knotthatone

We chose not to have children, but our friends are spending upwards of $2k/mo on daycare because both parents work full time in the office. It’s outrageous.

AI isn’t free. Right now, an LLM takes a not-insignificant hardware investment to run and a lot of manual human labor to train. And there’s a whole lot of unknown and untested legal liability.

Smaller more purpose-driven generative AIs are cheaper, but the total cost picture is still a bit hazy. It’s not always going to be cheaper than hiring humans. Not at the moment, anyway.

Simply throwing computing power at the existing models won’t get us general AI. It will let us develop bigger and more complex models, but there’s no guarantee that’ll get us closer to the real thing.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that AI API pricing is artificially low right now. Very low.

There are big open questions around whether training an AI on copyrighted materials is infringement and who exactly should be paid for that.

It’s the core of the writer/actor strikes, Reddit API drama, etc.

I don’t think we should assume the Kelcie Mae is particularly slow either. The ship’s speed isn’t determined by how many nacelles it has.

No one is buying the ‘hur dur in the office is more productive’ bs anymore.

It totally is a silent layoff, but I think a large chunk of the older execs still actually believe the office is more productive. There’s also a large chunk executives who have investments in commercial real estate companies who are trying to put off the complete collapse of that market so they can get more of their money out before it all goes to shit.

Eh. it’s one thing always talking about Reddit in more general communities, but this is a Reddit community.

I don’t think NVIDIA minds the money they get from the DIY builders market, but they get a lot more money from OEMs. They shouldn’t neglect the DIY market, though. If the enthusiasts stop recommending their GPUs then big OEMS will eventually drop them too.

AI is just in a gold rush right now. Companies are throwing around piles of money to develop it.

We moved to a big city and went from two cars down to one. I’m working on convincing my other half to go to zero cars. We don’t use it enough to justify the expense. An occasional road trip or big shopping run. We can easily (and far more cheaply) just rent a car when we want.

But it had to be something that the Klingons found very upsetting. If it was opera, they’d just keep rolling with it and having a great time