This AI bubble is rapidly accelerating and it will take the entire market (and global economy) down with it. And while Sam Altman didn’t singlehandedly ignite the new silicon arms race, OpenAI (and ChatGPT) did usher in the era we are now living in.

Much was said about Nvidia overtaking Microsoft today to become the world’s most valuable company, but take a look at the top 3:

They are ALL beneficiaries of partnerships with OpenAI. Microsoft added a trillion dollars of market cap since partnering with them last year and Apple hit new all time highs after their announcement that ChatGPT will power “Apple Intelligence”. And Nvidia? Well, they were just a $300 billion dollar video game card maker 5 years ago and now they are the biggest company on earth because their cards train AI models.

I’m just flabbergasted at how quickly and thoroughly the promises made by one small startup has become the economic backbone of the entire stock market. The bubble popping for this hype cycle will be one for the ages.

5 points

Crypto Grift is preferable to AI.

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highest evaluations everyone has ever seen, the worst the tech sector has been doing with all the layoffs. they want you to be scared of AI so that the workers deem themselves less valuable and more replaceable, and giving an excuse to executives for cutting staff for short term gain. fuck these ghouls, all of them.

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It’s pretty wild how “the most rational economic system” keeps elevating these absolute goons to such dizzying heights. Imagine something like this under feudalism. Normally it takes a few centuries to Habsburg yourself into clamshell-eyed mandible men and by that time they aren’t your battlefield commanders anymore. Yet here we are, flying with wax wings toward the sun and our pilot is some knees and elbows nerd.

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these absolute goons

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So, was Max Azzarello close to the mark?

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