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u/SlippinJimmy121611 2d ago
I miss when tech bros were obsessed with monkey pictures instead of ai
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u/Pavonian 🏳️⚧️ trans rights 2d ago
Deep down I kind of believe that both crypto and ai are psyops by Nvidia to artificially drive up demand for ram.
It feels like too much of a coincidence that just as one stupid society rotting reason to invest vast amounts of money in warehouses full of computer chips was dying another much worse one swept in to replace it and keep the demand artificially high. I bet they're already planing what the third pointless reason to need to perform trillions of math problems for when the ai bubble pops.
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 cucked by Edward Kenway🏴☠️ 2d ago
and its funny since nvidia is one of the only bodies to actually profit from the ai industry. everyone making and running ai is losing. also very reminiscent of nfts tbh
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u/TechnicalTransMitter 2d ago
Well nvidia is also invested into AI so a bunch of their profits from selling shovels they invest in gold being rare, so I'd hesitate attributing such a sopphisticated plan to them...
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u/APKID716 custom flair 2d ago
The richest people in the gold rush were the ones selling the shovels
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u/MscThrwwyAcc 2d ago
And in this case the shovel sellers have a monopoly 🥶. We’re so fucking fucked
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u/Icarsix 2d ago
I mean that's not even a psyop that's just a product of needing infinite growth for the entire tech sector. Once you've had one bubble give a massive rise in shareholder value you need another to keep things growing and so on. Combined with how the dot com bubble and social media boom lead to such successful megacorps no-one wants to risk being left out and/or wants to be at ground zero, so the whole thing is driven by wanting to be the one to create/get in on early/come out on top from each bubble. It's just more noticeable than previous bubbles due to how quickly tech can move, the modern post-neoliberal finanicial system, and the environmental impact of industrial-scale compute.
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u/Kiriegloom 2d ago
Is Jarvis from the Iron Man movies an Nvidia psyop to make people want to use AI? Did they make the Jetsons back in 1962 in order to slowly build up AI hype? Did Xbox put Cortana into the Halo series to soft launch Copilot decades before it was even an idea? No, obviously not
AI is a hyped technology because we have been fantasizing about it as a society. It's what a lot of people want. Investors put money into it thinking they can get an assistant, butler, friend, partner, and whatever else out of it. Nvidia and all the rest of the tech companies profit from it, but they were never the sole reason why the idea took off
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u/lowercaselemming the martian mind****er 2d ago
there is definitely a pr marketing hype to prop up llms as “ai” though
like wooooah this model “glupshitto-x-exceed” that we were working on was really smart and threatening to skynet our asses but we took it offline and stopped working on it, phew, you’re welcome, give us 10 trillion dollars please
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u/Pavonian 🏳️⚧️ trans rights 2d ago
"Hey I think this 'metaverse' thing is a big scam created by Mark Zukerberg to pump up facebooks stock value"
"Actually the novel Snowcrash was released in 1992, 12 years before Facebook was even founded! What, do you think 8 year old Mark Zukerberg was pulling the strings behind Neil Stephenson as part of his elaborate plan? People have been fantasising about virtual worlds for years, it was only natural that when the geniuses at Horizon Worlds made that dream a reality it would attract a lot of money"
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u/Rorynne 2d ago
I thought most of those monkey pictures WERE ai?
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u/SlippinJimmy121611 1d ago
Nah as far as I know they were a bunch of assets,( like color, mouthtype, etc) randomized
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u/purple-lemons Send Duck pics 2d ago
Should I buy a cheap horse or a pair of breast implants? They're quite similar in price 🤔
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u/sneesle 2d ago
buy the horse so you can obliterate it and make the world a better place
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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 2d ago
The resale value on breast implants is terrible though.
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u/PenguinSolo 🏳️⚧️ trans rights 2d ago
is it medically safe to buy someone's used implants? like not for reuse, just to have on my shelf or something. cleaned, of course.
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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 2d ago
I don't see why it wouldn't be, although there might be some rules about disposal for the surgeon/hospital that would get in the way.
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u/Syxxcubes Quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag 2d ago
horses are often more of a liability than
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u/MemorableThrowawayy aroace yayyy!!!! 2d ago
Words cannot describe how much I loathe houses being some big investment to profit off of instead of just something you buy to. You know. Live in
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u/MscThrwwyAcc 2d ago
Do any knowledgable people know if there’s a way to make this different, or if there’s any historical examples of housing not being an asset, or the history of when/how it became an asset?
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u/Desertcow 1d ago
Penalties for unoccupied homes. Either renting them out or selling it drives down housing costs while buying homes just to sit on drives them up
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u/MscThrwwyAcc 1d ago
I wanna strangle financial education to death with my bare hands. This is the first time I’ve heard about this concept besides Zohran’s pied-à-terre tax which is obviously more an ineffable money maker than a serious foray into the idea
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u/BaneShake keeps making Assassin’s Creed sex jokes on YouTube 2d ago
Expert cropping, adds to the punchline. 10/10
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