- BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish1 day
Has anybody seen a real nervous breakdown? Because I’ve just watched that boring AI tech-nazi vomit his bullshit for 20 minutes waiting for it, and it never came. I demand a refund.
- cranakis@reddthat.comEnglish1 day
I wish he would have a nervous breakdown and crack in two mentally so he’d get the padded cell he needs.
1 dayYeah it’s super-annoying when they do clickbait headlines that exaggerate some asshole’s behaviour. It’s a huge let down and then it’s a weird feeling like “it wasn’t actually that bad” mixed with “but oh yeah, fuck that guy for other reasons”.
He heard that Star Trek gives ya nerd street cred. Probably thinks the Borg are the good guys.
They already bastardized LotR in stealing Palantir… if that tells you anything
Ya wasn’t Palantir the good guys who just wanted to industrialize middle earth and move on into the future and Gandalf and the hobbits were the radical socialists who just wanted chaos and nature and inefficient shit???
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
i believe thiel likely read a perverted version called the last ringbearer.
Fucking thiel is obsessed by LOTR, everything he touches has to have references to it
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
Of course the Borg are the good guys, improving their society through technology they’ve collected from societies all over the galaxy. Everyone should happily assimilate, and be happy drones.
Not the Sociopathic Oligarchs, though, they’re too important to be drones.
- 2 days
Doesn’t he know the guy’s gone back to calling himself Gordon Sumner?
- Turious@leaf.danceEnglish2 days
Has nobody ever seen another interview with this guy? Nearly every interview I’ve seen of him is exactly like this. This is just what he does.
- 2 days
I don’t think y’all have ever seen a nervous breakdown. This is more like an ADHD kid talking about something he’s interested in.
They just wasted 20 minutes of my life listening to Alex Karp.
Wait untill he starts talking about killing brown people; sparks start flying.
If it’s by the United states The targets will certainly be brown. Like it has always been.
- Narauko@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Isn’t there a song I’m vaguely recalling from Sunday school about that? “Red and yellow, black, and off-white, all are zeroed in his sights. Drop expensive bombs on all the little children in the world.” Did I remember that correctly?
- Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 day
The most perfect hatred, all people equally despised, truly a utopian renaissance man
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 days
I think the discussion he had when he thought he wasn’t live was enough for me to think he was losing it. Where he’s like acting like cnbc is different from the other girls. He was embarrassed there and talking himself into circles. A guy like that probably feels a really bad way right now like rage when he looks at the internet kinda bad.
Here’s the segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-0FKFfO54
He seemed pretty coherent to me. At times clearly thinking faster than his mouth can keep up but really no big deal.
Pretty interesting how he’s fully accepted that there will be “a wealth tax” as a result of a backlash against AI. And how the CEOs he knows are “livid” about how totally useless AI is even after they jumped in boots and all, lol
- scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
So typical of these clickbait headlines. Every time I see a headline about how someone melted down, it turns out to be someone who sputtered for half a moment in the middle of an argument. Same for any headline talking about how someone was “absolutely eviscerated” in a debate. Setting aside the metaphorical license, it’s always just a case where their opponent made a good point somewhere during an argument. There might be no reaction from anyone. Just whoever agrees with that point will say “yes he was eviscerated.”
Fucking clickbait.
Pretty interesting how he’s fully accepted that there will be “a wealth tax” as a result of a backlash against AI
I wish I were as confident as he is…
- sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 day
If wealth is in crypto maybe they think it can’t be found to be taxed
- 2 days
It’s also a thinly veiled attempt to land at tax other than 100%, and overseen by courts that we suspect he has influence over.
I like the confidence. I imagine things could still go that well for him. Everyone should get a chance to dream of nice things.
For someone who has taken so much from the rest of us, a mere tax could be a pretty nice outcome.
3:44 - [our customers] want to know they own the means of production.
Does he even know what that means…
I think so. He meant the capitalists, who are his customers, want to own their means of production. Not rent it from their competitors or suppliers.
First time I’ve seen that phrase used that way but it works.
It does indeed! He’s ranting about a capital tax too, where he just means ‘the cost of tokens’. He’s flailing wildly.
It works because those are the one’s we need to seize those means from…
- dan69@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Worked for a company that was using GCP for the entire infrastructure just bc no wanted their product to be touching even with 10’ pole with Amazon.
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 days
Capitalists want to own the means of production, and currently mostly do. So he does.
- AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish2 days
Thanks, and yeah lol, the guy is definitely coherent. He’s using a lot of technical jargon and also has that weird “cult leader” / CEO way of speaking to draw people in. Talking weird seems like a prerequisite to make it to the top lol.
I think what he’s saying with “We don’t need to oversell this” is “hyping of AI” is inflating the economy and creating a bubble that has adverse effects on everybody. The problem is overhyped growth and inflation, not AI in itself. And AI is growing too fast because of grifters. A type of “pre-enshittification”.
Which seems a reasonable take. I think the anthropic guy said something similar with a moratorium or AI development, to slow down.
“We have to find ways to make these models raise the standards of living for every American”
He’s presumably a horrible person aiding in the genocide of Gaza and empowering the worst of humanity, so this most likely just PR lies. He’ll probably lobby against every single policy that raises the standards of living. He touting the same “extreme left just as bad as extreme right” (neo)liberal bullshit. The same “adults in the room centrism” nonsense. Probably offering to use Palantir to combat people like Mamdani (who are effectively moderate). And “half the people criticizing Israel don’t think it has a right to exist” is vile too.
But the headline is just disinfo. It’s probably just grifters slinging dirt back. Or “flack” in Chomsky’s propaganda model. The article reads like a disgusting polemic hackjob. Really nasty journalism by Joe Wilkins, meant to distract from any discussion of the actual issues of what he’s saying, and what many CEOs are probably thinking.
- buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
God I hope every single one of these motherfuckers loses their shirt, pants, and every goddamn thing they own.
Just their eyes, noses, tongues, hands, and feet. Let them keep their ears so they can hear the disgust and disdain that people have for them when they’re reduced to begging in the same streets where they paved over the hopes and dreams of the poor.
- 2 days
Nah let them keep their heads, after all the rope needs it to support the body.
- SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
Wizard Pope didn’t specify which head. The rope and the pruning shears are not mutually exclusive.
They need to lose their fingernails, one by one, then eyelids, then tongue, then ears, then nose, then eyes.
They’re ghouls on the inside, this is just … soul-type affirming care, or something like that.
For his next interview he should try to make his own head explode
- turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish2 days
Every day humanity fails in some very basic tasks that would ensure our future
I despise Alex Karp and Palantir, but this feels like a pathetic attempt to discredit him, for reasonably throwing shade on grossly over-valued AI products, unsuitable within the context of critical infrastructure and enterprise. His Berkeley faculty member argument simply seems to be an analogy, for other models being capable of performing the task, but it simply not going to happen in his belief. This article appears to serve stakeholders of the AI bubble.
