• @gerikson@awful.systems
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    This landed on HN like a dead fish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722985

    Another submission with what looks like a lot more positive spin got more reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726603

    Edit choice comment from the latter

    If you assume that the costs of inference would continue to decrease while they would be able to get billion people hooked on 42 per dollar plan…

    That’s $0.5 trillion revenue rate

    A billion people. Paying the equivalent of a premium streaming service. For something that can’t even generate pr0n.

    Color me skeptical.

    • @YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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      68 hours ago

      Hat tip also to the guy who tried to spin “oil is a commodity” as though there’s the same demand and economies of scale for chatbots as for liquid dinosaurs.

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      714 hours ago

      What does well on HN is pretty random imho

      • David GerardM
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        1114 hours ago

        dang does hate Ed’s site in particular, up to faking titles

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          OpenAI Is A Bad Business?

          Would have done so much better