dfp33's comments

dfp33 · 2026-02-28T02:38:28 1772246308

Is it really incredible?

Only if you're naive. I guess most here are.

Governments are paranoid, particularly about losing control and influence over its subjects. This is expected behaviour.

wslack · 2026-02-28T02:49:20 1772246960

By that logic we should expect all governments to regress to totalitarianism, which hasn’t happened, and isn’t what’s happening here.

The question isn’t if some would attempt these behaviors, but rather if we and our democratic structures empower those people or fail to constrain them.

myko · 2026-02-28T02:43:21 1772246601

This is a very different vibe in the US than it has been in living memory.

puchatek · 2026-02-28T06:26:02 1772259962

Democratic governments care about this to a degree but only autocratic ones get paranoid.

dfp33 · 2026-02-27T21:57:47 1772229467

"If AI stopped progressing today, it would take probably a decade or longer for us to take full advantage of it."

AI stopped progressing, or LLMs? I really dislike people throwing the term AI around.

grosswait · 2026-02-27T22:11:53 1772230313

For the purposes of their argument, I don’t think the distinction matters.

dfp33 · 2026-02-27T21:25:39 1772227539

The only reason to draw this comparison is to show SoftBank are not as competent as they'd like to appear to be - so putting their name in relation to investors of OAI does not strengthen the prospects we should share re. OAI.

dfp33 · 2026-02-27T21:17:43 1772227063

Nope wrong framing.

Nvidia is investing assets into OAI - it has to. Because OAI needs to become successful for Nvidia's story in the long-term to play out, to justify its current stock price.

malfist · 2026-02-27T22:04:19 1772229859

You say calling it circular is wrong framing and the immediately proceeded to describe a circle.

trvz · 2026-02-27T23:18:03 1772234283

Nvidia just needs the winner to be an Nvidia customer. OpenAI is replacable.

moregrist · 2026-02-27T23:57:58 1772236678

If OpenAI folded, you’d have the one LLM company that consumers know suddenly gone. Which seems like the opposite of an AI success story.

People will start looking at valuations more carefully. Investors will get jittery. Spending on GPUs will drop, as will NVidia’s stock price.

I’m not sure that NVidia views OpenAI as replaceable.

rfrey · 2026-02-28T02:32:08 1772245928

If OAI folded, there would also be a sudden tsunami of recent Nvidia hardware on the used market.

nehal3m · 2026-02-28T03:41:28 1772250088

Specifically built for training and inference and not much else, and also they age like milk. I don’t see how that helps anyone.

rwyinuse · 2026-02-28T10:58:35 1772276315

It would be a fun day for hobbyists who want to run big open source models locally, if nothing else.

7speter · 2026-02-27T23:57:05 1772236625

Customers comparable to openai are trending towards designing and/or using their own silicon, though.

dfp33 · 2026-02-27T20:53:43 1772225623

This right here is the right attitude.

Use these freebies/relatively cheap tools up 'whilst stocks last'.

I personally managed to create a very high quality marketing promo vid using grok. After spending weeks of enduring a lot of pain. But I saved myself tens of thousands.

I took advantage of 30 Grok premium subscriptions that were given to me via a free trial. There's no doubt the cost of services I took advantage of is in the tens of thousands.

But what do I care? I get what I want and then I get out before the freebies disappear.

LOL at the cry babys down-voting. Get mad bruh, get mad.