youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoOracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square175linkfedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down111cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1556arrow-down1external-linkOracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.finance.yahoo.comyouradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square175linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 day agoThe 1% is willing to pay whatever imaginary fiat currency they can to eliminate the need for the working class. Then they can finally get rid of us.
minus-squareEndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 day agoWhile simultaneously acting like a bunch of whining little crybabies about declining fertility rates. Which is it: AI (and other automation) will replace jobs, or there aren’t enough people to work all the jobs?
minus-squarePrior_Industry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoIt’s even better for them to have extra workers for too few jobs as it drives the wage of those remaining jobs down. Dark stuff really.
minus-squaretlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoHedging their bets. They’re only capable of being sure of the future as the next person, which isn’t very capable at all. But they have the ill-gotten means to back both sides so they continue to be on top.
minus-squareEndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoOh I know what they’re doing. I just don’t give a shit and will point out how ridiculous their sense of entitlement is. No one is owed another human being.
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoclutches pearls “Muh factornios!!!”
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIt’s not that. Nobody really expects to achieve firm satisfactory result in something never done before, to justify the risk. It’s a bubble. That they found money to make such an input into inflating it just means the outcome of said bubble bursting is this good for them. I’m interested what exactly will happen when it bursts. A dictatorship, or a blitzkrieg against half of the world, or what else.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoGovernments realising billionnaires tried to scam them, and actually properly lashing out against fascist oligarchs, is what I hope.
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agothey get eaten by a hungry mob of people while hiding in a bunker?
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoSurely they have some explanation how that doesn’t happen, otherwise they are making strange plans.
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agommmm the touch of money and privilege really numbs the senses.
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoThat’s why OLE from ORACLE is becoming Rer and not getting his A torn?
The 1% is willing to pay whatever imaginary fiat currency they can to eliminate the need for the working class. Then they can finally get rid of us.
While simultaneously acting like a bunch of whining little crybabies about declining fertility rates.
Which is it: AI (and other automation) will replace jobs, or there aren’t enough people to work all the jobs?
It’s even better for them to have extra workers for too few jobs as it drives the wage of those remaining jobs down. Dark stuff really.
Hedging their bets. They’re only capable of being sure of the future as the next person, which isn’t very capable at all. But they have the ill-gotten means to back both sides so they continue to be on top.
Oh I know what they’re doing. I just don’t give a shit and will point out how ridiculous their sense of entitlement is.
No one is owed another human being.
clutches pearls “Muh factornios!!!”
It’s not that. Nobody really expects to achieve firm satisfactory result in something never done before, to justify the risk.
It’s a bubble. That they found money to make such an input into inflating it just means the outcome of said bubble bursting is this good for them.
I’m interested what exactly will happen when it bursts. A dictatorship, or a blitzkrieg against half of the world, or what else.
Governments realising billionnaires tried to scam them, and actually properly lashing out against fascist oligarchs, is what I hope.
they get eaten by a hungry mob of people while hiding in a bunker?
Surely they have some explanation how that doesn’t happen, otherwise they are making strange plans.
mmmm the touch of money and privilege really numbs the senses.
That’s why OLE from ORACLE is becoming Rer and not getting his A torn?