The investor has also claimed the way Nvidia’s graphics chips are accounted for is incorrect, claiming they have a much shorter use life than has been suggested.

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    In some ways it is not a bubble. Because the presumption behind a bubble is that there is an acceptable baseline in capitalism. There isn’t. Bubbles popping is just the boom and bust cycles. Every boom cycle in capitalism could be considered a “bubble”; the inflation of asset prices of (fictious or otherwise) capital propped up by labour. There is not a real division between finance capital and “industrial” capital; they are two sides of the same coin (yeah Michael Hudson is wrong, good stepping stone but I have outgrown him now as an ML).

    Having said that, that’s not the paradigm Nvidia is working with. The fact that he had to say it out aloud is hilarious.

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      I’d argue that bubbles are specific events causing a bust cycle [panic of 1819, crash of 1929, etc] of large proportions. Bust cycles are natural, but bubbles and depression/great recessions usually only happen once in a while

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    The investor has also claimed the way Nvidia’s graphics chips are accounted for is incorrect, claiming they have a much shorter use life than has been suggested.

    Last month, he revealed bets against Nvidia and Palantir of more than $1bn (£760m), allowing him to make a significant profit if the stock fell.

    Everyone in this whole ordeal is a scammer one way or another. Whether they bet on AI or against it.

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    Currently re-reading Lenin’s imperialism and oh boy reading the headline send me on big laughter session

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      It’s kind of funny seeing people cope that ai “isn’t a bubble” or “it’s totally fine” meanwhile ai hasn’t done anything really