You mean the guy that has in his bio "YC and VC backed founder" and has made multiple posts in the last couple months dismissing different negative thoughts about AI? Yeah that guy probably doesn't have significant funds tied up in the success of AI.

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seizethecheese 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t, actually, unless you call index funds “tied up”.

To be honest, it’s really distasteful to make a high level comment about this article then have people rush to attack me personally. This is the mentality of a mob.

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Brian_K_White 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One thing this characterization is not is honest.

	▲	seizethecheese 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What part is not honest?

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Barrin92 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

in this case a more appropriate term for the mob is "the people" because one defining dynamic of the rollout of this technology is that a minority of people seem to be extremely invested to shove it into the faces of a majority of people who don't want it, and then claim that they are visionaries and everyone else is 'the mob'.

Just like with Mark Zuckerberg's "Metaverse" we're now in a post-market vanity economy where not consumer demand but increasingly desperate founders, investors and gurus are trying to justify their valuations by doling out products for free and shoving their AI services into everything to justify the tens of billions they dumped into it

I'm sorry that some people's pension funds, startup funding and increasingly the entire American economy rests on this collective delusion but it's not really most people's problem

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shimman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It becomes insulting when they think we're this foolish.