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martin-tyesterday at 11:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

During the gold rush, it is said, the only people who made money were the ones selling the pickaxes. A"I" companies are ~selling~ renting the pickaxes of today.

(I didn't come up with this quote but I can't find the source now. If anything good comes out of LLMs, it's making me appreciate other people's more and trying to give credit where it's due.)


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netsharcyesterday at 3:29 PM

Wasn't it shovels?

NVidia is a shovel-maker worth a few trillion dollars...

kapsiyesterday at 12:25 PM

What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?

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