Is the idea here that high frequency trading and self-dealing can be used to pump-and-dump a given proposition?

So, I find some low-traffic topic suggesting that Pigs Will Fly by the end of 2025 which has "yes" shares trading at $0.01. I buy a bunch of "yes" shares and then buy/sell a small chunk of them back and forth with myself, driving the price up to $0.50. Now I sit back and sell off my "yes" shares for something between $0.50 and $0.40 to anyone who shows up looking to get in on the rapidly-rising "Pigs Will Fly" proposition until a whole bunch of people have bought up the $0.01 shares for 40 times their actual value.

Or is there some other scam at play here?

The third solution is a revolution. It’s going to get really crazy when people in the USA realize that there’s not enough food, a couple big Wall Street companies own all the housing, and there are 400 millions guns in private hands.

I totally understand where you’re coming from. The algorithms default to feeding users people crap, and if you haven’t been watching the same stuff on YouTube for a long time it won’t match you to the good, nonsensational stuff. And that’s a shame.

At this point most of the money being thrown at AI is for scientific and discovery purposes. Because nobody really knows what AI will turn out to be capable of.They have plans for what they want it to do, but that’s all early stage stuff. In 25 years AI will probably be used for stuff few people imagined. What the AI companies have managed to do is get big investors to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at huge private research institutes instead of being fractured into dozens of small programs where everybody spends half of their working hours writing papers and grant applications. Some of these institutes will never make enough money to survive their insane capital expenditures. But the R&D they’re doing now is laying the groundwork for future generations. It’s similar to the US government throwing billions of dollars a year at the space program and people later finding earthbound uses for the science dreamed up to support NASA missions.

There absolutely is misinformation on YouTube. But it’s easy to avoid if you have common sense. The problem is that most people are fucking idiots who will believe anything.

It depends. The guy who does the Chinese business analysis quotes his sources and lists them, with links when possible, in his video descriptions. I like videos by a j-vlogger who’s been in Japan for over a decade and in his serious videos he actually goes out and interviews people so I know he isn’t just talking out of his ass. And when someone with lots of followers lies in a video they’re usually called out by other YouTubers and YouTube will put those videos right into my feed. So while YouTube doesn’t have the gatekeepers that The PBS News Hour or 60 Minutes does, it’s still got some quality control in place if you know how to look for it.

I'm 47 and I love YouTube. It has serious intellectual content by people who succeed based on brains instead of looks. I get insightful coverage of stuff going on all over the world by experts who can analyze what's going on and what it means. No TV news channel is going to analyze two years of news reports and think tank papers to tell me what's really going on with Chinese business and political trends. There's a guy on YouTube who does that two or three times a week. Last week I found an Indian university's channel that serves up master's level video courses. Why would I waste my time on network sitcoms or streaming prestige dramas when I can educate myself every day?

Tomorrow we'll find out that Jeff Bezos is investing $38 billion in OpenAI.

If something has never proven to have worked can it ever be said to have failed? A riddle fit for Bilbo.

"I plan on starting an AI company that just sits around and talks about AI companies.

Therefore I need at least eleventy-bazillion nVidia GPUs and three nuclear power plants worth of juice."

I am prepared to invest $2 billion into your startup. Please advise where to wire funds. Thanks you oh so much for this ground floor opportunity! /s

At some point people are going to realize that Ouroboros or a mobius strip takes you nowhere and just costs you money to keep circling forever.

(maybe the smart Wall Street money already has. Hmmm....)

Remember the good old days when people actually had web sites and just posted this stuff with text explanations and screenshots? You could read the entire thing in under five minutes. Nobody dragging simple stuff out five times longer than it needed to be to get more ads in. We need to bring back the culture of web sites and writing instead of making an unnecessarily long video out of everything.

wait, which restaurants require an ID scan??

100 years? It’s only been 25 years since the last tech bubble burst.

DUCKING AUTOCORRECT!!!