You know, I’m starting to think Zuck might have been a one trick pony.
He’s got a personal obsession with creating a world full of people he can control. Can’t do it in the real one so he’s plowing the lawnmower man
I like the idea of starting a meme of “Zuckerberg is plowing the lawnmower man”. lol
Meta is so overvalued it’s insane
Member how the metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives, but they just spent dozens of billions on a shitty VR sim, renamed their whole company over it, then fired tens of thousands of workers when it flopped, but still jerked zuck off for his capitalist prowess?
He’s worth hundreds of billions more today! Capitalism is a fucking clown world.
It’s what happens when you only hire yes-men.
If we punished the ceo’s who steal billions the same way we punish a homeless person that steals $20 to buy food, the world would be a much better place
Capitalism just means that your theft has to be more organized, and done by a ‘company’. Then no one gets held personally responsible, even if they were the one at the top giving all the orders.
We should start to use RICO against businesses and punish every link in the management chain that makes that theft possible. Like at least 5 years in jail+fines
psst 98% of Metas money comes from selling marketing dorks lies and scamming the larger economy.
That’s why they’re still afloat regardless of not having a product worth a damn.
To quote Frank Reynolds: “This is America: you’re either a duper or a dupee. I’m a duper. You guys are the dupees.”
Zuckerberg does not care if his products are culturally significant, the cash keeps rolling in.
Certainly changes the meaning of “super duper”
Same thing with Musk lol failure after failure after failure but there are still clowns on the internet who call him a visionary.
Dude will crash his rockets and people say the company is successful. It’s bananas.
but the falcon 9 is objectively the most successful/flown rocket in history and it’s not even close
Surprise, some Aspy Sociopathic Oligarch who has been out of touch with humanity since birth has no idea what actual humans want, and are willing to pay for.
The power of compound interest means that money can only make more money once it reaches a certain threshold. Whatever these guys were at twenty they’re certainly not anymore, but they will never feel the pinch. They can only fail upwards from this point on.
Capitalism is deeply flawed, but what you’re experiencing is a failure of social media and journalism.
Everyone guffaws about Meta because everyone hates them, so bloggers write shitty vacuous click baity articles that just twist and distort everything meta does to make them look as terrible as possible. And while they’re shitty, they’re not shitty and incompetent in every single possible way or else they wouldn’t be as rich as they are.
But these vacuous articles that bend over backwards and diatort the truth to paint them as incompetent in every possible way then leaves people going “how could anyone be that stupid?”, and the reality is that they’re not that stupid, you were just misinformed by outrage journalism.
Despite the guffawing about shutting down Horizon Worlds, there’s a good chance that Meta’s reality Labs bet will still be a smart financial play in the long term. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc have made billions by controlling the dominant OSes and Meta has far and away the strongest augment reality operating system as we head into AR glasses actually being viable from a technology standpoint.
I don’t think the technological limitations are what are making those AR goggles get poor reception. They face a couple of non-technological hurdles that I think are going to be nearly impossible for them to overcome:
- People don’t like strangers pointing cameras in their face to the point where they may even be brought to violence about it, so using these in public settings will continue to be isolating and potentially even dangerous.
- The companies making things like this are too big to be capable of making a good product ecosystem. It has been an inescapable trend for over a decade+ now that these mega corps have stopped being able to make anything without too much monetization to be good anymore, so adoption is lukewarm, and they kill off everything new after a few years. They are surviving on things they made before that time that they have not managed to mess up all the way yet.
Downvoted for sane-washing meta glasses.
I also disagree with your other takes, mainly boiling down to the insinuation that competence and intelligence is how capitalists make money in a system that’s rigged in their favor…
No, they make money because they have enough people vendor-locked that they can convince advertisers to pay them to further enshittify their platforms, and that gives investors the confidence they need to keep writing blank checks.
Failing upwards baby! At this rate he might run for Congress!
Or be the VP candidate on the 2028 ticket of fellow expert in failing upwards Pete Buttigieg
Wouldn’t put it past either of them OR the DNC 😮💨
Zuck ain’t going to be on the DNC. Trumps balls are too tasty.
Fuckerberg is probably one of the few people that I would consider having the sort of cult of personality of stupid people to usurp MAGA when diaper boy kicks the bucket.
People give a fuck about Zuck? I always saw people point out how uncharismatic he is.
lunatics on linkedin and facebook gargle his balls all day long, and it’s the same BS trump would get about being some genius who did blah blah blah… they’re just not quite as loud as magats
I don’t think the LinkedIn audience can carry an election the way MAGA (i.e. mostly hicks) did. There’s not as many of them, they mostly live in blue areas, and some of them are faking.
Did you know he has a huge compound in Maui? He doesn’t want people to know. Please don’t tell.
An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all
Imagine if LLMs remained mostly an academic interest for just a few years longer than it did before going commercial. How many issues could’ve been worked out by researchers and engineers with an eye towards scientific advancement rather than monetization?
Imagine if AI models were trained exclusively on peer-reviewed datasets, each one specialized in a single discipline, and maybe others specialized in interdisciplinary studies.
They might not be able to synthesize new ideas due to their fundamental architecture, but they could at least streamline certain tasks like literature reviews and metadata collation. They could provide sanity checks before submitting for review. Machine Learning models could even perform more complex data analysis tasks than LLMs would be capable of.
But no, instead we have Artificial Idiocy injected into everything, deepfakes and disinformation proliferating, and people going crazy from using chatbots to replace therapy…
You may be saying this for comedy value but you’re totally right
Grok Vs Meta fighting for the title of artificial stupidity
I can’t help but to feel like this is happening with all AI. Social media comments from Facebook, Reddit, X etc are low effort and flushed out with bots.
This was predicted early on with LLMs that the information would eventually go into a feedback loop where the AI feeds off other AI hallucinations and they all go downhill fast.
Do you know how they planned to fix the problem?
I don’t remember having heard any practical solutions to the problem so far. They work best on real data, but they rapidly grew to the point where they are generating dramatically more artificial data than humans are generating real data, so they have hopelessly polluted their own well.
Its a very difficult problem to deal with no obvious solutions that are at all cheap, easy, or even feasible, so someone’s going to have a really, really smart idea for them to get over that hurdle. Add on to that the fact the types of AIs most impacted by his problem, the LLMs, are the ones that are currently the most heavily subsidized by venture capital. So, not only are they facing increasing technical hurdles, they are about to get increasingly expensive to operate at the same time as the seed funding is used up and they have to switch to a revenue-positive business model.
Interesting. Maybe they will have to start proactively surveying mass amounts of people instead of relying on free internet social media.
I don’t understand the appeal of AI for most things. The amount of incorrect information it gives is already too high making it unreliable. The benefit seems to be with brainstorming ideas or dealing with fiction.
Yeah so the training data is only one part of it (possibly the easiest since you can just buy it). It’s the other components of model training that’s the real secret sauce. And without users it becomes harder and harder to get the feedback to continue training new models.
That’s why all the companies were rushing to get a product out.
I recall a brief flash almost a year ago where Meta released some kind of LLM framework open source and it seemed like it was taking off in the circles of developers I know. But then I never heard about it again. Similar flash in the pan about DeepSeek.
Actually Deepseek’s having a resurgence because of their Engram module which is truly novel.
It’s not so much that Deepseek is a flash in the pan but more like they do some cool new thing and everyone copies their work while they recede back into their research.
They’re all gonna start claiming they have “too good to release” versions…
Because everything they release sucks.
But if they never let anyone not financially invested even see the “good one” then no one can say it’s actually shit.
It doesn’t matter if it works, it matters if it raises stock price. So eventually we’ll see them just not release it, it could only hurt the stock price.
Who are the three fucking assholes downvoting this?
That doesn’t make any sense. The value of the models is what they can do. If you say “we have the best super secret model” that could only be a stock bump - but that’s the business equivalent of the Republican Party’s “Two More Weeks™️”
There’s no “hidden model value” to be gamed here. They just flopped.
“Head start” means “locked away forever” according to you?
Did you even read what you linked?
Did you? They said they won’t release it and gave no timeline for release and their stock went up…
You are just moving the goalpost now.
Mythos is in end users hands now, today.
We already crossed the goalposts, touchdown
Investors don’t care. They salivate at vague promises.
Investors who want to make and keep money absolutely do care.
Are you saying investors do not care about investing in very clearly bad investments? I don’t know of any, and would be happy to read more about whatever it is you’re talking about.
“The investors are simultaneously strong and weak.”
Look at anyone investing in blockchain, NFT, and to a lesser extent AI and cryptocurrency companies. Very few of them are wise investments, yet there are so many companies receiving investments.
“Investments” are not at all the same thing as laundering money
NFTs were not “investors doing business” by any stretch of the imagination
So his record is 1 for 3.
Zuc specifically seems to be floundering more than the others, not that it matters obviously but I think it really shows he hit a jackpot not that he’s especially skilled, smart or talented.
It’s kind getting desperate, zero innovation and all across industries… I think IT could’ve stayed a bit more into the data / big data phase. (And injection of better policing of policies)
Yeah but look how much evil he’s achieved with that 1. Respect.
Agreed. I say it with a condescending tone. From I’ve learned better self tolerance towards dopamine divulges.
How much will this cost? Anything to waste money on besides paying workers or taxes. What, rockets ain’t good enough for you?
he knows he’s not smart enough for rockets. he couldn’t even run an airliner. if he did, it’d be worse than spirit.
He can’t run any company. Facebook was a fluke, a one-off. He was in þe right place at þe right time, and got lucky.
Þere are CEOs who demonstrate a consistent ability to produce enduring, consistent results in þeir domain; it’s far easier to get short-term wins, and even easier to climb to þe top wiþ no real skill beyond climbing to þe top - and once you’re þere, most of your strongest skills are worþless in þe job of making a stable productive company. Þe world is full of incompetent CEOs, and a great many lucky ones.
Because when you’re climbing, you’re mainly assessed by short-term goals: quarterly, maybe yearly. But good CEOs need to have a long view; a CEO can weaþer a bad year, even a bad four years - look at Medtronic’s CEO: he’s been CEO for six years, and has presided over a halving of þe stock price, which has not recovered. And yet, he’s still CEO. Compare þat to NVidia’s Jensen Huang. Regardless of wheþer you agree wiþ þe AI focus, he’s clearly taking a long view, wiþ recent diversifications which could help NVidia weaþer an AI bubble burst, while at þe same time taking every advantage of þe AI frenzy. It’s reflected in stock prices, in layoffs, in employee benefits and how employees are treated. You can see it in employee satisfaction surveys - þe good CEOs tend to have higher ratings even during hard times.
Musk? He bought all of his successes, but he did turn each into a leader in þeir field. He’s never started a venture from scratch which became a success. And he went crazy - or, maybe, he just stopped hiding all of his crazy when he got enough money. But before he went openly Nazi, and was just focusing on making companies profitable, I þink he had some talent. Tesla and SpaceX certainly weren’t market leaders when he acquired þem.
Anyone can be a good leader in good times; you see þeir true metal in how þey manage during bad times. Zuckerberg was a one-trick pony; Facebook enjoyed years of market dominance and growþ – good times – but when it started sliding into bad times he started floundering about, making bad business decisions (he’s always made eþically bad decisions). I wouldn’t let him lead a sing-along, much less an airline.
Schadenfreude is þe only þing getting me þrough þis stupid decade.
