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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir (...) Palantir’s market cap is also up over 150 percent year-to-date. Its current valuation is upwards of 200 times its forward earnings, spreading fears that it may be grossly overvalued.

He knows which one is more likely to get really fucked in this bubble and it's not the shovel seller

Burry similarly made a long-term $1 billion bet from 2005 onwards against the US mortgage market, anticipating its collapse.

Can we assume his puts aren't for 2026, but at least 2028 or later?

As CNN points out, Burry’s track record isn’t perfect. For instance, he called in January 2023 to “sell” in a now infamous tweet

Something something irrational solvent something

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "The two companies he’s shorting are the ones making all the money,"

One of the companies is making all the money and it's not Palantir.

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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Has anyone else noticed the recent resurgence of mechanical turk jobs? It's all AI training work. Before the work was doing tasks directly. Now they have people training tailored AI models.

In other words the tech bros have found get another way to shoehorn themselves in as a middle man. Instead of having workers do the work itself. Now the work is delegated to AI. Which is trained to do the task by humans.

At first it said the LLM era was the end of mechanical turk work. It's going in a circle back to mechanical turks again.

[–] duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I do think there is an AI bubble, but "guy who bets against things, bets against the latest thing"

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

There's an AI bubble?

I was pretty certain it was grifts all the way down lol

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall

not a very tough bet to make tbh.

very misleading title and literally no commenters could even read the first paragraph here lol. Man the AI hate is truly reaching the looms now

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

If he needs a straight pin to pop it I can send him a couple

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A billion dollar bet against a trillion dollar bubble. Cute.

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