Just imagine where we would be 5-10-15 years from now, if all that AI money would have went into social and environmental projects.
That describes my entire life since adolescence… wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths
If all the resources we spent blowing shit up and killing innocent people had been put to good use instead, we would be in a Star Trek-esque post-scarcity society by now. Possibly on our way to being Kardashev type 1 society.
Well, we still need to survive the war with the Klingons and Vulcans before we form the alliance and implement full-on space communism. But we already know we will, so it’s basically just for show.
Psychopathy is the one associated with success not sociopath
No, I don’t want to be any more depressed.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now. We can start on nice things today.
I got ome planted so far thos year. Running out of space on my own property. Time to go guerilla.
Just wait till executives realize they can’t use AI as a scapegoat when they force a bad decision through the company. They’ll have no one to take the fall.
It’s like that twilight zone episode. They fire everyone then no one is left to help do anything
Gruen tonight was talking about ‘Single Person Billion Dollar Brands’, it was sickening.
That won’t stop them from trying to use “AI” as a scapegoat, and it also won’t stop investment bankers from continuing to participate in the circlejerk
I’m just going to note how giga-fucked it is that AI is openly being criticized because it hasn’t led to more layoffs.
Speaking of layoffs:
To everyone here I am in need of work and on side working on some personal open-source projects. If I’m going to be unhoused I might as well enjoy it:
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Endless Runner Mobile Game like Temple Run but with ninjas and fighting enemies like mechs, assassin fish robots, etc along the way. Going for a retro type aesthetic. Undecided on what kind
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A Dark Cartoon Action Rogue-like Shoot Em Up (Think Mouse: P.I. For Hire mixed with Vampire Survivors) where you are trying to survive against endless hordes of enemies and collaborating with or fighting against other players depending on the gamemode (Maybe both at same time for one gamemode)(To see how to implement local co-op too) https://youtu.be/9nrmJSgqYTI https://youtu.be/iIlkIA6lxl0
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A Conker-like spiritual sucessor game with a brand new open source mascot at the helm (Will see how to have other open source mascots part of the story in some way too in a tasteful way) https://youtu.be/bTsNc_Bh17Y https://youtu.be/eorXCzJlpJ8
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A Walking-Bike (I have ambitions for bigger vehicle projects with others in future. Walking Bike-Cars, etc) https://youtube.com/shorts/pspKOt-0XUg
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A Short Animation series about Mini-Kaijus and their adventures about going around (destroying) the world
I’m a newbie for most of this but doing to learn and revise/overhaul as I go and learn more to eventually make these better and build up teams to work on these too (Make a couple game studios one by one eventually as well)
Have more experience with programming but nothing publicly showable yet sadly since I don’t have much confidence/self-esteem in myself and well I have never shown my work before. I’m proud of them and how they play/run. I’m sure people would like them but I don’t know
My ultimate goal though is to make games, animations, and even vehicles that people enjoy using, have fun with to play, and are moddable, and with community creations so you can play/drive them however you want. Building up communities, studios, and more that live well, get paid well, and enjoy creating together
Thinking of making a Ko-Fi/Patreon but have no clue if anyone would even donate to see any of this be fully made and released.
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They have invested too much, it’s funny how the mobs aren’t bigger and with more pitch forks. There is only one way for them to win, and that’s to replace a majority of white collar workers. Almost anything short of that with the amount of money invested and loaned is a failure for the Capital holders. But they hold them hostage because if AI fails, it blows up everyone’s retirement account and the general economy.
I’m hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.
It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you’re spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.
These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a “game streaming” service, for example.
Ahh, late to market in a flooded field with at least one law of physics preventing it from ever working acceptably. Good job, Jeff!
Good luck with that to them. Internet reliability is extremely crappy in the US, even on supposedly “tech hubs” in California the best you can do is unreliable Comcast or super slow DSL from AT&T.
It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly…
I’d imagine that is a major factor in why it’s so accepted right now. Gotta consolidate the market!
This sounds like the VC money is running out and the subsidies will soon end.
Don’t you worry, the AI companies already gobbled up the entire Internets worth of data, every conversation they could find on their social media networks to train their machine.
And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works. Don’t worry they’ll still give you the stupid auto complete chat bot and tell you that’s the real AI, The real AI works for the corporate captured government and is figuring out how to get rid of you. Their goal is not enlightenment of the human race, It’s depopulation and control.
This sounds like the VC money is running out
Nah. It sounds like they’re in the dump phase of the pump-and-dump.
And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works.
But Uber still isn’t any more expensive than contemporary taxi rides (which were already exorbitant thanks to municipal cartelization and bad urban planning). These AI services aren’t a problem as a function of cost (OpenAI and Anthropic are still both giant pits of burning cash) they’re a problem as a function of… function. Like, every agent still needs a professional babysitter or three. The tech debt these features generate often outstrip their real business value. And the tail risks are enormous.
I hail an Uber, I get in the vehicle, I ride to my destination, I pay the fee. That’s no different than a taxi service in any meaningful sense save the interface.
I install an AI agent, I issue a command, <???>, uh… profit? Apparently I can now cancel my Sales Force subscription because now I’ve got eighteen thousand automagically generated Power BI reports blowing up my email using info from databases that got organically spun up on my Amazon account to do god even knows what? Hooray! Optimized!
There is no “real AI”. That’s why the money is drying up.
That’s not to say they won’t exploit all that data on the way out, though.
Just a few more interest rates bro
Wow!
Really?!
No way!!!
Its almost like anyone who could do grade school math could have pointed that out 2, 3, 4 years ago!
I wonder if anyone did…
Anyway, uh, chain all these fucking morons into each other, SAW style, tell em they all have to work together and mutually suffer to escape the trap.
That’s not murder, it’s comedy.
I built my little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class.
At some point they will have to monetize and that’s going to be a bad day for everyone.
Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs.
If they don’t find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize.
And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps…
At its current pace, AI expenditures may reach $5.2 trillion by 2030
I can’t wait.
They think it is a lottery and sinking more money into it will increase the odds of “winning at everything”.
AI isnt AI
LLMs are overhyped
This is all a coordinated effort to keep people in fear and distraction while they prop up the stock market with AI hype to make Trump look better than he is. Its all lies and marketing.
I honestly don’t remember it being such a big problem during Biden’s time
Biden wasnt using AI and tech to do his evil bidding
Obviously, but think of all the middle management, payroll, HR, etc you can fire/not hire!
I’m not sure who to root for here. Middle Managers can suck eggs.
Imagine the horror of having an agentic AI as your manager.
AI manager: No you absolutely right, you definitely deserve a raise, sorry about that
Well, now that you say that, I can definitely see benefits to this arrangement.
You’re becoming hysterical.
😂
So is San Francisco about to hire 100k tech workers back?
100k East Asian tech workers, sure.
AI = Actually Indonesian
Slop software houses are gonna PAY BIG for losing human talent.
When that happens and it all crashes down, there will be plenty of experienced devs and sysadmins to fill the market gaps. Maybe as independent contractors/freelancers, but ideally as tech co-ops.
I have thought for a long time that the human brain that has developed through natural selection for millions of years probably is as energy and space efficient as it can possibly get.
The ultimate goal for these technofascists is to create a sentience that can do all the things humans can do but without having any rights. They want digital slaves. But this confirms my suspicion that they will have a really hard time achieving their goals while not going bankrupt.
Once an AI is smart enough to genuinely do all the things a human can do, that AI will a) be too energy costly and b) demand to get rights (e.g. getting paid and having time off).
The best the technofascists can realistically do long-term is create the digital equivalent of an “idiot savant”. And even then, it will probably still cost too much.
Yeah no shit. It was never about results, it was always about hurting people. It’s a step in the technofascist takeover. Fuck AI. Fuck techbros. Fuck capitalism. That is all.
