But you repeat yourself.

DAMMIT! All I needed was blockchain!

Best summary of the AI craze I've seen so far.

I guess the line starts here. I'm looking for guitar and amp sponsors. Coincidentally, they should have a fairly significant supply of hookers and blow available just for their usual endorsers, and I'd be happy with just the scraps. I'm old, and my tolerance isn't real high for either.

But...

Yeah, right. Human nature alone says you got new shiny for free, you'll be enamored with new shiny, regardless of how often new shiny arrives in your cave.

Not gone, but the herd will thin, and probably more along the lines of a century or so. I think in the end there will be small pockets of humans left, those who are now considered extremely wealthy, though that wealth won't mean much when we get the right set of circumstances to wipe out the electronics we've woven so tightly into society that even a small-scale Carrington event in galactic terms would mean disaster. We rush headlong toward the dumbest possible outcomes because it makes profit for those wealthy folks, at the expense of everyone and every thing else. Eventually, that mentality will lead to a population decimation. Nature can be fucked with only so long before it comes crashing back in on those who believe themselves superior to her. The universe doesn't much care how many game tokens you've accumulated in this life. It'll smack you just the same.

That said, there are bound to be a few bunkers around that will keep small populations of the wealthy and their families alive for a few more generations. Whether they're smart enough to trade mating partners in time to prevent genetic stagnation from ending the species will be an experiment we won't know the results of until the time comes. And most of us will be long gone by then.

There is *ZERO* chance a company buying WB today would make something as fun and entertaining as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

While there have been shortages in the past, we've never seen an entire industry segment become priority one to the point where consumer facing brands simply disappear in the hopes of filling that need. This seems some new phenomenon, and one that seems unsustainably over-the-top at the moment, but still one that appears set to drive the entirety of the computer market.

If Megacity existed, I guarantee you they'd have at least one of the judges in statue form looming over it.

The problem for the west with this sort of philosophy is that there is great profit potential is selling weapons to both sides in combat zones, and nothing creates a combat zone like insanity run amok. This is reason #2 that the entire middle east is one of the western world's obsessions. Reason #1 of course is oil. And while Israel may not be a provider of #1, they're damned good to the military industrial complex when it comes to #2. And let's face it, we long ago decided that profit comes before any other concern. In fact, we play a part in keeping the insanity stoked high and wide, because it's far more profitable that way.

CHA-CHING, baby. CHA-CHING.

AI investment is growing exponentially and has been for some time. Meanwhile, AI productivity is already slowing, and shows further signs that as we move forward it will slow still more. While tech companies are attempting to shovel more of it at the businesses and end-users that rely on them, there's only so much the current LLM driven systems are going to be able to accomplish without some massive change in basic operation that, thus far, doesn't appear to be happening. And while they continue to rake in investment money to continue to build out infrastructure for the fantasized giant leap forward in productivity that LLM driven systems are supposed to provide us, even *IF*, and that's a might giant if, but if they managed to accomplish *EVERY* goal the companies behind them are promising they would be able to accomplish, there is still no chance at all that they will be able to generate enough revenue to ultimate pay for the expenditure.

Do I think there is some potential in the current LLM obsession to create future productivity gains? Yes. Do I believe that anyone involved in it is holding a realistic view of how far that productivity gain will actually take us? Absolutely, positively not. This is a bubble. A bubble built on fantasy that has a foundation of bullshit mixed heavily with snake oil. And when the "correction" comes, it's going to be so much like a bubble popping that most will not be able to tell the difference.

I know, our world doesn't much care about reality these days, but reality has a funny way of reasserting itself in the most brutal and cold ways. And the longer and harder people try to fight it, the more implosively it collapses on them when it finally does come back to them. At the rate we're going, attempting to tie up the entire economy in the hype cycle, we're gonna make the economic implosion make the Titan Submersible look like a kid's game gone a tiny bit wrong.

This makes me genuinely sad. The only cars left selling new are sports cars / other forms of gas guzzler.

Note to self: Check used in Mexico next time you need a vehicle.

How is what we're doing now progressing humanity? We're concentrating so much of build-out to make sure we keep funneling wealth, and resources, to a select few, that we're literally neglecting entire populations of people in favor of making sure we keep funneling wealth and resources to these select few. How is this progress? How is this helping anything long term? Unless the end-goal is a lowered population due to dwindling resources, I can't see how anything we're doing as a collective society is helping the average person. In fact, it seems policies across the board are specifically focused on creating situations to hurt the overall population, in favor of propping up those who already have plenty.

In short, what the fuck are we even doing?

Climate scientists didn't really overplay their hand. The media took what they reported and whipped it into panic inducing headlines. Actual climate scientists are now having to deal with a legacy of media hype on the subject on top of doing their actual jobs, because people are remembering the hype cycles, and then blaming the science rather than the shit-slingers.

Sometimes it pays to dig beneath the headlines and the media itself. I learned this lesson as a teen when they were reporting on something we were doing with our dairy cattle and showing all sorts of scare footage that bore zero resemblance to anything actually happening. Turns out, media's been hype-cycling everything they can for at least as long as any of us have been alive, and the truth behind their stories is often far different than what ends up in the reporting.