I doubt anyone is planning to sue open source OS developers over this,

Why not? Microsoft would love for open source OS developers to all be shut down. This is just another way to attack them.

They feel empowered, partially, because they’re basically anonymous. Everyone is basically a faceless tank on the road.

I think the inability to communicate makes road rage worse, actually. Simple matters that could be solved by a quick comment become rage inducing because there’s literally nothing you can do about them.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Not necessarily!

She might just be ideologically aligned with her bosses and wants people to starve.

Her choices were “follow instructions” or “find a new job”.

They’re mountainous. Surely pumped water storage would be better than chemical batteries?

Yeah, green energy and batteries and electric vehicles and the like are the future, even if the regime is trying to stop the march of history by ending all the government incentives and canceling projects and doing trade wars against China’s green tech industry. There’s no where else for the capital to go. Trump can stand in front of the avalanche and scream “STOP!” all he wants, he might be run over by the sheer momentum that’s building right now once the AI bubble stops parasitically feeding on the real economy.

Probably not, though.

I mostly expect the US to enter a Lost Decade of low growth+high inflation, and for China to inherit the world economy.

It’s the opposite. The non-AI economy is in recession because the AI bubble is sucking the oxygen out of the rest of the market.

Which actually presents a possible upside to the bubble bursting: maybe the rest of the economy will actually recover.

Probably not. But maybe!

When I was younger it seemed politics were more rational and cruelty never seemed to be the point of doing nothing.

The cruelty was outside our borders. The rational, reasonable debate was for domestic issues. Foreigners got the bullet.

As the empire collapses the cruelty turns inwards i.e. fascism.

I think the AI bubble is actually a deeper, more structural data bubble. There isn’t actually a case for profitability, they’re just doing it out of investor demands and inertia and because That’s Just How We Do Things.

There’s also longer work days (it’s not like peasants spent very much time farming in the middle of the winter) and less work shared between the clan/gens/extended family. Our time is spent productively, it’s just that almost all of it is spent working for a wage and and doing chores to maintain a living space. A few minutes squeezed in to relax isn’t the problem.

That pales in comparison to the massive time investment of having a full time job and taking care of a living space by yourself (cooking, cleaning, shopping, repairs, etc). This is unique to our era, we used to not work as many hours and we used to live in more communal family spaces where work was evenly shared so that everyone had lighter loads.

The fact that I can squeeze in 20 minutes of posting a day isn’t the reason I can’t go on 3 hour walks like I used to.

Time isn’t free.

This is why I think we need to get organized. There are these spontaneous masses of people who would be very receptive to libreware and federation, but the message isn’t getting out to them. You have to be a turbonerd to even be aware of this stuff, but the outrage is fertile ground if the message could just get out of obscure corners of the internet.

Yeah, but in this case the passengers are committed to not laying a hand on the driver as he drives them off the cliff.

Yeah I think the focus should be on technological sovereignty, not abstinence. We need control over our data, control over our software, control over our devices, control over our hardware, and through these things we can gain control over our lives while still accessing these extremely useful tools. We need our own search engines, our own operating systems, our own applications, our own email, our own social media, our own video hosting, etc etc. We can never go back, the only way out is through.

This is extremely hard and expensive, though. It’ll require mass organization of millions of people, we can’t do it as individuals.

No, you basically just accused other instances of being hysterical leftists that think everyone is a fascist.

A more accurate characturized way to describe them is reddit.world

The hardware is specialized for chatbots, it’s not just something they can plug-and-play for other use cases. That means using it for other computing tasks is even less efficient per kWh and per litre of water, which will make it hard to justify the resource requirements.

Surely some of this hardware can find new life, but assets will be stranded.

The most optimistic take I’ve seen: AI is a drain on the entire economy that sucks up all investment and this is why the rest of the economy is basically in a recession. Once the bubble pops, investors will flood back into the real economy and correct the problem.

I’m not optimistic.