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The AI bubble is still ahead of us

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    The article makes some sense.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/the-bubble-is-ahead-of-us-hedge-fund-exec-says-investors-still-don-t-get-how-big-ai-is/ar-AA1RgeY0

    "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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    • HoraceH Offline
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      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      That's been my attitude. Get some money in the market. That will give you upside to the obvious downsides of AI taking over productivity.

      Education is extremely important.

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      • MikM Offline
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        #3

        We haven't made any significant moves.

        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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        • jon-nycJ Online
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          jon-nyc
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          #4

          Neither have I. Haven’t sold a thing since I bought my house over a year ago. Nd that was mostly bonds and foreign stocks.

          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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          • MikM Mik

            We haven't made any significant moves.

            HoraceH Offline
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            Horace
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

            We haven't made any significant moves.

            Well someone else manages your money. Professional money managers will do what they do, to minimize risk.

            Education is extremely important.

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            • MikM Offline
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              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              Yeah, but I have a self-managed account too. Everything is doing well there, but I'm looking into the possibility of some AI investments.

              "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                jon-nyc
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                #7

                Mag7 is pushing 40% of the S&P. Huge chuck of that valuation is AI

                Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                  #8

                  TikTok had a guy saying that part of China's plan is to have the best AI platforms and keep them free - and ensure they require less infrastructure to maintain. In doing so, they would undermine the mega-investments by US AI companies - which are over inflated anyway. Between the collapse of AI and a similar implosion of bitcoin, the US economy would be in shambles for some time to come.

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                    Of course, the long standing goodwill of our relations with Europe, Canada, South America, etc. would reduce the impact of any such plan...

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                    • MikM Mik

                      Yeah, but I have a self-managed account too. Everything is doing well there, but I'm looking into the possibility of some AI investments.

                      HoraceH Offline
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                      @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

                      Yeah, but I have a self-managed account too. Everything is doing well there, but I'm looking into the possibility of some AI investments.

                      I just shifted some money from AAPL to QCOM. We'll see how it does. AAPL is overvalued at this point. It hurt to part with those shares.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        #11

                        They've been very loyal to me as well. Did really well with Garmin, too. They pivoted nicely once GPS was ubiquitous.

                        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                        • HoraceH Offline
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                          Horace
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                          This run in tech stocks has been nuts.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                            Berkshire just pledged 10 billion in a financing round from Google to support AI infrastructure spend. Seems that while the masses are screaming about bubbles, the smart money is continuing to pour in.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                              Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                              Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                              • HoraceH Horace

                                @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

                                We haven't made any significant moves.

                                Well someone else manages your money. Professional money managers will do what they do, to minimize risk.

                                jon-nycJ Online
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                                jon-nyc
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                                @Horace said:

                                @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

                                We haven't made any significant moves.

                                Well someone else manages your money. Professional money managers will do what they do, to minimize risk.

                                Based on my experience with professional managers (never used one myself but I sit on the finance committee of three different foundations which use household name brokers) they usually have money in the latest thing, presumably because the latest thing is in the news and their clients will notice if they underperform AND are not in the latest thing which the client’s friends are in.

                                Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                  Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

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                                  @jon-nyc said:

                                  I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                  Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                                  Complicated hedging strategies don't make much sense to me. If you want to be both long and short highly correlated equities in order to insure the primary bet, maybe just discard the insurance and invest a reduced amount of capital in the primary bet. But if you want to potentially profit on a massive reverse move, I guess you'd have to do something more complicated.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                    @Horace said:

                                    @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

                                    We haven't made any significant moves.

                                    Well someone else manages your money. Professional money managers will do what they do, to minimize risk.

                                    Based on my experience with professional managers (never used one myself but I sit on the finance committee of three different foundations which use household name brokers) they usually have money in the latest thing, presumably because the latest thing is in the news and their clients will notice if they underperform AND are not in the latest thing which the client’s friends are in.

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                                    wrote last edited by
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                                    @jon-nyc said:

                                    @Horace said:

                                    @Mik said in The AI bubble is still ahead of us:

                                    We haven't made any significant moves.

                                    Well someone else manages your money. Professional money managers will do what they do, to minimize risk.

                                    Based on my experience with professional managers (never used one myself but I sit on the finance committee of three different foundations which use household name brokers) they usually have money in the latest thing, presumably because the latest thing is in the news and their clients will notice if they underperform AND are not in the latest thing which the client’s friends are in.

                                    Being "in" an investment doesn't say much. But they're almost certainly not "concentrated" in meme investments, unless they run a very specialized service.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • HoraceH Horace

                                      @jon-nyc said:

                                      I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                      Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                                      Complicated hedging strategies don't make much sense to me. If you want to be both long and short highly correlated equities in order to insure the primary bet, maybe just discard the insurance and invest a reduced amount of capital in the primary bet. But if you want to potentially profit on a massive reverse move, I guess you'd have to do something more complicated.

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                                      jon-nyc
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                                      @Horace said:

                                      @jon-nyc said:

                                      I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                      Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                                      Complicated hedging strategies don't make much sense to me. If you want to be both long and short highly correlated equities in order to insure the primary bet, maybe just discard the insurance and invest a reduced amount of capital in the primary bet. But if you want to potentially profit on a massive reverse move, I guess you'd have to do something more complicated.

                                      The short gives you a lot more money to invest. You’re betting that the AI companies will compose a larger and larger percentage of the tech stock universe, which could pay off regardless of what happens to the overall market. It’s actually how hedge funds got their name.

                                      Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                        As good a place as any to put this.

                                        https://seekingalpha.com/news/4599518-citron-research-founder-andrew-left-found-guilty-of-securities-fraud

                                        Community notes remains undefeated and all that.

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                          @Horace said:

                                          @jon-nyc said:

                                          I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                          Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                                          Complicated hedging strategies don't make much sense to me. If you want to be both long and short highly correlated equities in order to insure the primary bet, maybe just discard the insurance and invest a reduced amount of capital in the primary bet. But if you want to potentially profit on a massive reverse move, I guess you'd have to do something more complicated.

                                          The short gives you a lot more money to invest. You’re betting that the AI companies will compose a larger and larger percentage of the tech stock universe, which could pay off regardless of what happens to the overall market. It’s actually how hedge funds got their name.

                                          HoraceH Offline
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                                          @jon-nyc said:

                                          @Horace said:

                                          @jon-nyc said:

                                          I’ve read some interesting perspectives on why it isn’t in a bubble, both looking at PE ratios (much lower than in the dot com era) and the fact that the infrastructure companies aren’t building ahead of demand (like Cisco and the telecoms did in the dot com era). No one is laying the equivalent of dark fiber. Every gpu nvidia makes gets lit up right away.

                                          Gavin Baker’s fund is interesting- he owns all these AI stocks but has a huge short position in QQQ as a hedge.

                                          Complicated hedging strategies don't make much sense to me. If you want to be both long and short highly correlated equities in order to insure the primary bet, maybe just discard the insurance and invest a reduced amount of capital in the primary bet. But if you want to potentially profit on a massive reverse move, I guess you'd have to do something more complicated.

                                          The short gives you a lot more money to invest. You’re betting that the AI companies will compose a larger and larger percentage of the tech stock universe, which could pay off regardless of what happens to the overall market. It’s actually how hedge funds got their name.

                                          I had ChatGPT explain it to me. The reason I was confused is that it's not really an insured long on the AI stocks. It's a pairs trade where the investor is betting the AI stocks will outperform the broader QQQ, regardless of the overall direction of either. I guess that's a "hedge" by some other definition than the one I'm familiar with. I know it as a pairs trade, or arbitrage.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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