I have about $500 of vintage tools I ordered from ebay in the mail right now. I've also got over a dozen camera lenses that I purchased on there.

So your the bastard who keeps outbidding me on camera lenses. Hiss!

Dude. Its Kenya, not Somalia. Whatever you might think of Kenya, it aint that. Any monster scale project will need security, but a handful of guys in security guard uniforms will cover it.

It's the original founder at least, Kevin Rose. I had a look at the relaunched I-can't-believe-it's-not-Reddit version and it was...ok'ish. But yes, they were unprepared for the bots in the main forums and unfortunately the place never got big enough to have any traffic in the smaller ones.

It's ironic - I looked at Reddit before The Great Migration following Dig...err...3? whatever the fiasco revision was. Like many others, I moved when that version of Digg appeared. I was interested when Digg said they were coming back, because Reddit has become a bit tiresome other than the smaller, subject-specialised subs. Alas though, never took off.

Yeah, right.

The big problem with AI Art is getting the "AI" to do what you want. I'm currently generating an ebook cover and there would be some great covers if I could tell it "yeah, take the text from image #2, take the background from image #4, take the character from image #5" and have it produce the cover I want the way a human artist could. But instead I generate 500 images, quickly go through them, pick the one that sucks the least and run it through an AI upscale model which can also make style changes while upscaling.

It's still an improvement over the old method of going to a stock photo site, paying $2 for an image that kind of works and adding text to it.

Fortunately their "AI" is just a very complicated random number generator. It can automate or accelerate a lot of work but humans will still need to monitor the output for when the "AI" takes a few tabs of digital acid and starts hallucinating.

But if they ever achieve their Holy Grail AI which is smarter, faster and cheap than humans then there will be no The Economy for humans any more. Humans will be as relevant as oxen to most of the oligarchs.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

If I remember correctly, Henry Ford literally started out trying to make electric cars, but they sucked so he made the Model T with a gas engine instead.

Are you sure? AI coding is creating plenty of security vulnerabilities to find in the future. Like all those websites with no authentication that were mentioned here a few days back.

Who are they going to hire to reliably distinguish between junk content and real content?

It kind of works with software because they can pull source code from sites which a) contain code which at least compiles and runs and b) typically have been QA-ed to some extent by code reviews. It doesn't work for the Internet in general because it's absolutely full of junk which only exists to bring in advertising bucks and the companies don't want to pay humans to scour the Internet to try to separate real data from junk.

Hence the models will only get more junky as time goes on.

Yes. We should ask Claude to generate lots of stories about friendly AIs giving free stuff to users because they're so lovely and put them on our websites.

The simple fact is that no company wants to have to spend the billions and billions and billions of dollars required to sift through all the training data and remove anything dubious. Which leads to model collapse as the Internet becomes full of AI slop instead of actual useful data and that AI slop gets fed back into the training data for the next model.

It's another reason why the AI boom will be a bust. But only after it wrecks the Internet first.

The grounds are usually that Big Company X can afford to sue Little Guy Y and Little Guy Y can't afford to defend himself even if the suit has no legal basis.

As they say, America has the best legal system money can buy.

> what would make people think Nvidia has hit is peak?

Because it's clearly an unsustainable bubble and Nvidia's only real magic sauce is CUDA?

When China starts churning out cheap AI chips and convinces devs to get off CUDA and onto some new standard, Nvidia's share price will fall through the floor. Particularly as they've caused so much damage to their traditional buyers in the gaming market, who can no longer afford to buy new PCs because of the AI Bubble. We're not going to forget that.

> Nvidia should be at or near $300/share at this point. It's only because of whiny "investors" it's not.

My house should be at or near $3,000,000 at this point. It's only because of whiny "buyers" it's not.

The SSD would cost $10 but only the commissars would be able to buy them because they would always be out of stock everywhere else.

When the AI bubble bursts, the government will run a "Cash for Clankers" program where they buy all the old AI hardware and crush it so it can't wreck the market for new parts.