despite that one episode of Leverage where they did some laundering by way of gym memberships, not every shady bullshit business that burns way more than they make can just swizzle the numbers!
(also if you spend maybe half a second thinking about it you’d realize that economies of scale only apply when you can actually have economies of scale. which they can’t. which is why they’re constantly setting more money on fire the harder they try to make their bad product seem good)
far, far, far, far, far, far, far fewer business people than you’d expect/guess are data-driven decision makers
and then there’s the whole bayfucker ceo dynamic which adds a whole bunch of extra dumb shit
it’d be funnier if it weren’t for the tunguska-like effect it’s having on human society both at present and in the coming decades to follow :|
yt short
may shorts forever die writhing (along with the people that made it happen)
such a fucking abysmal format, coming along only because ~~twitter~~ ~~periscope~~ ~~facebook-lying-to-everyone~~ ~~quibi~~ "tiktok" popularity made every bigtech shitlord feel product fomo and decide they had to do it ritenao just in case they miss the next big thing, despite afterward still sitting on the exact same extractivist bullshit as their source of money as before
“we set up a pocket universe for our toy robot to run in, looped it a few billions times, and you wouldn’t believe what ways it found to fuck with the rules! we’re ever so shocked! :o” is a going staple in ML agent research for years now, these people are a parody upon themselves
remember that “agents in a physics sim” shit a few years ago (both early goog and openai, I think)? that strain of nonsense
also sprinkle it at the start, and throughout
because you just know the tiring fuckers won't bother reading in depth
are you, like, aware of how news media works?
this is unreasonably good, well done
from the company’s internal library because GDPR
I'm not a gdpr person (nor even european) but this sounds like bullshit - was it?
oh yeah - wasn't so much saying it wasn't, as I was meaning to say "given what you grump about, there are other things on here that you may enjoy"
I blame at-boot brain for not making that clear
LLMs continue to be so good and wagmi that they've progressed to the serving ads part of the extractivist SaaS lifecycle
you may in fact want to understand how much the ZIRP years had a hand in this, and then to also look just how many of those that remain (of which there continue to be fewer and fewer) are having to engage in Creative Accounting to make it seem like everything is fine
maybe try to learn from the past.