Fun fact, early scripts for the original film had Humanity plugged in to share computational processing Power for the Machines, but the studios didn’t believe audiences could grasp that so it was changed to providing electricity.

Which is impossible, the whole feeding cycle for harvesting us as batteries would yield less power than just using the feed source for power.

Killing the entire species is absolutely less of a concern for investors than copyright violations.

Please. You’re giving me a headache. /s

Thank you! I’m quite proud of holding to my convictions, to the degree that I divested from every ETF in my retirement portfolio which was obligated to load up on the spacegrift stock, and to minimize my exposure in my taxable holdings wherever I could afford to.

I want to make sure that I don’t grow my wealth in a sleazy way.

Oh, you perhaps misunderstand me, friend. I’m saying their revenues are a momentary mirage, the liabilities aren’t.

They need income that substantiates the growth game and justifies the outlandish, impossible tidal wave of debt they are raising. Their competitors nipping at their heels and stealing all of their progress, and making it run on commodity hardware to boot, only narrows that field of play for justifying their market growth.

If you’re Tesla and unmasking your customer base revealed it was all just BYD all the way down (or, say, something TRULY absurd like everyone found out all of the cybertrucks were bought by SpaceX) then it would cast serious doubt about their viability with the next generation of customers targeted for that product.

Check out what portion of Anthropic revenues turned out to be processing distillation for others, namely Chinese market players.

A huge portion of their revenue basically came from their competitors using their horsepower against them to build the next, better mouse trap

Spacex really changed the game, forcing the markets to load up that ish in our 401(k)'s.

Next, when Musk threatens to “gift” every child spacex stock in their Trump accounts, it’s another form of using the general public as an exit , well artificially propping up the moonshot companies stock values.

It is a Master Class in forcing volatility into the financial lives of not just retail investors but Main Street people.

Sure, and maybe even some kind of suvversion system could lock one user out while the other is doing work, to avoid the kinds of conflicts that we’re talking about here.

All of that is a hard sell versus the experience of dropping into a document and seeing three cursors all entering data collaboratively, a la Google Sheets.

And I’m writing this to someone that’s trying to make myself at home using Grid raft, the vibecoded AI Slop Excel. If I had to share documents mid-production with anyone else at all, I would need something cloud-based.

It looks like bad training data, as they harvest all of their subscribers.

It looks like 2013 Microsoft having to unplug their early AI project from Twitter within 16 hours as the general public very deliberately turned it into a Neo-Nazi.

It looks like conserving tokens to conserve energy costs not expended on dissidents.