Greg Tuck

It's a toss up whether we turn to Stan Cohen (who published his work on moral panics over 50 years ago but it still hasn't aged) or Father Ted (Down with this Sort of Thing!) to best describe the policy.

I think we need to distinguish between boomers proper, who exist in a specific online sense of boomerism and those of us who are just in a more generic state of sparkling middle age.

Is this 9.14 AM? If so it is terribly early to have hit the cooking sherry.

It's the data he makes available and the questions it throws up that I find useful. More than happy to read any decent analysis of the finances of this industry. My concerns are with the gulf between capex and capability and negative effects of its capacity to mimic and fake.

This is addiction not production and it's really sad.

as memory serves you can check with ALCS to see if they have any holdings for you, or if not its only about £30 to join. I am expecting a 10% cut of the fabulous wealth awaiting you.

Does the PLR cover as much as the ALCS? I was stunned at how much they had already waiting for me to collect them I joined as it cover Uni photocopied articles as well as lending.

Oh don't worry I'm more than aware of the whiff of bullshit just more concerned with the degree investors, banks VCs and most of all government can smell it. It's the gap between the reality of this tech and the debt mountain and lack of regulation based on hype & wishful thinking that worries me.

Not my sport at all but once had a Kiwi friend who had coached ruby in three different countries talk me through a game. By the end I was as they say none the wiser despite being far better informed. I'll stick to liking the running bits and just accept the mystery of the rest of it.

If the only down side was it failing to do the good stuff fair point, but it is already succeeding at doing the bad stuff especially fakery/mimicry helping scammers, making CSAM and screwing political discourse and people's capacity to trust and believe information. We need more realism and balance

Thanks. I think Zitron exists because there is a lack of decent fin tech journalism looking at the numbers in a more professional and dispassionate manner, or countering his argument ie. the tech isn't advancing quickly enough to produce the demand to justify/support the staggering cap ex/debt.

Unlike the Tech CEOs who have been spot on with the advent of AGI, death of radiology jobs, vibe software you would actually let anywhere near financial/customer management systems etc? His criticism of LLMs is become fairly mainstream. As for the bubble it will burst because of debt, not tech.

I'll give you that his prose style is fairly tiring, but the financial data he picks up on often points in relevant directions. He also tend to say where he is getting it so you can go back to sources and read it without his spin.

I think Marcus is more respected than you suggest. Zitron should cut down on the caffeine, but he digs up a lot of fin info that you find being talked about in the mainstream later. However I think you using such pejorative language suggests little interest in discussing this in good faith. Bye.

Cory Doctorow (he's the person who came up with the 'enshiftification' critique) is also worth a read.

Gary Marcus is excellent and has been in AI for decades so knows what he is talking about and isn't simply a hater. He has a Substack. The RI had a meeting last year on the inherent problems with LLMs. Ed Zitron is ott but does great diving into the suspect financing of the bubble. They exist

Its not just cope, but a reaction to the fact that the BS coming out of the Tech sector (all white collar jobs are gone in 18 months or they are going to build data centres in space etc) is given so little critical scrutiny in the MSM people just want to see some push back against the discourse.

Are they getting Oracle to (fail to) build the Detention camps as well?

The problem with pretending everything is rosey to buy time is it encourages wishful thinking and institutional inertia, works against the necessary urgency, lets people avoid understanding and hopefully buying into the huge cost of this rupture, and it doesn't help build resistance in the USA.

Regardless of the hype from the Tech bros the more telling announcements are coming from their financiers. Not only did Nvidia just pull out of its supposed $100B investment in Open AI, but SoftBank's CFO quietly posted yesterday that 'nothing has been decided about the next funding round'. Jitters.

The mistake people make is thinking that deeply engaging in things that fundamental don't matter is bad because it is a 'waste' of time, when that is precisely the point. Sport is enjoyed a blessed relief from purposefulness and often a wonderfully shared and collective one at that.

About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views Something big is allegedly happening

This is bollocks of the highest order. Vibe coding doing operating system stuff (computing about computing) is showing promise (but buggy). Vibe coding of anything that has to work with real world data is no less prone to error and hallucination. see garymarcus.substack.com/p/about-that...

you can't trust people that call it soccer

Interesting stuff, but while the move to clean energy could save 'the world' trillions it will cost 'the existing ruling energy elites' billions so this is always going to be about political power rather than simply rational choices.

The crash can't come soon enough

If they had politely listened to his concerns and thanked him for his input before ignoring them they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble. As it is they have another HR drama adding to the atmosphere of incompetence.

That was fairly extraordinary. He clearly thinks he knows where the bodies are buried.

Besides the hypocrisy, inaccurate data and blatant racism the 'tramp-in-a-suit' look isn't doing him any favours

It was a great series. The philosophy didn't feel shoe horned or so dominant it killed the narrative. It managed to stage profound questions while being clear eyed about the limits of philosophy. The scene when he justified its study to the governor was terrific.