They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.

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I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

I'm pretty sure BarKlanBitch "volunteers" by giving sermons in his Klan Crossburning Incest Shit Trailer Park, like all the GOPedophile Klan Bitch Treason Cunts.

Do us a favor, off yourself so you don't waste the money that would have gone to you, BlahTheKlanFuckingShitragCuntboy Nazi Bitch. You GOPedophile Retardican Klan Party Fucks are all a cancer we should get our society some chemo for anyways.

Pretty much every headline can stop right there. ICE are Klan Retarded Treason Bitches, and the rest of DHS are just as much Treason Cunt Retards.

You could make the same observation about an obstacle course: completely artificial, simple engineering to make one no human can pass, but typically dialed just to where some humans can manage it.

What are weight classes other than a way to artificially give people opponents they can beat?

As far as sports go the point is simply that the outcome isn't guaranteed. That leaves room for human ingenuity, risk taking, and showmanship, with possibility of both reward and consequence. (In this case, even if the robots were a literal pushover, the spectators and maybe even the opponent couldn't have known that for sure. Any future of the sport would have to adapt to preserve those unknowns between bouts.)

Texas, the Shit State that was barely a country before they wanted to be a Slave State. Fuck Texas, it's a White Supremacist Treason Shit Slavemonger Klan Bitch state.

Debt is indeed a rising threat. Us federal debt has reached $40 trillion (greater than the total GDP), with interest payments now the second-largest expenditure after Social Security. The bill works out to $4k per person, or $12k per tax return filed.

Really consider that the first $12k on your tax return bought you nothing. Not just nothing personally, it funded no library, no road, no food stamp, it just evaporated into financial fees. And we're hitting a higher-interest era where borrowing is more expensive.

AI related growth and investment is what's been keeping the present economy floating in the wake of tariffs, accounting for something like 30-50% of recent GDP growth and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

It also the only thing that could possibly result in enough growth to offset the rising debt ratio and prevent a painful economic future. (Even then the growth will have to be on the very high end of projections.)

So it's weird to come away from that and imply AI is imposing an existential risk ("The Real AI Threat") due to "weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence". That's like if your take on medicine was "medical research is a catastrophic thing to get involved with, instead of curing all cancers we might only cure certain varieties, do you want a future in which you die from those cancers?"

EGS is so shittily coded that it refuses to use anything but your discrete GPU on a laptop that has one. So you HAVE to force-close it if you don't want your laptop to fail to sleep properly.

"We made it faster, and we let the AI load it with Chinese spyware!"

You know that cookie spooky socialism crap. If that happens you will quickly see the population not just stop growing but shrink.
Oh shit, did rsilvergun just say the quiet part out loud? The only kernel of truth in your entire screed, is that particular line. The population will shrink, but due to starvation that always follows a socialist takeover. So thanks for being honest for once.

H1B abuse has been happening for decades. "Unicorn Job" listings are an indication that the company is just doing the motions and knows they won't hire an American. This change needed to happen even if for the Trump admin it's a Stopped Clock Moment.

Stopped Clock moments. They're doing the right thing but for intensely wrong reasons. (Gotta wonder about JD Vance though, with his mail order Beard-Bride to hide the fact that he's one of Peter Thiel's paid buttboys.)