Technically spicy autocorrect is still AI. But technically a simple checkers program on a $5 Chinese gaming console is also AI, as long as it implements just some small aspect of intelligence. That technicality is exploited like crazy by the LLM hypers.
The trick is to be rich. Wealth and power does things to a brain and makes the empathy circuits wither and die, so perfect for getting even more rich.
Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.
Children, terrorism, criminals or drugs. If one argument stops working they’ll move to the next one.
Yeah, you’re living in state capitalism in the USA these days.
Step 2: after the bubble pops buy everything for pennies on the dollar. repurpose AI and datacenters for extremely invasive surveillance network and sell data and services to totalitarian governments
Tariffa and Hormuz makes things expensive. People buy less so companies sell less. Layoffs everywhere.
Play store just checks what location you put in for Google account registration and shows the app or not. It’s the same for showing region locked movies.
AI companies are switching to token based billing. Money is running out and heavy AI users are going to have to pay closer to the real price. People suddenly having to pay 10 times as much. You can just as well hire an intern for that money.
There isn’t enough terrorism to justify things with that, so children it is.
Fuel tax only pays 25% of the cost of roads.
Later on the top 1% will start to extract all wealth from the 1-10% class. Then the 0.1% will do the same. Concentration of wealth will continue.
These drivers are their own business and they’re just maximizing revenue according to market incentives, just like any other business. So Pizza Hut has enshittified themselves. Well done. I guess it looked a lot better in the excel sheet and presentation.
That’s a good way to start a general strike in the country.
It’s not because they want to change, but because droughts, diseases, cost of fertilizer and the like will force them to look for other cheaper ways to produce meat or they’ll have to go vegan.
The cyberpunk name is scop: single celled organing protein. Real meat is there only for the rich.
Yeah, we were all sitting in the office with headphones to isolate from the office noise and distractions so we could concentrate and getting work done.
Just ask who got the gains in the last industrial revolution and who got to live in the slums, and how they plan to do things differently now.
It’s in practice a class based society with the big families at the top like ancient nobility. Seems they’re having a little “let them eat cake” moment.
And preparing everyone for invasive mass surveillance. “If you have nothing to hide” is going to be really popular.