so much capital in the world. No rational person would sell their Bitcoin or Nvi

This post likely discusses concerns about AI systems that merely imitate or reproduce existing walkthroughs and instructional content rather than demonstrating genuine understanding or original proble

shit is getting real Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and many others have signed a letter urging Congress to increase security on orders of synthetic nucleic acids - and the equipment needed

Starmer is right about this; would be ironic if the net of it was to keep Starmer in power for longer. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused Elon Musk of 'whipping up division' and interferi

THIS. I fully agree with @andrewyang, especially since GenAi leverages IP from a huge range of humans that were not adequately compensated. We should tax AI. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/06/04/andr

Three Predictions: 1. Some form of AI, probably neurosymbolic in nature, will come that is far more economical and data- and energy-efficient than LLMs, and it will make an absolute fortune. 2. LLMs,

This post likely references a humorous or critical meme about 'vibe coding'—a colloquial term for writing code based on intuition rather than rigorous testing or established best practices. The post a

Watch the goal post shift unfold in real time: AGI used to be doing anything a person, including an expert, could do, and by the end of the interview it’s not. I call this the AI bait and switch. As I

We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy. Our message to any tech company out there… if you want to buil

When you burn so much money you run out of options… Anthropic co-founder and President Daniela Amodei said the high cost of developing AI models is driving firms like hers to look to the public market

⚠️Why didn’t the hyperscalers wait until after the IPO in switching to pay-by-usage-charging? My guess is that *they literally could not afford to* —because it would bankrupt them. My reasoning: in “a

You know this is about Sam from line 1, even before you get to the picture. TL;DR: He’s going to keep bullshitting his way to IPO. This entire industry is based on an illusion. It deliberately mistake

“a train wreck’ - @edels0n Not worth half of what you will be paying – Morningstar At most, worth half of what you will be paying – Martin Peers, The Information “financial terrorism” - @egrefen Get y

Gary Marcus shared a statistic on X that he claims supports his earlier assertion that Elon Musk's most successful period may be in the past. The post likely presents data related to Musk's business p

A major consulting firm (Bain) has found that corporate returns on AI investments are underwhelming, following similar findings from MIT and McKinsey. This suggests that despite significant spending a

hard to make all these numbers square 🦔IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says AI is 'not a bubble' then estimates the industry needs 6 to 8 trillion in total capex for data center and chip buildout. To recover t

I was there, sitting next to Sam Altman in the US Senate, when he said this wonderful thing about artists and creators. It was a beautiful statement. In hindsight, though, I realized he was lying (und

This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus likely critiques the disparity in tax enforcement, suggesting that individual taxpayers face audit risks for cheating while wealthy individuals or corporations e

No one. No one in their right mind. SpaceX is losing money hand over fist, nearly 5bn last year. @SpaceX’s only profitable business is Starlink, but its new satellites can only be launched by Starship

Sam Altman swearing to tell the whole truth to the US Senate an hour or so before he lied his fanny off about caring about artists and creators and wanting them to get a fair shake. Hey OpenAI, when a

Suno - a company that trained on 'essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet', and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billi

This is really intellectually dishonest. I have not been arguing that LLM token prices are increasing (though the all you can eat buffet is over), I have been arguing the *opposite*, viz that they wil

What are you investing in? Hopium: Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on the stock market: 'If 45% of your market cap is AI and there's no profits yet, what are you investing in?' 'You're investing

when sam quotes the bible, you know things aren’t going well for OpenAI one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day: 'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the re

yes @GaryMarcus Like, is this based on ppl actually buying into Musk's truly unhinged pie-in-the-sky timelines for his fantastical sci-fi aspirations, which seem unlikely to even be technologically fe

You don’t need to be @garymarcus to know which way the wind blows. I would be way more bullish on AI if it actually worked and was actually replacing real humans at scale. Nothing is changing and we’r

Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-ipo-ai-sticker-shock-spending-usage?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_soc

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