SpaceCowboy

I think what’s happening is everyone is operating entirely for their own self interest, and after awhile those interests start syncing up. So there’s no conscious conspiracy, but people are working together towards a common goal.

It would be more comforting if it were a conscious conspiracy, at least then there would be a goal set by conscious people. But I don’t think there is actually anyone at the wheel just all of the parts of a machine working together while we drive off a cliff.

Social media is definitely used to control people and yeah making people hate is the way they’re controlling people. But it’s a mess of foreign interests and moneyed interests. Foreign interests don’t want societal cohesion in their adversaries to weaken them. Moneyed interests don’t want cohesion so we can’t get it together enough to tax them and regulate their businesses. So they promote radicalization and demonization of centrists and disgusting politics on both the far right and far left to keep everyone divided.

Sure there’s plans, maybe even some ribbon cutting with some gold shovels to “break ground” or whatever. These are things you do when running a Big Store type of scam.

I’m reminded of the episode of TNG where they trapped Moriarity in a simulation so he would think he had taken over the ship.

Maybe we can just have an internet just for billionaires where they have AI produce internet content so they can advertise useless AI products to AI bots run by other billionaires while the rest of us go on with our normal lives in the real world?

Luckily two and a half years ago I decided it was time for a new computer. I go more than a decade between new PCs so it was just really dumb luck that I got a new computer when I did. And the reason I can go so long between computers is because I always get way more RAM than I need when I get a new one.

So given the current state of things, it’s a little awkward to admit how much RAM is in my computer.

It’s because it’s a Ponzi scheme. Huge amounts of investment dollars are being dumped into AI and anything related to AI. If you build any kind of chips that are used in AI datacenters, you suddenly have a bunch of money invested in your company. What do you do with it? You make a deal with OpenAI (or one of the other ones) that you’ll invest that money into them if they agree to buy a bunch of chips from you. Now you have revenue on books and are showing a reasonable return on that investment.

If you were a chip manufacturer and actually believed that there was a big future in AI, you’d be using those investment dollars to build some more chip fabs. And some of these companies are doing that. But overall, moving money to another company so they will order chips for datacenters that aren’t built yet (and may never be built) is just bubble ponzi shenanigans.

Computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly. You don’t buy hardware today so you can install that hardware in a datacenter that won’t be online for another year.

There were efforts to move down the anti-trust path when Biden was President. But too many Americans voted for a billionaire convicted of fraud, and all investigations into any billionaire disappeared and those that were already convicted of crimes were pardoned.

You can think it’s my attitude that caused this but really it’s ignorance that made things this way.

Yeah and Russia shares intel with Iran.

No longer a “system of laws not people” anymore. If it ever was.

It’s owned by a corporation. Corporations have the rights of a person. But unlike actual people, you can’t arrest a corporation.

Because the American people were stupid enough to vote for them.

Yeah, and you could rent VCRs long before that.