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3 experts · 57 posts · 1d ago
Simon Willison Ed Zitron Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“but why are OpenAI's economics so much worse? something doesn't line up!” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 3
Ed Zitron: So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
Simon Willison: Well yeah... your replies are filled with people who seem to think those 2025 numbers represent the current financial state of the company, when they very clearly do not
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2 experts · 3 posts · 2d ago
J. Nathan Matias Tim Carmody
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“Is the infrastructure even available to do that? I remember 15 years ago when Netflix was trying to get out of the DVD business and focus on streaming. I may have been the only one who said their p…” evidence ↗
Tim Carmody: Is the infrastructure even available to do that? I remember 15 years ago when Netflix was trying to get out of the DVD business and focus on streaming. I may have been the only one who said their p…
Tim Carmody: “Everybody’s got a computer or smartphone and knows how to use it and that’s where they do most of their tasks, using popular services linked to our system” is a huge infrastructural assumption tha…
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