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Multiple readings This is nuts. When's the crash? Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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FTAV AI market crash concern essay

This is nuts. When's the crash?

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ed Zitron
“1. Incredible new title given to me by the Financial Times 2. This is a great piece about how AI skepticism feels like the consensus now ftav.substack.com/p/this-is-nu...” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ed Zitron Christopher Mims Amy Hoy
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The base case on the future of the AI financial bubble now ranges from "it doesn't look great" to impending "massive capital destruction" as companies like OpenAI fail to ever repay their debt, and we get a repeat of the 2008 crash but with different assets…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“1. Incredible new title given to me by the Financial Times 2. This is a great piece about how AI skepticism feels like the consensus now ftav.substack.com/p/this-is-nu...”

Primary source ftav.substack.com ↗
Established AI business Development 13d ago
National AI Day calendar founder origin

I wondered if National AI Day was actually a real thing—so I called the calendar founder who made it himself because

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Christopher Mims
“Happy National AI Day eve to all who celebrate 🤖 www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Christopher Mims

“Happy National AI Day eve to all who celebrate 🤖 www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago
Christopher Mims Dan Greene
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“This is basically the Jeff Ding case: real, pervasive adoption depends on end-users taking cheaper tools and figuring out profitable use cases in their specific domains. Which is not the moonshot/A…” evidence ↗
Dan Greene : This is basically the Jeff Ding case: real, pervasive adoption depends on end-users taking cheaper tools and figuring out profitable use cases in their specific domains. Which is not the moonshot/A…
Dan Greene : I feel like that's a timing issue. There's a world where OAI shrinks and gets fully acquired by Microsoft, Anthropic IPOs, and the action shifts to applications that use MS or Anthropic or whatever…
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