Did YC seriously think because a growth hacker was in charge, you could value a private school like its an overinflated tech company?

Yes. The answer is always “yes”.

Awful people facing justice

You love to see it

The only thing I’m holding against this guy is him buying into the AI doom, and I’m attributing that to him getting lost in the sauce regarding data science.

Everything else was this guy channeling his inner Kendrick and giving the AI bubble the beatdown it so richly deserves.

Can they, though? Sure, in theory Google could hire millions of people to write overviews that are equally idiotic, but obviously that is not something they would actually do.

The millions of people writing overviews would definitely be more reliable, that’s for sure. For one thing, they understand the concept of facts.

Going in for the first sneer, we have a guy claiming “AI super intelligence by 2027” whose thread openly compares AI to a god and gets more whacked-out from here.

Truly, this shit is just the Rapture for nerds

ChatGPT is dying Use Apple to make it die faster

" Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive."

(Well, this goes some way to explaining “AI” “art”)

https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1796096718250950660

Its times like these which make me happy I ditched Facebook years ago.

I seen someone on LinkedIn yesterday talking about how you’ll be able to “chat with your database”

Like, what if i don’t want to be friends with a database? What next ? a few beers with my fridge? Skinny dipping with my toaster?

Both options would be horrible, of course, but they’d both be better than spending another five fucking minutes on LinkedIn.

There are a few art sites that swiftly banned AI art before they got flooded (with Newgrounds and FurAffinity the most well-known).

Alongide the decentralised solutions you mentioned earlier, those sites should also come out okay once the dust settles.

No clue why they’d willingly accept crypto - they aren’t doing anything that’d have credit card companies running for the hills.

Kagi basically admits they’re just piggybacking off of Google, Bing, et al, so getting into the space shouldn’t be a serious PITA.

Also Kagi is a glorified Google front end.

The fact a glorified Google front end manages to be less shit than Google is a pretty damning indictment of Google, I’ll give Kagi that. Quoting Cory Doctorow, gratuitous italics and all:

The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google’s enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those results to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

This article is excellent, and raises a point that’s been lingering in the back of my head–what happens if the promises don’t materialize? What happens when the market gets tired of stories about AI chatbots telling landlords to break the law, or suburban moms complaining about their face being plastered onto a topless model, or any of the other myriad stories of AI making glaring mistakes that would get any human immediately fired?

If we’re lucky, we might end up with a glut of cheap GPUs/server space once the bubble pops.

The next AI winter is coming, and it looks like its going to be a brutal one.

Reject search engines, return to webrings/directories

May 2024: Things somehow get worse

It reminds me of that clown who made a video on how to consume media more efficiently by watching anime on 2x speed and skipping the “boring parts”.

…what the fuck