Column: The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
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Shares in AI companies have powered a huge runup in the stock market this year, but users are beginning to question whether the craze will fall flat.
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    I’m sure he won’t mind. Worrying about that doesn’t sound like working.

    I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. I work seven days a week. When I’m not working, I’m thinking about working, and when I’m working, I’m working. I sit through movies, but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about work.

    - Huang on his 14 hour workdays

    It is one way to live.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
      49·
      3 months ago

      That sounds like mental illness.

      ETA: Replace “work” in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

      I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about baking cakes.

      I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about traffic patterns.

      I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about cannibalism.

      I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about shitposting.

      Obsessed with something? At best, you’re “quirky” (depending on what you’re obsessed with). Unless it’s money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.