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The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Business can’t compete if it has to think up new excuses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBj9sBLwb3c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260217-the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down - podcast

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there's not one but multiple "wealth management stocks"

Also not sure why one trucking "company"[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company's results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

Traders are dumb.

[1] gotta say though, "Algorythm" is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.