Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble
by switchbak on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:38PM
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My sentiment exactly, and I'm not exactly an AI fanboy here. I just don't see why he's viewed as some kind of authority or particularly insightful.
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Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble
by pydry on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:55PM
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Because he actually analyzes the rather ugly financials of the companies in the bubble.
For some reason the people who hate him the most are the ones most inclined to completely ignore the topics he actually talks about.
They all get hooked on anthropic screeching about ending humanity or some other nonsense and forget that this is a business. A business which is losing gargantuan stacks of cash and is running on the fumes of hype and cope.
Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble
by orangecat on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:30PM
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For some reason the people who hate him the most are the ones most inclined to completely ignore the topics he actually talks about.
Huh? His predictions on both the financial and technical sides (see https://danluu.com/zitron/) have been spectacularly wrong.
Re:Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble
by mopsi on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:58PM
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I don't understand his phenomenon either. Listened to a few long podcasts with Zitron. He had about 10-15 minutes worth of ideas and not much beyond that. Nothing of it was particularly novel. Are AI companies in a huge bubble? Most likely. Is AI itself useful? Not to the degree it's hyped, but yes, it has its uses. And that's about it. Nobody knows how the events will unfold, and listening to speculation feels like a complete waste of time.