Why “zitron” is being discussed
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I agree, the headline lacks the nuance of what Zitron includes in the footnotes. What is your estimate of concentration risk of AI use in VC-backed startups? Do you think there…
by skmurphy · Sep 8, 2026
What I observe is that what people don’t seem to grasp is that Zitron isn’t an AI sage. He’s simply someone who figured out that he can get a lot of attention by taking a contra…
by WheelsAtLarge · Sep 6, 2026
Well yes, that's the point. Burry had his success early and was not notable before that. Zitron has been outputting a continuous stream of bearish sentiment that hasn't come to…
by zahlman · Sep 4, 2026
As someone who's strongly anti-AI, i find Zitron to be absolutely too much pro-AI for my taste. He defends AI that's not LLMs. He barely touches on ecological impacts of AI, and…
by selfhoster1312 · Sep 3, 2026
If the causal analysis is the real value, then it could be presented without a prediction, or at least without a specific prediction. In 2024, if Ed Zitron presented all his ana…
by scared_together · Sep 3, 2026
I think this is a legit read about the utility. > why should predictors be so coddled by their observers? I suppose that in the RIM example the predictor correctly identified ca…
by rtpg · Sep 2, 2026
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