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		huijzer 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK's hardware talent is being wasted The fact that it exists doesn’t mean it’s the best. You see it all the time that businesses do something just because everyone does it too. For example, the current AI investments, collatoral debt obligations in the 2000s, and conglomerates in the 1960s.

llm_trw 12 months ago [–]

>the current AI investments

As someone whose done both hardware and AI, the current AI investments are at worst a repeat of the 2000 dot com boom.

They aren't wrong, but they may be premature with how terrible our compute substrate is.

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