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Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#61

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

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post #19

It is at least entertaining when certain CEOs speak off-the-cuff and reveal they have no clue what they are talking about. Jensen thinks DLSS 5 works at "the geometry level", for instance. Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.

> Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens. What he said was that if he's paying 500,000 for an engineer, he expects that engineer to spend at least 250,000 in tokens, to get the most out of those $500,000. Basically that it would be counterproductive to hire a top tier engineer and restrict his token usage to let's say $200 or $500 a month. I think he's right on this.

> Basically that it would be counterproductive to hire a top tier engineer and restrict his token usage to let's say $200 or $500 a month.

That's not what he said, though. He gave a number, and that number happens to correspond to something on the order of 25 billion Opus 4.6 tokens (hard to say what input vs. output ratio is like). He also said he is currently "deeply alarmed" if his engineers don't spend that much.

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. His wealth and racism are both remarkable traits.

Is that what you think is most remarkable? Seems blinkered.

It’s the only parts of his person I consider such. All other ”accomplishments” are a-dime-a-dozen for the ultra-rich. Why would it for example be remarkable that he does not seem to understand the difference between gender and sex? Or why would it be remarkable that he has an inability to keep the timelines he has made for Tesla? Well, I suppose it is remarkable (and a bit funny) that he wanted to party with Epstein and was rebuffed. I don’t think it is remarkable that he is not a good PoE player, but should I?

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#64

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

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Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#65

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

No, but this stuff would magically stop being newsworthy if the DNC linked oligarchy couldnt or didnt want to use it as a stick to beat the RNC linked oligarchy.

It's good that this ulterior motive exists but it's not something you can rely upon.

Similarly there wouldnt have been a pushback on net neutrality if big tech didnt want it so desperately.

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#66

I'm confident this phenomenon exists in other industries too. Is there a term that's equivalent to "reactionary" but applies to leftist/liberal ideals or is it fine for me to start referring to this kind of writing as "reactionary" save that I apply some sort of qualifier like "leftist" or "liberal" before or afterwards?

It feels like the only reason to label one side of the political spectrum "reactionary" in this way is to poison the well for anyone responding to you.

Where as, pre-labeling things as being politically one-sided is very reactionary, and seems to be what you're doing here. It's also not limited to just one side of the political spectrum. I would argue that Conservatives tend to be even more reactionary than liberals. See: All the legislation to prevent children from eating from dog/cat bowls in schools when there's no evidence of this occurring.

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#67

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

Problem is, it is often just 1-2 posts on Twitter. Maybe 5… Heck! maybe 10, but that’s it.

And it’s often people who are only superficially involved in the thing they are so expertly talking about.

Sometimes it’s teenagers who just want to troll adults, especially knowing that their posts could appear in the news. Sometimes it’s adults who want to troll other adults for the LOLs or to fulfill a particular agenda. Sometimes it’s bots, actually, usually bots. Something the posts don’t even exist.

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#69

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

You can't infer anything about 3 choice Twitter quotes copied into an article, though.

Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism

#70

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

The half-life of those articles is one week or less. There are no public figures who are the source of those headlines, thus there aren't any second-order effects occurring from other media outlets running with the headline to write their own "here's our 2 cents" article for clicks and views.
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