Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.
“CEO said a thing” journalism
61–70 of 81 posts
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#62It 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.
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
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
True. His wealth and racism are both remarkable traits.
Is that what you think is most remarkable? Seems blinkered.
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#64Closely 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
#65Closely 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?
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
#66I'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?
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
#67Closely 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?
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
#68Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.
Re: “CEO said a thing” journalism
#69Closely 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
#70Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.