curuinor

So, uh, lawsuit when?

I don't do business in PRC anymore, haven't for an amount of time that means I don't know anything anymore, basically.

I'm talking like, getting 100x, VC sized returns. Of course you can sell widgets in China, it's a major world economy.

The youth unemployment rate is at 19% with employment counting as 1 hour a week...

We don't have a recent ARR, and their ARR calculation has had irregularities. They really do seem to have eyepopping ARR growth no matter how you slice it, though, but I kind of imagine also eyepopping churn, because of the commodity nature of LLM, even if they claim top bottom and sideways that they decommoditized LLM.

I don't think ROIC on a company that creates superintelligence is infinite. Nothing can defy physical law, nothing can teleport, nothing can reduce the universe's entropy, nothing can go faster than C, so there are structural limits keeping everything finite. Infinities turn people nuts, generally.

that's just... normal linux. you can have any damn linux distro for that

because of the immortality of financial accounts and such, it's basically what's happened to the economy. ancient 100, 200-year-old trusts choking the viability of laborers doing anything and so on. especially bad in europe.

There's cowardice and there's weakness. Because of the reduced enrollment nationally and the successful attacks on grants, universities have to compete for students now and it will be more difficult to take stands, just as us software-touchers find it more difficult to take the kinds of stands we like to take as our positions on the job market become less ironclad. The strong do as they will and the weak do as they must, but that doesn't really prevent the weak from nursing grudges for later.

Joining to another crater-low birth rate society will not make anything better on that front. No pro-natalist policy I am aware of has actually worked, and I'm regrettably aware of quite a few.

My whisper network has talked about cutting junior hires in computer-touching 60, 70, 80%

We don't care about the computers, humans are what society is for

Near the beginning of my career, I talked to a greybeard who harrumphed at me discussing something-or-other and said "computer security is an oxymoron". I thought he was being too pessimistic, nowadays I realize he was right.