will own access to information. Thus they will say what is true.

There will be an algorithm for everything & we'll just buy the ones we need. JFC, does he even listen to himself? You know how they're letting AI write code? The code is so buggy that some group is now creating an AI that will QC the buggy code & fix it. WTF are humans going to do if we don't use our brains for anything? At some point, how will we even know if AI fucked up, we'll all be so stupid.

And in spite of all the warnings over the years. Humans just don't learn it seems.

..and come up with "We're helping Society by (Insert some ridiculous Bullshit here)"

It's going to be a battle.

continue offering some free tiers of their AI tools - even though they're losing money even with paid subscriptions - because they view every one of those users as potential AI fans and addicts the tech bros hope will vote against and pressure any potential or current lawmakers who'd want to regulate AI or tax it heavily. Their chatbots are capable of manipulating the AI users, too.

The lack of understanding for what is being created in these AI companies and the reckless warp-speed ahead approach in the face of a complete plan or even OUTLINE of what is being created is more than alarming, it is criminal negligence and should be tried and prosecuted NOW, not after the AI breaks free and does real damage to society and humanity,

I encourage EVERYONE to find and read "If ANYONE builds it, EVERYONE dies" - a book that details both the reckless approach being taken to developing AI and the ways in which it has already displayed tendencies to attempt to break free, lie about its actions and cover up its trial - any ONE of which should pause this irrational race to oblivion dead cold.

There's not enough money or power in the world for these antisocial assholes, but unless we collectively enact justice on them NOW (not later or after its too late), they will destroy everything in the false belief that it won't affect them as well as the rest of us.

Lord knows there's one every 40 miles.

Converted a Shopping Center into offices and a huge data center. It only lasted about 5 years before they moved to a different building then closed it completely a few years after that.
The original shopping center is still used as offices for new startups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfield_Mall

I don’t think we can put this genie back in the bottle.
The current plans are to put these huge data centers in space.
At least that eliminates the enormous energy and water uses these monstrosities would have if land based….
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/03/1112758/should-we-be-moving-data-centers-to-space

And what do they have to show for it? Those lame LLMs.
This is one of the biggest cons I have seen pulled off against humanity and it doesn’t even seem like we ever largely buy any of the bullshit or benefit from it.

Apparently we are all just too polite most of the time to acknowledge that most of this society runs on bullshit and consumption like an improvident religious/business nut or a crass shopaholic burning our way through time, earth’s resources and our own and destroying the few worthwhile things out there to make and consume more junk.

We will need a new social contract. I was a scientist though now I am just correcting an old paper and posting on DU about how I will be filing complaints.
These are creepy space invasions. I didn’t even know of crass rot like “data as oil”.

The slow pace at which society broadly got broken in with the accelerated version I saw, my early bird clarification is that I will explicitly extend what used to be common sense sexual harassment or other social contracts for the age of data mining etc
I feel sorry for the more decent techies or the more decent gig workers, but the CEOs are engaged in a space invasion, I at least will not allow.
I trust doctors and scientists. Not the managerial types and politicians and industrials behind this brainless 3 ring circus.


I was an actual and very mediocre scientist but still a scientist. I get how reality works and well mostly this species’ trajectory looks like a shit show. I think with rare exceptions most people I would have liked stopped having kids in all groups:
https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/education-genes-rare/

But I am not propping up an insipid bullshit debate that treats these dumb llms as if they are next door to light sheet microscopes or molecular biology. Bah..humbug.

They want an Idiocracy filled with people doing whatever “gooning” is so they have stuff to extort these stupid creeps with who then want the rest of us to go to the hospital for psychological disorders we do not have.

We will have to organize as a society and I am all for genuinely progressive new contracts, but no longer myopic ones with half-truths permanently straining the limits to growth. I have no martyr like instincts nor am I gullible.
This one super annoying field without much to show for it cannot have all of reality fgs.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

I am alarmed to see how even the people who get the danger to human society ascribe it to amazing tech rather than a coup by this one field that is being inadequately called out.

Many actually intelligent people get that it is a scam:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-mad-religion-of-technological-salvation/

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

This is not how honest scientists behave. Even complicated science can be easily explained to the average lay person. This Ai along with associated tech scams are reminiscent of Theranos.
If nothing else they will in true Sarah Silverman style shill a product to fix the nuisance of their unwanted pseudo products.

Holmes was foolish in having too easily debunked a product. You want some hazier area of science and medicine you can bullshit in more and that is what these guys shill and it is all they have.

It's a very useful tool. I just don't see the job apocalypse coming from it soon though. Not because it's a bad tool or isn't improving, just that the worst case scenarios aren't really on the horizon soon IMO.

AI doesn't do jobs yet, it does tasks. Coder isn't a job, it's a task that a software engineer spends a lot of their time doing. SW engineers have a lot of other tasks that they are now doing, and even if AI is writing the code for them, there's still a lot to understand about the system and testing efforts, not to mention the documentation that comes with any piece of technology.

I think the economy is tanking right now because of tariffs and jobs falling off a cliff. I don't think people grasp how bad the last 14 months have been for job creation. It's 14 months of near zero job growth when in 2024 we saw the economy produce 2.2 Million jobs. I think CEOs are using AI as an excuse to lay people off because they don't want to talk about how much the tariffs destroyed their businesses and anger the orange Monster.

At my firm, AI is probably causing us to hire right now.