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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Yes and my partners father has been calling for a bust for the last decade and everything has simply taken off.

I don't see any taking off actually

I think they meant the stock market more generally? S&P 500 is up what, like 4x in the last 10 years?

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I think there's a reasonable argument that our entire society right now is under AI psychosis: The stock market keeps going up in the face of the indefinite closure of Hormuz. We're investing in datacenters at a scale that only makes sense if AI capabilities continue to advance to the point where they surpass most humans at most white collar tasks, if not reach superintelligence. And what are the possible outcomes? -…

You seem to fall into the same set of criticisms as everyone who’s bearish about ai. It’s somehow so powerful that we can’t handle the ramifications. Meanwhile, it’s a waste of money and doesn’t do anything. You have to pick a criticism and stick with it. Otherwise, it’s just angst-driven noise.

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One AI can't vibe code out of the mess, so you'd make another AI trained on getting out of vibe coded messes? That's serious levels of circular thinking right there.

This is literally how training humans have worked for thousands of years. We train humans to do things untrained humans can not do.

No it's not, don't be facetious.

That's not at all how AI training works.

Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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I think there's a reasonable argument that our entire society right now is under AI psychosis: The stock market keeps going up in the face of the indefinite closure of Hormuz. We're investing in datacenters at a scale that only makes sense if AI capabilities continue to advance to the point where they surpass most humans at most white collar tasks, if not reach superintelligence. And what are the possible outcomes? -…

I don't think the majority of humanity will ever accept "AI" as being anything more than a fancy computer, let alone a 'new species', even if it was proven sentient.

You just need to embody the AI in something that moves, and then people will definitely treat it as a new species. Already happening in my town with delivery robots: when they get stuck on a kerb, a person will stop and help them up the kerb while saying soothing words like to a pet: “There you go, little guy, now everything is alright.”

Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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yes, the tone feels personal, and I feel happy for the author for expressing it on a platform that is desgned for it. He is clear in pointing out the hard earned lessons we have learned before and how the current actions are essentially undermining it. This is dumb (i agree) and he expects better from people whom he respects. it's clear, personal, logical. I don't understand what your criticism is.

It sounds like you know a lot more about him and the context than I do, the angle I am coming from is mass audience. This reached far, to the point I have no clue who he is and what else is going on. That’s why sometimes messages like those can be misunderstood, so I like to err on the side of caution over personal. Didn’t mean to say personal = bad, but that if you wish to change a broad status quo and raise awarene…

The author is quite HackerNews famous, since he founded HashiCorp, exited hugely to become a billionaire, and is currently building ghostty.

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Paypal Mafia -> Crypto Mafia -> AI/LLM Mafia -> I'm calling Biotech/BCI Mafia, WW3 Military Industrial Mafia, or Energy Mafia next.

Let's remember that these people have names and addresses.

For what purpose? Murder? Arson? It's amazing how often people say things like "no one is above the law" whenever it's convenient, then totally flip the script when it's not.

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post #698

I think there's a reasonable argument that our entire society right now is under AI psychosis: The stock market keeps going up in the face of the indefinite closure of Hormuz. We're investing in datacenters at a scale that only makes sense if AI capabilities continue to advance to the point where they surpass most humans at most white collar tasks, if not reach superintelligence. And what are the possible outcomes? -…

Success is also bust: Money becomes worthless. Everything you know and are is now obselete.

If we are successful building an "ultra" human AI, it will require massive amounts of energy. That translates directly to "money". There will always be money unless someone finds a way to negate the second law of thermodynamics.

Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Weird that you mention the stock market and then conclude that there are only two outcomes: bust or success. If anyone can learn anything from the stock market it's that boom and bust are cycles that oscillate around a trend and everything tends to revert toward longer term trajectories. So, yes everyone is caught up with and overhyping AI and yes there will be a bust after the boom at some indeterminate point but th…

You're describing the Gartner cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

No, he’s describing the Business Cycle, with literature about it predating Gartner by a few centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle

Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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this AI transitionary phase to Quantum, light chanels and new way computation will be architected will in the future be looked at similar to a toxoplasmosis like societal wide parasite, which invaded the host in order for the host to act more favorably to it
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