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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

He may not be far off.

These bubbles usually last approximately five years. (Or at least that's been the case historically.) We're in year four. I'm actually keeping a portion of my portfolio in cash so when the crash comes I can take advantage, though I may move my whole retirement account into bonds and money market funds after the new year.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 59 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I had a boomer normie ask me how to use AI to develop his new "business" website telling me that he didn't want to hire a developer if the developer would just use AI anyway.

This guy doesn't know what a router is, and was asking me for help trying to understand what the AI was telling him, and it was the most basic shit.

When the normies are trying to invest in AI, they're the last to invest and know to throw money at it. That was a big signal to me that the bubble is about to pop. Money is running out and the boomers are trying to get in on it.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 56 minutes ago

Exactly this. If you hear people talking about investments around the Thanksgiving table, its time to bail. All the smart people got in months ago and have left, they are just looking for bag holders now.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 minutes ago

If AI is so good they should try asking it that. See where that ends up.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago

That's the real truth. Run like hell when luckless chumps show up looking all enthusiastic

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

When the normies are trying to invest in AI, they’re the last to invest and know to throw money at it

They are also the largest group by far. Doesn't really mean much aside from the fact that adoption is now widespread.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it's going to add up to a trillion dollars a year though, lol.

AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw

[–] Wakko@hell.cloud 7 points 2 hours ago

I don’t think it’s going to add up to a trillion dollars a year though, lol.

It will. The real question is - what will be the price of a loaf of bread in the multi-trillion dollar economy?

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can tell you how to use AI... for money.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 50 minutes ago

Oh, great, thanks! You're a real lifesaver. [Proceeds to pay more than he would have paid for the real developer, to spend more time to create vibe-coded tech-illiterate trash.]

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago
[–] FE80@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd probably have better luck shorting stocks if I could trigger a (rightful) panic like this guy can.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I've come to realize that I was assuming that there was a limit somewhere to "the market staying irrational". I'm not so sure anymore

[–] inari@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

It's less about fundamentals and more about what investors believe about the market. That's why Musk is so good at manipulating the market, he's convincing enough for many investors.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You could argue that a heavily debt-based business that requires years and years of more debt before becoming profitable would respond to rising interest rates quite negatively, but, yeah, the whole thing is already enitrely irrational.

I'm keeping some popcorn in reserve for OpenAI's IPO.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

I don't get why they haven't gone already.

If they don't get their IPO off before the bubble pops, they might be losing out on a trillion with a capital T

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago

The market has never been rational.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It'll only hurt us. The rich will profit heavily.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah, but if the bubble lasts longer it'll hurt us more when it does collapse.

Plus we'll have to deal with more clanker bullshit in more of our daily lives for longer if it takes a long time for it to collapse.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago

Are you talking about the collapse of the AI bubble hurting us? I mean, sure, but what's the alternative? There isn't one. The sooner it pops, the more money that will be available to develop businesses that can grow the economy. Right AI is gobbling up investment capital and driving up the interest rates and inflation of the price of tech hw is stunting consumer and business tech, contributing to overall inflation, and making actual products people want to buy more expensive, ie less sold...

I'd like to say that this economic collapse could not have come at a worse time, but I think bubbles like this are only possible when markets are no longer competitive, everyone is broke as shit, and people have to invent fantasies to make investors think line will go up.

[–] mr_jay@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

One can only hope…

Same, Michael Burry. Same

[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I have no AI investments outside of shit my pension probably buys

I am looking forward to investor focus moving to stocks I do buy though