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He buys someone else’s good idea, promotes it as his idea, sues to say it’s his idea, the media buys that it’s his idea and touts him as a genius again, and he goes public with that company and merges them all once again

A desire and need for more vodka

And tracking down dissenters has become entirely possible down to the individuals thanks to how social media and technology has been implemented.

Yep, and that’s a big national security risk. We may have massive oil reserves and processing but it’s for light sweet crude and the us doesn’t have the heavy dark stuff we need presently, so without building the infrastructure to process what we have differently, including any liquefied natural gas, we would run out of stocks in 10-15 years should we get cut off globally for reasons of war or finding ourselves sanctioned for bad behaviors. It’s a gamble they’re willing to take, and it likely will pay off for the wealthy, and they won’t care if it fails for reasons I listed because they’re already wealthy and insulated somewhat from global events - but the less wealthy leaders who live within the US might not fare so well should it come to a breakdown of those systems and mass panic.

Kinda too late, reality tv and streaming fame (so the for profit algorithms) did most of the work by convincing everybody they should aspire to look plastic, act like an asshole, get famous, and produce nothing of real substance.

What’s gonna be hilarious is when there’s a revolution in how training, storages and utilization of the models’ neural networks are understood and require drastically less computing power and these data centers get abandoned, companies collapse, an economic collapse analogous to the dotcom boom actually happens, but utilities remain high in cost and still no one can afford shit because the wealthy once against failed to invest in the right industries and future technology like renewables. We could be the world leader in renewables if we moonshot developing tech that relied on resources we actually have domestically and what we can trade responsibly without putting national security at risk, but instead we are still reliant on a dying fossil industry and have guaranteed a near future economic collapse.

“Now watch this drive”

You forgot the part where they’re on the golf course and already know each other and are acting like there’d be an interview because pretending to be poor and like the world is based to any degree on merit is actually hilarious to them.

What’s your rig?

For those who survive a fiery crash and have time in their wheelchairs to consider their life choices, despite never having reconsidered a thing thus far?

It’s not actually interesting if you’re actually interested in progress that’s useful to mankind and not just masturbatory and ridiculous novelty accessible only by chuds that just exist to show off their ill gotten wealth.

Apparently is was a single chip. One chip isn’t obvious to most people, only people who recognize nearly or actually all the other chips. Someone discovered it by being an expert on these boards and took a look at the design and said “I don’t recognize this chip, wtf is this”

Does your ai company bite?

No but it can hurt you in other ways.

Ai company: we’ve got to destroy the planet and world economy to break even, and it still might kill us all even then

Yep, and the concern shouldn’t just be for yourself - authorities will clone the phones and then comb your contacts and social media and then add to their systems compiling relational data and use that to target people, often innocent people. Your phone data won’t just be used to harass or inconvenience or stress you out, it’ll be used to harm other people. You should care about that.

I’ve been an artist for over 4 decades, studied art, taught art… and you are correct. While AI almost assuredly won’t be revolutionizing art, music, movies, culture (beyond a temporary “ai is so neat, lol” trend), it doesn’t have to in order to collapse those industries. Those industries move in cycles and a shit ton of elements, trends are repeated throughout history. So while occasionally an artist or group of artists change everything and redirect the course of their fields, things always cycle back to some basic ideas and forms that previous generations have already explored, so humans are move than happy to just enjoy what’s already been, slightly tweaked. Every story is in Homer’s Odyssey, or in Shakespeare’s prose. Every advert uses basics elements to entice, to attract, to maintain attention, to be memorable. Every genre of music builds on the same chords and fuses elements from generations past.

Ai doesn’t have to innovate and reinvent entire industries, it just has to “disrupt” them enough by getting good enough to be just good enough, and that will make already slim profit margins and already bare markets untenable for already starving artists. All that will be left will be those that are already rich, already entrenched and employed by the largest corporations that pay for artisanal craftsmanship, or those that are wealthy enough to cosplay as serious artists for self gratification. None of those will produce satisfying art, none will do it for necessity, they’ll do it for selfish and opulent reasons, which results in soulless and gauche art that might as well never be seen by the public and just circulate the walls of the private spaces enjoyed solely by the ruling class.

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