I was about to say the same thing! Yet another blog post with heaps of navel gazing and zero to actually show for it.
The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.
And $1000/day/engineer in token costs at current market rates? It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
But we all know what they're going for here. They want to make themselves look amazing to convince the boards of the Great Houses to acquire them. Because why else would investors invest in them and not in the Great Houses directly.
You don't see why a company would gain to invite bloggers that will happily write positively about them? Talk about a conflict of interest, the FTC should ban companies from doing this.
We’ve been working on this since July, and we shared the techniques and principles that have been working for us because we thought others might find them useful. We’ve also open-sourced the nlspec so people can build their own versions of the software factory.
We’re not selling a product or service here. This also isn’t about positioning for an acquisition: we’ve already been in a definitive agreement to be acquired since last month.
It’s completely fair to have opinions and to not like what we’re putting out, but your comment reads as snarky without adding anything to the conversation.
Why will you be destitute? Consider this: how do billionaires make most of their money?
I’ll answer you: people buy their stuff.
What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
> What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
> Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
Or they pivot to businesses that don't depend on consumers buying stuff.
Or pivot away from business entirely, into a realm of pure power independent of the market and conventional economics.
> There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
There's another very rational, self-interested reason for those people to pursue UBI: as a temporary sop to the masses, to keep them passive until they lack the power to resist.
Can you give an example? His writing seems pretty grounded to me. He's not out there going on podcasts claimed that LLMs are going to cure cancer, afaik.
The worst part is they got simonw to (perhaps unwittingly or social engineering) vouch and stealth market for them.
And $1000/day/engineer in token costs at current market rates? It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
But we all know what they're going for here. They want to make themselves look amazing to convince the boards of the Great Houses to acquire them. Because why else would investors invest in them and not in the Great Houses directly.