Looking at OpenAI’s books like
except instead of a dead dove it’s a pillar of the US economy with somehow several orders of magnitude less net value than an actual dead dove’s corpse 
it would grow the US economy more if they just paid USAmericans the money in cash instead of subsidizing their chatbot queries.
I really hate articles that “reveal” the obvious absurdity of capitalism as though it’s some shocking revelation.
The audited financial statements, obtained by independent journalist Ed Zitron
I like that there is literally just one guy who bothers with looking into what increasingly seems like the only business that still matters to Western capitalism
One of the funniest criticisms I hear leveled against Zitron is that he’s just a lone crank, and no-one else is saying the stuff he is. Obviously he’s milking the attention he’s getting (gotta get that bag), but I haven’t heard any coherent responses to his claims, nor have I seen anyone else pursue even the modest degree of journalistic effort that he puts into his blog. Modern mainstream journalism is in a state of complete flatlined, and at a time when there are bigger, crazier stories than ever to discover.
This is meant as no discredit to his work but a surprising lot of his research is just being like the only guy who actually reads the “gajillion dollar investment into AI” stuff on a contract level to find out it’s “we’re going to build 8000 datacenters that’d use up more electricity in a month than has ever been produced”
You’d be surprised at how much ‘novel’ information you can gain on any particular subject by just reading public records and talking to people. People tend to be extremely siloed into their particular tasks, not having the time or energy to actually investigate the larger issue.
Literally this was how Marx did his research for Capital, though he focused alot more into mathematical modeling alongside that data.
However, much of this phenomena has to do with the fact that if someone within the organization discovers it, then they are usually obligated to fix it, even if they didn’t cause it, which discourages most employee investigation and reporting of issues, especially ones that the bosses are keen on pushing.
actually doing the reading is a big part of being good at any field. i remember being struck by Michael Hudson mentioning some minute detail of the latest like 500 page US treasury report and thinking like oh right dude is serious about his work and actually reads those cover to cover
Who would have thought that actually looking into things would be part of modern journalism. Not me! I thought they were just supposed to copy and paste state department press releases.
Modern journalism is just stenography for the authorities
It’s a bit trite but in his video on plagiarism, hbomberguy points out that if something is really easy to check out, nobody does.
Kind of like how Karl Marx had a set of big naturals
🤷 You can be ahead of the news/journalism most of the time on all sorts of topics when do basic investigation like that.
They really took the democracy dies in darkness mission statement to heart
Why are we posting articles form 2 years ag…oh this is from this week? Waow the media is on the case as usual!
God I can’t wait until they implode
same
maybe they should stop buying RAM
They haven’t even bought any, they waved a billion in front of the RAM manufacturers and said “hey lemme book out your entire capacity for three years, I’ll pay you for it later mkay?” And the manufacturers going “yeah sure it’s yours”
Real ones know you should download more ram instead
Let me pull out my tiny violin
in other news: water is wet, the sky is blue and grass is green.
I thought this was already known??
