I'm such an EZ hater but it's because he's worse than literally anything else. He doesn't know anything about economics, or business, or computer science, or software, or anything. He writes the same rant 3 times a week for money and everyone who follows him is a mark.
Literally worse than Gary Marcus. Worse than Wired journalists. Worse than pretty much everyone else except maybe for YouTuber doing surprised thumbnail face #937436, because EZ is just selling shit.
The better offline subreddit in general is very funny because it's all people debating when Ed Zitron's predictions will come true like they're discussing biblical scripture
it's so interesting finding people that truly believe ai bubble popping means the technology starts to stagnant/disappears. and strangely this isn't some fringe believe, i've seen multiple big accounts that thinks this is how tech bubble works.
"The bubble" is only a stock market term. Nothing really happens to the technology when the bubble pops, some loosely related lines on a graph just go south.
Look at this graph and try to pinpoint the timing of the "dot com crash".
The thing that none of these people understand is that AI is essentially analog computing being emulated on digital hardware.
Once we have analog inference hardware, the cost for inference approaches zero.
do you think when the ai bubble bursts we'll automatically enter fully automated space communism, or will giga-empress kamala hold on a bit while she rounds up everyone who's ever used an email client with suggestions
They long for the days of yore when they could pretend their fanfictions and hand-drawn genderblobs were actually in any way valuable. They can't stand knowing they're outclassed by Grok-generated greentexts and fake Angus McBrides by Midjanny.
