2015 - I was a research scientist and a founding member at OpenAI.
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joined 2 years ago
…..pwahahahaha
“if only you know” in the purest form I’ve seen all week
Some people just want to watch the world burn
The next time I spot one of these in the wild, I plan to ask nearly-located juniors some loaded but unpointed questions
oh dear god how did I not see that before
that's wonderfully cursed, bravo!
damn you and your concision ;p
"retail investors" is a bit of a term of art, counterpointed to "institutional investors". translations: "public market investors", "people whose whole thing is doing investment"
institutionals are The Investment Firms Whose Names You Hear About, and they invest in the still-private (at the time) company, which allows the two parties involved to set specific terms and commitments and preferences, etc
the game that's been played by a bunch of bayfuckers for a couple years now is as follows:
- pour money into something, whether bullshit or not
- hype the everliving fuck out of it
- spend enough to destroy/outlive "related"/"relevant" competition, if necessary
- if still alive, live long enough to go public
- pull in piles of retail market money
- sell and get out before the hot air escapes the balloon
- (optional) write about Your Incredible Journey
what's quite frustrating is how often this still works, because of dynamics of FOMO and other shit
so that when genAI goes down its our savings that go “pop”?
as to this, It's Complicated™️. depends on whether the places your money is kept ends up getting allocated into shares on shit like this, etc. it could or couldn't happen, and the only real way to know is to keep an eye on the financial-entity decision-makers in the entities involved
oh yeah, I agree quite strongly with that sentiment too (and that's why I didn't re-use the words of the post I linked)
the fedi has some pretty dire threats (shit like threads etc) that I do think it needs to deal with by way of more teeth (consider it self-protective boundary setting), but in general I think a lot of the current state of it satisfying people just for being happy to be themselves is perfectly fine and good
side note: part of my problem is that my thinking on matters is a bit waterlogged due to shortage of knowledge/references, and backfilling that is ... well, hard to find the right resources for reading, and perpetual spoon shortage. I've been working my way through some Graeber and some other stuff, but very slowly and need more things. also doesn't help that ZA is, functionally, a desert island
musk.. chess.. post.. ?
actually, forget I asked. I've had an eventful enough week of bullshit, and am going to close my friday off with some careless daydrinking and relaxation
(e: I would add: good god "musk chess post" must be one of the craziest strings of words I've seen in a while)
I endorse this usage, and am now 100% in favour of popularising "founder mode" as a term if we do this
you haven't really startup'd 'till you've been jumpscared by this at A3+ poster size in the coffee/social area
I’m not USAian but I’d bet both “jizz” and “gusto”, depending on context