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...e Models is the best piece of analysis on token economics I've come across. The tech industry just assumes zero marginal costs. With tokens, the marginal cost of inference is non-trivial. Marginal costs are back, baby! The frontier labs have p...
...ndustry Cannot Be Wrong. Today, AI researchers are top of the totem pole in the tech industry.[c]
If you're in the tech industry, you can't "opt out" of AI without opting out of tech. You could sit out the crypto or Augmented Reality waves. But you can't sit out the AI wave. It...
The way that many people see the tech industry: a techbro driving a steamroller towards them yelling "get out of the way, losers!"
The tech industry says "we're going to fundamentally change the world." Society: "For the better, right?" Tech industry: [smiles] Society: "...For the better, right?!"
The tech industry as a whole forgot how to "plant trees." That is, actions that are a little bit lower leverage right now, but will become significantly more leverage ...
The main value system of the tech industry: "make number go up." An execution strategy with no value system. It optimizes and hollows out everything it touches. "Who's to say what's actually i...
...oes layoffs will do everything it can to spin it as AI. This, combined with the tech industry's disruptive power, helps guarantee making AI a thing that society pushes back on.
...oncern that AI models are becoming commodities Even publications outside of the tech industry are realizing this.
The tech industry as it currently exists is kind of ick. The tech broligarchs who hoovered up all of humanity's culture and are now selling it back to us. That's funda...
I'm embarrassed by the current state of the tech industry.[db] Greedy, hyper-centralized, incurious. A shame.
The tech industry often talks about 'community' as in 'as an influencer I have a community of fans.' That's not a community! A community has two way interaction.
...vacuum. All that matters is what users do in the wild. That's the source of the tech industry's focus on getting in the hands of real users as quickly as possible.
...uld, they never stopped to think if they should." Seems to describe the current tech industry!
... software), which will profoundly change the industry. If we need to grow a new tech industry fit to this paradigm, we might as well do it by returning to the hacker ethic that we lost.
Why does the tech industry experience such a strong version of the coordination headwind, compared to other industries? Because tech is bits not atoms, and so it goes faster th...
OpenAI is ensnaring the whole tech industry into one too-big-to-fail[hc] quagmire. The US's GDP is dependent on the AI bubble not bursting. All of tech is looped up in it. As Ben Thompson point...
...nly one step. You also have to raise it and help it integrate into society. The tech industry often does the first step but disavows any responsibility for the second step, and then acts surprised at the emergent monster that it unleashed.
Too often the tech industry is all head. It needs more heart.
...ith negative indirect effects. Shame is about the indirect costs to others. The tech industry has no shame. Socially awkward. Just do whatever benefits you in the moment, without feeling shame. LLMs don't feel shame when they cheat. They'll cu...