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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "DeepSeek" - China AI App Shakes Up Tech Markets
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:19:21 +0000
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On 29/01/2025 03:10, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> On 1/28/25 8:15 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>> In article <20250128130321.00002cc9@gmail.com>,
>> John Ames  <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:40:42 +0100
>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like the humiliation thesis. But I also think it is a little but
>>>> more refined than that. Causing US companies financial damage is very
>>>> attractive to them, and if they can hasten the crash of the AI bubble
>>>> along, they would be happy too.
>>>
>>> Two great tastes that taste great together, yup.
>>>
>>
>> Warning - Deepseek found n Github!
> 
>    It will be *everywhere* inside a week or two.
> 
>    In any case, China HAS managed to do serious
>    damage to the "AI Bubble". That's gonna COST
>    us big-time and undermine future investor
>    confidence.

There was a nice sharp drop in tech prices on the markets. I used it to 
increase my holding in tech funds. Fund managers dont know as much about 
AI as I do, and that's little enough.

There are other things going on in tech besides attention grabbing AI.

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The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly 
diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential 
survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations 
into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with 
what it actually is.