SoftBank Cashes Out Nvidia Stock (Archive)
I'm too jaded to get my hopes up, but wouldn't it be so nice if this were the beginning of the end for the AI bubble?
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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Either they're right, and the bubble pops soon, or they're too early and it's another hilarious Softbank L
my read of the situation is that it's another phenomenal softbank L even if they timed this sale at the top of the nvdia valuation. if they thought it's a bubble popping soon, they would try to get out of openai deals, but they're doing the opposite. most immediately, they need money to dump 20B-ish into openai by end of the year, triggered by that no-profit transition, and it's money that they apparently don't have. that their stock dumped like 15% in a week probably didn't help either
This. Masayoshi son is selling furniture to YOLO more money into OpenAI.
ok, cool. when does he start selling off all the super limited-edition anime waifu merch? asking for a friend
this has increased the comedy
if you think it's stupid, it's not as stupid as it sounds, it's worse. they also sold some tmobile stock and took debt backed by ownership of arm. it's like they instinctively get rid of pieces of ai bubble that retains some money and hold to pieces that are black holes
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so for a while now sheer outrageous ludicrous nonsense of the trumpist-era USA politics has been making a bit of an impact on the local ZA racists (and, weirdly, not only the white nationalists but also the black nationalists - some of it has shone through in EFF and BFLF propaganda strains), and I knew that with the orange godawful-king ascension to his hoped-throne it was only a matter of time before shit here escalated
anyway, it's happened. the same organisation also put up some ads along the main highway ahead of the G20 summit
(upside: some of those have already been pulled down. downside: the org put up some more. don't know what's happened with the latest yet)
fuck these people
A fact-generative AI, you say? https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess
TIHI
I reiterate the hope that AI slop, will eventually push us towards better sourcing of resources/articles as a society going forwards, but yikes in the meantime.
Via Reddit!SneerClub: "Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts"
Michael Hendricks, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, said: “Rich people who are fascinated with these dumb transhumanist ideas” are muddying public understanding of the potential of neurotechnology. “Neuralink is doing legitimate technology development for neuroscience, and then Elon Musk comes along and starts talking about telepathy and stuff.”
Fun article.
Altman, though quieter on the subject, has blogged about the impending “merge” between humans and machines – which he suggested would either through genetic engineering or plugging “an electrode into the brain”.
Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that's even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.
Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that’s even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.
I think he exists in the tension between rationalism/transhumanism and what he can get away with selling to the public, and that necessarily means his schtick appears dumber and more incoherent. He's essentially got two major groups he's trying to manipulate simultaneously; true believers and those who have yet to be persuaded. As he runs out of hype on the public-facing side, it's suddenly a desperate scramble to keep the true believers that make up the bulk of his workforce on board. Hence his pivot to marketing his latest and by far most important product: publicly traded shares in OpenAI.
Apropos of nothing, L. Ron Hubbard died in a dingy trailer in Creston. Ever been to Creston? It's a long ways from Hollywood.
Pretty sure this brand of cyborg fantasizing is quite popular in mainstream rationalism, unless you're reading something more creative in this than superbabies, brain uploading and HDMI to visual nerve for undetectable on-demand pornography.
'Genetic engineering to merge with machines' is both a stream of words with negative meaning and something I don't think he could come up with on his own, like the solar system sized dyson sphere or the lab leak stuff. He just strikes me as too incurious to have come across the concepts he mashes together on his own.
Simplest explanation I guess is he's just deliberately joeroganing the CEO thing and that's about as deep as it goes.
‘Genetic engineering to merge with machines’ is both a stream of words with negative meaning
Iron-compatible osteoblasts that build bio-steel! Synapses with silicon, no, make that graphene neurotransmitter filters in the gap! C'mon, Sam, hire me and we can technobabble so much harder than this!
I must insist on cash payment, though. No stock options. And I prefer to be paid weekly.
"What if we figure out DNA well enough that we could edit a babby to grow NAND gate cells and put a calculator inside their body so they can do instant arithmetic like a computer?"
I assume he's talking about that kind of stuff, but being vague so you can't call him out if he gets details wrong.
Brb gonna go collect a trillion dollars for my startup idea that makes babies grow a malignant style parasitic twin that is actually a compute farm
These people aren't looking for scientists, they're looking for alchemists
Eurogamer has opinions about genai voices in games.
Arc Raiders is set in a world where humanity has been driven underground by a race of hostile robots. The contradiction here between Arc Raiders' themes and the manner of its creation is so glaring that it makes me want to scream. You made a game about the tragedy of humans being replaced by robots while replacing humans with robots, Embark!
Some Chat-GPT user queries were leaked via some Google Search Analytics owned by websites that ranked on the search result pages that Chat-GPT saw when searching: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/oddest-chatgpt-leaks-yet-cringey-chat-logs-found-in-google-analytics-tool/
Or something like that. It's a little confusing.
Not a scream just a nice thing people might enjoy. Somebody made a funny comic about what we all are thinking about
Random screenshot which I found particularly funny (Zijn rant klopt):
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Two people talking to each other, one a bald heavily bespectacled man in the distance, and the other a well dressed skullfaced man with a big mustache. Conversation goes as follows:
"It could be the work of the French!"
"Or the Dutch"
"Could even be the British!"
"Filthy pseudo German apes, The Dutch!"
"The Russ..."
"Scum of the earth marsh dwelling Dutch"
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is one of the source texts for the markov chain text generator our old favorite Harry Potter fan-fic?
oh you fucking know it
also all 3 parts of Das Kapital and the full text of My Immortal
Markov chains to bind the basilisk
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Just so we all know, not liking AI slop code is xenophobic.
Definitely been seeing the pattern of: “if you don’t like AI, you are being x-phobic” where “x” is a marginalised group that the person is using the name of as a cudgel. They probably never cared about this group before, but what’s important to this person is that they glaze AI over any sort of principle or ethics. Usually it’s ableist, as is basically any form of marginalisation/discrimination.
E: read the link. Lmao that’s… not xenophobia. What a piece of shit
Just saw this post on DHH, it’s really good: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html
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