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If Tesla is worth a trillion dollars, is it a meme ?

If Tesla is a meme, is it worth a trillion dollars ?

This is the much better question :)

It's not though

Not a meme? Or not a trillion dollars?

It's sounding like the plan is to make all of this even harder to obtain as well. It's a shame we just cannot be nicer to each other, even if just for a decade.

What I feel is that people are claiming progress is being made, but on what front ?

The machines might be producing more code at a faster rate, but what has that actually amounted too?


Are you seeing any meaningful improvements to anything you use though? Like have self-driving cars become really cheap and common place? Medicine improved? Is Netflix giving us an abundance of cheap, really good content to watch? How is your AI doctor?

The geeks are telling us the LLMs are great, but that's about it.

I'm seeing way more AI generated youtube thumbnails...I know you will say "give it time" but I'm pretty convinced the problems AI solves are not the hard problems required to boost an economy.


Isn't all of this only useful if you know the information presented is correct?

It seems that it’s useful if it’s better than what you would have done yourself.

Although the poster had a bus company business plan that includes actuarial analysis in his head and some spreadsheets so that bar appears to be sufficiently high.


if his skill level was very low, the AI plan would still be impressive at his skill level.

In other words - If he was low skilled, AI would impress him. Now that he is high skilled, AI still impressed him.

In other words - AI improves on what a human can do.


Don't worry about it. Just vibe your business plan, if it sounds impressive it's probably correct.

It is indeed correct. (else I wouldn't have posted it here)

I wasn't arguing whether or not it's correct, I was pointing out that it's useful only because you know it's given you correct information.

Maybe we'll get to a point where we just trust everything we receive from these systems but I'm yet to meet a person who would fund a business solely on an LLMs generated business plans without being able to crosscheck them by someone trusted.


From my experience, if you think AI is better than most workers, you're probably just generating a whole bunch of semi-working garbage, accepting that input as good enough and will likely learn the hardware your software is full of bugs and incorrect logic.

hardware / hard way, auto-correct is a thing of beauty sometimes :)

I've used for similar things, I've had some good and disastrous results. In a way I feel like I'm basically where I was "before AI".

No they aren't.

Agree, a corporation can do orders of magnitude more harm than an individual can. It’s called “regulation”.

All you have to do is see "openai.com" in the submission URL to know it's bullshit.

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