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@WandererUber @teto weird framing on the website. yeah, investing in the future is not 'profitable' the second you do it. amazon itself took 10 years from founding to make any profit. was it a book bubble?

either way, there's plenty of profitable AI companies, for example everyone who's running commodity inference for open models.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO THE NIGGERKILLING AND THAT SOMEBODY IS THE ARBITER AND THE ULTIMATE LESSOR OF ALL PROPERTY

WHEN MORE THAN ONE ACTOR DO THE NIGGERKILLING IN THE SAME JURISDICTION, I.E. THERE IS NO WESTPHALIAN STATE, THE STATE BECOMES THIS THEORETICAL POINT OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NIGGERKILLERS IN THE REGION, WHERE CULTURAL ACCOMODATIONS ARE MADE FOR TRIBAL JUSTICE, CORPORATE COPS, FEUDAL RELATIONS, AND SO ON
WE HAVE A SYSTEM OF OLIGARCHICAL CONSENSUS THAT THEN DRIVES A CENTRAL MACHINE OF VIOLENT ACTION, BUT THERE ARE NO TRIGGERPULLERS LOYAL TO ZUCKERBERG SPECIFICALLY.

IF THE CONSENSUS BEHIND THE SCENES WAS FOR EXAMPLE THAT ZUCK HAS TO GO AND META NEEDS TO BE BROKEN UP UNDER ANTITRUST, THE POLITICIANS AND LAWS TO ACCOMPLISH THAT WOULD BE MOVED INTO PLACE AND ZUCK'S OPINION WOULDN'T MATTER MUCH
it's hard to analyze this properly. Nvidia has put a lot of money into AI because the market has shown demand for those chips.

They of course have been developing models for a while, I think I remember reading something a while ago about them making one that generated realistic faces?

But if there was no demand, they would just still be making normal graphics hardware, I imagine.
WELL IT'S AN IS-OUGHT THING.
FOR HOPPEAN PATCHWORK THESE GUYS WOULD NEED TO EXERCISE SOME POWER ARBITRATION OF THEIR OWN, BECOMING ACTUAL FEUDALS OR ACTUAL LIECHTENSTEINS.
AS THINGS ARE NOW THEY'RE LIKE CELEBRITIES SLASH GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS HIRED TO MANAGE A CHUNK OF THE ECONOMY BUT ULTIMATELY REMOVABLE.
I MEAN, LITERALLY!

"OUR STATE IS THE REGIONAL MONOPOLY ON VIOLENT FORCE! NOBODY GETS TO JUST KILL PEOPLE WHO PISS THEM OFF... EXCEPT THIS SPECIAL PRECIOUS RACE OF NIGGLY WIGGLY RASCALS WE HAD DEPUTIZED TO REPRESS OUR NATIVE POPULATION :) GO AHEAD, TYRONE, "BUST A CAP" IN JAMAL'S "ASS". NO NO IT'S FINE. OHHH THE TRAGEDY OF INNER CITY VIOLENCE, IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO THAT WE WOULDN'T DEFINE AS RACISM AND STOP DOING! IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME MONOPOLY ON VIOLENT FORCE OVER THESE LITTLE CRITTERS!"
I MEAN, LITERALLY!

"OUR STATE IS THE REGIONAL MONOPOLY ON VIOLENT FORCE! NOBODY GETS TO JUST KILL PEOPLE WHO PISS THEM OFF... EXCEPT THIS SPECIAL PRECIOUS RACE OF NIGGLY WIGGLY RASCALS WE HAD DEPUTIZED TO REPRESS OUR NATIVE POPULATION :) GO AHEAD, TYRONE, "BUST A CAP" IN JAMAL'S "ASS". NO NO IT'S FINE. OHHH THE TRAGEDY OF INNER CITY VIOLENCE, IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO THAT WE WOULDN'T DEFINE AS RACISM AND STOP DOING! IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME MONOPOLY ON VIOLENT FORCE OVER THESE LITTLE CRITTERS!"