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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by jazzypants on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:38AM (#50425437)
The only way I can comprehend this being upvoted so highly here is that it's copium. The hackernews crowd just can't emotionally handle the coming economic disruption.
Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by dbalatero on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:06AM (#50425815)
Sorry, did you have a real rebuttal here to OP or did you just want to say the tired phrase "copium" and drive off?
Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by legacynl on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:42AM (#50426327)
The biggest jump in technology has already happened. They already trained on all available data. The models are roughly as good as they're going to get. We will never truly be able to trust an AI model not to hallucinate stuff when applied to critical applications. The current tech will always require a human in the loop. Running more models to help other models is a hack and not a true solution to the problem of models being wrong.
Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by jazzypants on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:12PM (#50428416)
Yeah, this post was not my finest work.
Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by adityaathalye on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:24AM (#50426067)
It's "personal bet-ium" against LLM-AI as business [0] (NOT LLM-AI as technology).

Personally, still haven't found cause to alter my opinions, stated here:

- After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science & technology revolution

- Riff: LLMs are Software Diamonds

- Halting AI (as in, the Halting Problem, not stopping it dead in its tracks --- a foolish idea).

- Riff: Classifying Tools for Thought (what, relatively speaking, is the intelligence level of LLM tech, in my book... It is intelligence. But what kind?)

Cf: https://www.evalapply.org/tags/ai/

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[0] Kind of stupid to bet oneself against ten trillion dollars backed by absolutely massive corporations as well as world superpowers, but it takes all kinds to make the world :shrug:

Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by jazzypants on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:11PM (#50428403)
Whoops, I actually agree with you. I made this poorly phrased post before I had my coffee this morning and immediately forgot about it. I either misread you, or I responded to the wrong comment.

My bad! Sorry for the annoyance.

Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by adityaathalye on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:59PM (#50429045)
Not annoyed at all, but appreciate the comment. Cheers!
Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by keybored on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:36AM (#50426238)
Massive burn: the people I disagree with have motivated reasoning.[1] Would it be cope to deny that there is a bubble because one might have invested a lot in AI?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422043

> The hackernews crowd just can't emotionally handle the coming economic disruption.

The “hackernews crowd” has a lot of highly-paid SC wage workers, even venture capitalists (whatever that is about). Personally though I just have a normal job and don’t want to be disrupted out of how I earn my living. Now you can go on and gloat. Gloat about how you think that I will become economically destitute. This is an open invitation.

Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by jazzypants on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:14PM (#50428431)
Lol, great response, I actually totally agree with you, and I'm sorry for the annoying post beforehand.