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So when Ukrainians try to push for closer alignment with the EU it's a Washington-backed color revolution and thus is no different than Russia rolling into the literal tanks.

Like, even if you're not a Russian troll you're still adopting a conspiracy theory that completely ignores any agency the Ukrainian people have.

But paying executives in stock options helps "align incentives" or whatever

Yeah. I remember when the company I used to work for switched our style guide to allowlist/denylist and apart from That One Guy the overall reaction was a big "eh? sure, whatever". Nobody is out here pretending that this kind of change is going to completely end racism or even that it's going to have a major impact, but past a certain point continuing to casually throw the memory of chattel slavery around is just cringe.

Man, it's almost like hollowing out the core value centers of a company in search of short-term growth will leave an empty dying husk that can neither serve in new markets nor continue to exist in their previous niche.

If only there had been some kind of warning about the consequences of this management style. Hey, how's GE doing these days again?

But only the specific subset of anarchists that I read about first in my early 20s! All the others are just like those fascists in the Judean People's Front!

Religion is the opium of the masses

And I'm increasingly scared they're gonna kick our asses

Maybe it's time for all those mugs

To shut up and start hitting drugs

At some point, something is going to reveal that all the money in AI has gone into power costs for datacenters and NVidia chips and that the AI companies themselves aren't doing so hot. I hope it's the discovery process for some of the inevitable lawsuits.

Given the past several decades of trickle-up economics, I think we haven't seen anything close to the bottom of the well of basically-idle capital seeking unrealistic returns.

I'd go so far as to say that the current crop of bubbles possibly represents the greatest downards wealth transfer (albeit from billionaires to millionaires rather than, y'know, working people) since the second world war, but I haven't done anything near the amount of research necessary for that to be more than exciting rhetoric.

Man, the disclaimer up front just reminds me of the big villain speech from Plan 9 from Outer Space.

If you explode the solarinite, you explode the universe!

Yeah. We don't need Bond or even Squirrel girl. Call in the fucking Paw Patrol for this clown.

I'm trying to think of how you monetize eyeball scans and the first thing that comes to mind (well, after being able to break biometric security) is training an AI to generate fake but passable eyeballs to undercut the use of iris scans as an anti-bot tool.

Like, it's such a specific piece of data and it's not going to provide much utility for advertising targeting or profiling or whatever else, so I'm not really sure where the money is on this one. Not sure if I'm missing something or if this is another case where I'm trying to assume these people have the barest idea what they're doing.

See, I feel like AI might have the actual solution to this problem. We can overcome the economic issues with setting up SMR infrastructure the same way AI has powered through all their economic problems: setting VC money in fire and trust that the smokescreen will hold out for another funding round.

Once the reactors exist, I'm assuming that their operation can be relatively cheap for whoever ends up owning the actual plants once the AI bubble pops and the datacenters around them are shut down or repurposed.

Man, who could have predicted that entering a close business relationship with Microsoft as a software company was a potentially bad idea.

At least the product is AI so Microsoft's incorporation is largely guaranteed to be a massive loss.

That's a pretty good presentation summary. I'd be interested in watching a vid of the full presentation just to see where the details get filled in.

Of course the original resource that gets into this in real depth, especially the scams that are at the heart of it, is probably the Meads v Meads reasons written by Justice JD Rooke of Alberta.

Honestly I feel like trying to find the root of his bullshit and how specifically it's so radically off-base is actually kind of an important part of the project Otherwise the follower crowd will just claim that he's not being given a fair shake, when he was obviously talking about (insert a brief and misleading explanation of the circle thing that actually does try to make it make sense).

That's what the whole narrative is built on, after al I'll.

Common mistake, but David is from the UK. He was actually just looking online for ways to improve wheelchair accessibility in a multistory house. On a lift-shopping website.

Did Sam anticipate the easily foreseeable avalanche of AI slop, decide that proof of humanity was a worthwhile investment, and only then notice that all the suggested search completions for "proof of" were crypto?

But users like engagement! Which means seeing that the person wrote a thing and not reading the thing and making a human connection with someone who is, y'know, engaged in conversation.

I know chatbots don't track meaning, but I'm pretty sure words still mean things.

I can also hear Timnit Gebru wailing in despair all the way from my house, because this is exactly the kind of AI-reinforced bias that she was talking about while everyone was arguing about whether to listen to the doom cult. These are not theoretical problems with the technology; they are fully extant and easily demonstrable. The more these systems are integrated into processes that effect actual people the more often we'll see this kind of thing happen.

Less well known, but perhaps more interesting given that the phrase blue blood has already been used.