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benced • yesterday at 8:54 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

You can short them and make a lot of money (to buy RAM with?) if you feel this way and are correct.


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BLKNSLVR • yesterday at 9:30 PM

Not having the money to buy a new computer often means not having the money to put where ones mouth is.

Can't afford thing? Gamble on stock market instead.

Ridiculous argument that already rich people make.

demibabs • yesterday at 9:05 PM

No?

Shorting doesn’t only require you to be right. It requires perfectly timing when the market will realize you’re right.

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dragonwriter • yesterday at 9:22 PM

Google (which is diversified more and whose performance is less likely to track AI outcomes closely) aside, the two other members of the AI Big 3 are non-public, so, no, you really can’t.

swdev281634 • yesterday at 9:02 PM

Can I? Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are publicly traded.

rcxdude • yesterday at 10:53 PM

You can make a lot of money with shorts if you are correct about when the market will move. If you think that the market is overestimating the real value you have not even half of the puzzle.

vor_ • yesterday at 9:34 PM

With non-public companies?