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They're ramping up compute capacity because it's their only advantage over small developers and other countries, not because it actually works. China has demonstrated that smaller, cheaper, purpose built LLMs are more sustainable than trying to make LLMs into AGI. The bubbly obsession with building more data centers is driven more by hype than by material reality.
The guillotine of the future will have an onboard purpose built AI to guide it to find heads to chop.
It's not about AI or AGI tho. It's about controlling the working class' access to computing so that they can charge us for it.
Like once they have the data centers built they can do a lot more than just run LLMs. They can host local security/surveillance infrastructure.
And the bubble burst is by design. Its a classic pump and dump. It will literally be triggered by the shareholders cashing out and leaving everyone else holding the bag. They'll buy all the liquidated AI assets at a bargain and still have plenty left over to buy up the rest of our economy at pennies on the dollar.
These people are cretins with no regard for us. We are chattel to them.
They couldn't even control Iran's access. Gaza was the most surveilled place on Earth, and the Al-Aqsa Flood still happened.
There are limitations to what they can actually do, even with all their power. Stop doomering, people who have much harder lives than you do have found ways to fight back. You're just making excuses.
I'm not a doomer you're just strawmanning what I'm saying without addressing any of the substance.
I've worked in real estate and seen companies get liquidated. I'm not making shit up. These are real economic mechanisms.
I don't know what Hamas has to do with global economics. I said pump and dump and you said gaza is the most surveilled place on earth.
And what does that have to do with Iran? Are you suggesting Trumps blockade on hormuz refutes the future potential of AI?
You're making more insults than arguments my dude.
Companies are being liquidated because the AI bubble is causing Dutch disease, it's sucking the air out of the rest of the economy to inflate itself bigger and bigger. That doesn't demonstrate potential of AI, that demonstrates the irrationality of markets.
We're talking about guillotines and we're talking about everyone with wealth and power having militarized robots so that there's no hope to ever resist them (doomerism), so obviously we need to talk about Iran and Hamas. They're the ones decapitating the empire right now, even though they've been deprived access in ways much more severe than we have or we probably ever will be.
What I'm suggesting is they (the wealthy and powerful) can have as many killbots as they want, they can't stop us.
Today's guillotine is the HESA Shahed 136.
Look I think you're misunderstanding where I'm coming from. I'm merely elaborating on the intentions of the billionaire class. Please don't misconstrue their expectations as my beliefs. I have had personal relationships with people in that class. They're fucked in the head. Nothing quite like the look they give you when you say something "too poor". Took me way too long to realize our friendship was one sided and in fact transactional.
Completely agree. However capitalism's artificial scarcity generates demand even when the supply is slop. I've worked for a few companies that did wrong by their clients but stayed in business cuz nobody else wanted to do that bs. In the context of AI, it's gonna be slop, but the billionaires don't care. Enshiffication right?
Like based on your username I'm gonna assume don't have to tell you that the billionaires are crashing our economy on purpose for their benefit. What's going on right now is a giant ball and cup game. They're just moving around the money, converting it to assets, and sneaking them off the table when we're not looking while still taking new bets. When the house of cards falls they'll walk away with the table.
You're right but that doesn't mean the rich won't bet on you being wrong. Nor is it mutually exclusive to us being pragmatic before things devolve into cannon foddering ourselves into killbots. And we are. Case and point all the aforementioned new data centers being canceled.
I just want people to understand the true depth of callous disregard the billionaire class has for us sooner than later.
I mentioned the real world in my original post because I just wanted to remind people that tech oligarchy is a paper tiger.
I honestly haven no idea what you mean by that and like 8 guesses.
edit: just re read your original comment and I'm even more confused by your drone reference.
The OP describes militarized robots as the anti-guillotine.
Today's guillotine isn't a sharp piece of metal, it's a drone.
The guillotine of the future will be a militarized robot.
How does that explain that tech oligarchy is a paper tiger?
Like I'm not trying to be a dick or argue with you. In fact my first comment was agreeing with you... or at least whatever I thought you were saying as it sounded like it aligned with my point about tech assets changing ownership after the impending market crash.