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July 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Listen to Sam Altman, Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai speak - they sound like idiots! People conflate "difficult to understand" with "intelligent" because they're scared of the powerful, yet the reality is the men ruining the tech industry are dimwits!
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“But Ed!” you cry. “You can’t just call Sam Altman an idiot! He isn’t stupid! He runs a big company, and he’s super successful!” My counter to that is, first, yes I can, I’m doing it right now. Second, if Altman didn’t want to be called stupid, he wouldn’t say stupid shit with a straight face to a massive global audience. My favourite part of the interview is near the beginning: Jack Altman: So reasoning will lead to science going faster or just new stuff or both? Sam Altman: I mean, you already hear scientists who say they’re faster with AI, like we don’t have AI maybe autonomously doing science, but if a human scientist is three times as productive using o3, that’s still a pretty big deal. Jack Altman: Yeah Sam Altman: And then as that keeps going and the AI can autonomously do some science, figure out novel physics- Jack Altman: Is it all that happening as a copilot right now? [Editor’s note: this is exactly what Jack Altman says] Sam Altman: Yeah there’s definitely not… You definitely can’t go say like, “Hey ChatGPT, figure out new physics” and expect that to work. So I think it is currently copilot-like, but I’ve heard like, anecdotal reports from biologists where it’s like, “wow, it really did figure out an idea. I had to develop it, but it made a fundamental leap.” This is a nonsensical conversation, and both of them sound very, very stupid. “So, is this going to make new science or make science faster?” “Yeah, I hear scientists are using AI to go faster [CITATION NEEDED], but if a human scientist goes three times faster [CITATION NEEDED] using my model that would be good. Also I heard from a guy that he heard a guy who did biology who said ‘this helped.’” Phenomenal! Give this guy $40 billion or more dollars every year until he creates a superintelligence, that’ll fucking work. Here are some other incredible quotes from the genius mind of Sam Altman: “You hear these stories of people who use AI to do market research and figure out new products and then email some manufacturer and get some dumb thing made and sell it on Amazon and run ads…there are people that have actually figured out at small scale in the most boring ways possible how to put a dollar into AI and get the AI to run a toy business, but it’s actually working. So that’ll climb the gradient.” You may wonder if “the gradient” is mentioned at some point elsewhere. It is not. “So every year before the last maybe up until last year I would’ve said, ‘hey I think this is going to go really far,’ but it still seems like there’s a lot we’ve got to figure out.” “If something goes wrong, I would say somehow it’s that we build legitimate super intelligence and it doesn’t make the world much better, it doesn’t change things as much as it sounds like it should.” “So yeah, I think the relativistic point is really important, but to us, our jobs feel incredibly important and stressful and satisfying. And if we're all just making better entertainment for each other in the future, maybe that's kind of what at least one of us is doing right now.” This is gobbledygook, nonsense, bullshit peddled by a guy who has only the most tangential understanding of the technology his company is building. Every single interview with Sam Altman is like this, every single one, ever since he became a prominent tech investor and founder. Without fail. And the sad part is that Altman isn’t alone in this. Sundar Pichai, when asked one of Nilay Patel’s patented 100-word-plus-questions about Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s new (and likely heavily delayed) hardware startup: I think AI is going to be bigger than the internet. There are going to be companies, products, and categories created that we aren’t aware of today. I think the future looks exciting. I think there’s a lot of opportun… While I think Pichai is likely a little smarter than Altman, in the same way that Satya Nadella is a little smarter than Pichai, and in the same way that a golden retriever is smarter than a chihuahua. That said, none of these men are superintelligences, nor, when pressed, do they ever seem to have any actual answers. Let’s see what Satya Nadella of Microsoft answered when asked about how exactly it’s going to get to (and I paraphrase Dwarkesh Patel’s mealy-mouthed question) $130 billion in AI revenue “through AGI”: The way I come at it, Dwarkesh, it's a great question because at some level, if you're going to have this explosion, abundance, whatever, commodity of intelligence available, the first thing we have to observe is GDP growth. Before I get to what Microsoft's revenue will look like, there's only one governor in all of this. This is where we get a little bit ahead of ourselves with all this AGI hype. Remember the developed world, which is what? 2% growth and if you adjust for inflation it’s zero? So in 2025, as we sit here, I'm not an economist, at least I look at it and say we have a real growth challenge. So, the first thing that we all have to do is, when we say this is like the Industrial Revolution, let's have that Industrial Revolution type of growth. That means to me, 10%, 7%, developed world, inflation-adjusted, growing at 5%. That's the real marker. It can't just be supply-side. In fact that’s the thing, a lot of people are writing about it, and I'm glad they are, which is the big winners here are not going to be tech companies. The winners are going to be the broader industry that uses this commodity that, by the way, is abundant. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry. But that's to me the moment. Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me. The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10%. Th…
June 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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She looks like a short haired Lilly especially the face
June 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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No it isn’t?
May 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I would paint the window art seasonally
April 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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It wants cigarillos
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This can’t be real omg.. hate really does make make you ugly
February 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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He wants you to get a new backpack
February 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Gotta explore and enjoy activities that you like, so you can find someone with common interest and a place/reason to spark up a convo about what you’re doing. Painting classes at rec centres, thrift stores, dog walk meet ups, whatever you’re into
February 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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You’re rambling at this point, go heal
February 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Cringe
February 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Dang.. second reply 9 minutes after the first, this one stung hey?
February 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM