I don't know a word that means the opposite of "bellwether", but if there is one, it applies to Softbank. That they're dumping NVIDIA and "focusing" on OpenAI tells me the boom isn't over for NVIDIA, but you should get out of money-furnace LLM companies ASAP.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

One of my 2 science fiction WIPs is set in a future where AI has done little to replace workers and a lot to replace management, and tries to deturn tropes about AI ruling the world. Also, it has the viable system model in it. And some sex. It's not working as a story yet but it's getting there.

No idea. I don't know the author, but no, he hasn't tiptoed around what he thinks of AI shaming or shamers.

"My hot take is all that matters and the fact that the author specifically contradicts it in an effort to make a more nuanced argument is irrelevant."

I think this is a bad take. You can read the actual paper at advait.org/files/sarkar... and see that it includes the passage below.

My take is much, much harsher than Sarkar's: AI-hate is the "socialism of fools" for the internet age, a legitimate rage against the wrong damn machine.

I don't think any of the people commenting on this actually read the paper. It's here: advait.org/files/sarkar...

I'm going to start saying LLMs are the Guitar Hero of management.

The Dutch also have bad food and terrible beer. I was required to know that to be naturalized. :)

(I'm kidding, I got Belgian citizenship by proclamation. There were no requirements.)

When the Vlaams Belang was campaigning on "multiculturalism has failed," I kept saying: "Multiculturalism has never been tried. If you can't even cope with people speaking French in suburban Brussels, how are you going to cope with black people and Muslims?"

This POV was not widely appreciated.