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- 6 de Sep, 2017
Thought experiment: What are we supposed to be able to do with the AI that uses all of these datacenters, that we cannot do now? Data, in what form, and for what purpose, are intended to be stored in these datacenters? Why has it become a "matter of national security"? Why are we in an arms race with the poster child for 24/7 omnipresent digital surveillance, over these datacenters? Whose data are they storing? Is money really being made?
If AI is a matter of defense and national security, then this certainly implies that AI is a weapon. Aimed at whom? Our enemies abroad? Don't be stupid, this is obviously a means of leveraging the economy to enslave the goyim. You're not just going to get silly pictures of a shark wearing sneakers, you're also now subject to the true purpose of the big AI push, which, if every other technology created since 1994 wasn't enough of a fucking hint, it's mass digital surveillance. AI is the perfect final node in the web for the surveillance state. A cherry on the top of a storied, three-decade-long pedigree of the government utilizing every major technological epoch, to destroy your privacy, and/or put you in a box, and they even convinced you to pay for it yourself.
The only reason the Big Tech Round Robin exists, is out of the naive gambit that AI could one day be profitable. It won't be, at least not as a publicly-accessible tool, under the current OpenAI/Claude model. The only money actually coming in, is through government contracts and angel investments. I have my doubts that ChatGPT subscriptions would be enough to keep OpenAI's lights on, much less, enough to purchase more compute. The only way they can get compute, is by collecting investors, while all of these companies push the same dwindling cash reserve around in a big circle, with the hope that by the time all of these investors pull out, the business model will be sane enough that they might survive the inevitable fallout of this patently and openly illegal financial action. I don't think that's going to happen.
What I DO think could happen, though, is twofold:
1. AI is a bubble, all of the money thrown at it, as an attempt to legitimize it as an industry vanishes, creating a money vacuum that wipes our economy out, almost wholesale, and we spend the next several decades living as paupers. The Great Depression is gonna look like pussy shit, by comparison. People will beg for the age of the dustbowl over what we're going to get.
2. AI as an industry turns out not to be a bubble, most white collar industries become automated, and the economy implodes, because it has already gone K-shaped, and you are no longer the consumer-base. Corporations only have the ability to think about the short-term, and deprioritizing the mass-market, in favor of contracting out compute-time and/or hardware to the government and other corporations, will slowly come to mean that the economy becomes a big party, from which you are now disinvited. This is a great idea if you believe that government contracts are in infinite supply. Too bad you need taxpaying consumers for that, which is the only element in this equation that makes the difference between the U.S. Dollar and the Zimbabwe Dollar. Despite the meme that you will be used as a battery for the AI-generated world to come, humans are not excellent batteries. You are going to have tens of millions of homeless/jobless people who are no longer active participants in the economy, which, in the long term, means no general revenue, no tax revenue, no true consumer-base, as it is now all incestuous corporate money-movement, and eventually, economic death awaits.
Bonus Round (3). I'm somehow wrong about the above two outcomes, AI is not a bubble, Big Tech wins their short-term gambit, and somehow survives long-term, and you WILL become a battery, live in a pod, own nothing, and be happy, the natural world is bulldozed to continue the construction of AI datacenters, humanity goes extinct, and the Earth becomes a semi-alive hypercomputer demigod entity. Basically, AM from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
There is no good outcome for flesh-and-blood human beings in this new world, long-term. No matter what, you are not going to be anything more than a tertiary or quaternary participant in the economy, until it dies, and it will. This is purely an Agenda 2030 type beat, and if you're excited for that, then I weep for you.
Once again, don't make me tap the fucking sign. I was not wrong six years ago, I'm not wrong today, I have never been wrong, and I will never be wrong. Enjoy being a Doctor Eggman animal-battery, fuckers. Don't say I didn't warn you.
If AI is a matter of defense and national security, then this certainly implies that AI is a weapon. Aimed at whom? Our enemies abroad? Don't be stupid, this is obviously a means of leveraging the economy to enslave the goyim. You're not just going to get silly pictures of a shark wearing sneakers, you're also now subject to the true purpose of the big AI push, which, if every other technology created since 1994 wasn't enough of a fucking hint, it's mass digital surveillance. AI is the perfect final node in the web for the surveillance state. A cherry on the top of a storied, three-decade-long pedigree of the government utilizing every major technological epoch, to destroy your privacy, and/or put you in a box, and they even convinced you to pay for it yourself.
The only reason the Big Tech Round Robin exists, is out of the naive gambit that AI could one day be profitable. It won't be, at least not as a publicly-accessible tool, under the current OpenAI/Claude model. The only money actually coming in, is through government contracts and angel investments. I have my doubts that ChatGPT subscriptions would be enough to keep OpenAI's lights on, much less, enough to purchase more compute. The only way they can get compute, is by collecting investors, while all of these companies push the same dwindling cash reserve around in a big circle, with the hope that by the time all of these investors pull out, the business model will be sane enough that they might survive the inevitable fallout of this patently and openly illegal financial action. I don't think that's going to happen.
What I DO think could happen, though, is twofold:
1. AI is a bubble, all of the money thrown at it, as an attempt to legitimize it as an industry vanishes, creating a money vacuum that wipes our economy out, almost wholesale, and we spend the next several decades living as paupers. The Great Depression is gonna look like pussy shit, by comparison. People will beg for the age of the dustbowl over what we're going to get.
2. AI as an industry turns out not to be a bubble, most white collar industries become automated, and the economy implodes, because it has already gone K-shaped, and you are no longer the consumer-base. Corporations only have the ability to think about the short-term, and deprioritizing the mass-market, in favor of contracting out compute-time and/or hardware to the government and other corporations, will slowly come to mean that the economy becomes a big party, from which you are now disinvited. This is a great idea if you believe that government contracts are in infinite supply. Too bad you need taxpaying consumers for that, which is the only element in this equation that makes the difference between the U.S. Dollar and the Zimbabwe Dollar. Despite the meme that you will be used as a battery for the AI-generated world to come, humans are not excellent batteries. You are going to have tens of millions of homeless/jobless people who are no longer active participants in the economy, which, in the long term, means no general revenue, no tax revenue, no true consumer-base, as it is now all incestuous corporate money-movement, and eventually, economic death awaits.
Bonus Round (3). I'm somehow wrong about the above two outcomes, AI is not a bubble, Big Tech wins their short-term gambit, and somehow survives long-term, and you WILL become a battery, live in a pod, own nothing, and be happy, the natural world is bulldozed to continue the construction of AI datacenters, humanity goes extinct, and the Earth becomes a semi-alive hypercomputer demigod entity. Basically, AM from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
There is no good outcome for flesh-and-blood human beings in this new world, long-term. No matter what, you are not going to be anything more than a tertiary or quaternary participant in the economy, until it dies, and it will. This is purely an Agenda 2030 type beat, and if you're excited for that, then I weep for you.
Once again, don't make me tap the fucking sign. I was not wrong six years ago, I'm not wrong today, I have never been wrong, and I will never be wrong. Enjoy being a Doctor Eggman animal-battery, fuckers. Don't say I didn't warn you.
