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rahulyc • yesterday at 6:23 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

People seem unnecessarily deluded here in a supposed hacker forum. If they are really created actual digital intelligence smarter than every human and figure it out how to control it, then 1T dollars means this is the most undervalued business in the entire world. Maybe by 100x or 1000x. You have billions of super genius slaves in data centers that do whatever you want, then if a single human developer can earn $100k/year pessimisticly let alone a super genius one. Multiply that by a billion and do the math at 80% gross margins


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afavour • yesterday at 6:28 PM

…and what if they haven’t? Given that we haven’t seen evidence of one so far.

You’re also missing the competition aspect. What if other companies have their own super genius slaves to sell at a cheaper price? What if open models allow anyone to have their own moderately genius slave at far less expense?

ReaLNero • yesterday at 6:55 PM

Yours is a reasonable estimate at the _value_ of their product. They will only be able to capture that value if their competition cannot catch up AND they can reduce spend on R&D. I personally do not believe they’ll defeat distillation.

notnullorvoid • yesterday at 6:31 PM

> If they are really created actual digital intelligence smarter than every human

Whoever is claiming that is an idiot.

ahartmetz • yesterday at 7:38 PM

What if they have billions of super genius slaves, but Chinese companies have just slightly less super genius (and catching up) slaves for 1/4th of the price, while all prices are already dropping?

bunderbunder • yesterday at 6:34 PM

I see nothing delusional in speculating that that’s a very big if.

And if they haven’t created an artificial superintelligence then they start to look more like just another tech startup with no moat[1] and a terrible balance sheet.

[1] I don’t know about you, but I switch model providers multiple times per day.

asadotzler • yesterday at 10:10 PM

If a frog had wings...

You are making claims with no basis, caveat-ed by "if," and then calling everyone here fools for not basing their beliefs on your wishful thinking.