Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

10 months ago by Alphane Moon to c/technology

: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
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SeeMarkFly 143 points 10 months ago

When I lose $11 Billion dollars, I have to go to bed without supper.

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Alphane_Moon 104 points 10 months ago

If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem; if you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

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Kirp123 99 points 10 months ago

The difference between 100 million and 11.5 billion is about 11 billion. If you own a bank 11 billion that's not only that bank's problem, it's the economy's problem.

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boonhet 41 points 10 months ago

It's about 11.5 billion, really.

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MattBlackAlien 45 points 10 months ago

It's exactly 11.4 billion, really.

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boonhet 19 points 10 months ago

Well, if you want to get exact, sure. But if we're talking about half units, like 11 and a half billion, then 11.4 is so close to 11.5 there's no difference and calling it just about 11 sorta implies that it's a more significant difference IMO

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MattBlackAlien 3 points 10 months ago

You need to be as precise as your resolution, otherwise the precision is meaningless. I guess you could argue that your resolution is units of half-billion (since some things are measured like that), but the initial value of 0.1B, and your use of 0.5 rather than 'half' suggests a resolution of 0.1B.

This is different to the aphorism 'The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion', both because of the difference in scale, and the quoted resolution.

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vacuumflower -1 points 10 months ago

11.4 bln is 100 mln away from 11.5 bln. I'm not sure "so close" is correct here.

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