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AI Is Really Weird
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A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up
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The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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The Beginning Of History
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We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid.
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You can’t avoid Oracle.
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The
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Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you
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The Case Against Generative AI
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Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?
NVIDIA has become a giant, unhealthy rock on which the US markets — and to some extent the US economy — sits,
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Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap
This week, something strange happened. Oracle, a company that had just missed on its earnings and revenue estimates, saw a
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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
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How To Argue With An AI Booster
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis
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