Cory Doctorow

It's just it's glass.

So once it's there, it is a productive residue.

Right.

So what kind of bubbles are we living through?

Well, crypto is not going to leave behind anything.

Crypto is going to leave behind shitty Austrian economics and worse JPEGs.

Right.

AI is actually going to leave behind some stuff.

So if you want to think about a post-AI bubble world, and I just got edits from my editor.

I wrote a book over the summer called The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

And if you want to think about a post-AI world, imagine what you would do if GPUs were $0.10 on the dollar.

if there were a lot of skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and if you had a bunch of open source models that had barely been optimized and had a lot of room at the bottom, right?

So I take your point, I think that there's gonna be a lot of firms in receivership, right?

I don't think that private equity bosses' preferences are gonna enter into it.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of firms in receivership, and I do think that when you contemplate

Intersection of optimization of existing open source models, you know think about what happened when when deep sick entered the market, right?

You've got Chinese firms that are prohibited from using the more advanced GPUs So rather than doing this sort of display of how serious they are about AI by spending as much money as they can They went they said okay.

Well, what can we juice out of?

previous generations of GPUs, and then they got some pretty impressive results.

Yeah, but what result?