Comment Economic Crash (Score -1, Troll) 131
The entire economy is currently in a crashed state. Money printing went out of control, home compute is becoming unaffordable, no one wants any of these AI data centers, none of your OpenAI/Anthropic subscriptions even remotely cover the runtime cost of compute, much less the sunk cost of the infrastructure. It's all been run into the ground and we're all going through the motions like everything is fine. There was a term coined for continuing on in a collapse during the Soviet era: Hypernormalization.
We're distracted by irrelevant social issues, or people screaming about Orange Man (when really every single president in our lifetimes has been pushing towards this, unless you were alive during JFK, and we all know what really happened to him).
The data centers will get built, not by capitol raised through supply and demand, but because the governments of the world need the surveillance infrastructure to impose authoritarian, technocratic rule. That's the reason for "child safety" laws that are really digital identification laws designed to remove any remaining privacy anyone has.
Universal basic income only makes sense if there is zero resource scarcity. We don't have the dilithium crystals and replicators of Gene Rodenberry's universe. The Weighted Random Word/Code Generators are nowhere close to the level of Commander Data, nor are they "intelligent." They cannot reason, they just do a very fancy and compute intense predictive output. It's impressive, but transformers and attention blocks will never be an "AGI."
The technocratic class wants programmable money so you're only allowed to spend FOOD-COIN on x products and HOUSE-COIN on housing. Extreme control that can cut off anyone from their money should they say or think the wrong thing.
Universal Basic Income creates a permanent class tied to government gibs. It will be nothing like Star Trek and a whole lot more like The Expanse.
We're distracted by irrelevant social issues, or people screaming about Orange Man (when really every single president in our lifetimes has been pushing towards this, unless you were alive during JFK, and we all know what really happened to him).
The data centers will get built, not by capitol raised through supply and demand, but because the governments of the world need the surveillance infrastructure to impose authoritarian, technocratic rule. That's the reason for "child safety" laws that are really digital identification laws designed to remove any remaining privacy anyone has.
Universal basic income only makes sense if there is zero resource scarcity. We don't have the dilithium crystals and replicators of Gene Rodenberry's universe. The Weighted Random Word/Code Generators are nowhere close to the level of Commander Data, nor are they "intelligent." They cannot reason, they just do a very fancy and compute intense predictive output. It's impressive, but transformers and attention blocks will never be an "AGI."
The technocratic class wants programmable money so you're only allowed to spend FOOD-COIN on x products and HOUSE-COIN on housing. Extreme control that can cut off anyone from their money should they say or think the wrong thing.
Universal Basic Income creates a permanent class tied to government gibs. It will be nothing like Star Trek and a whole lot more like The Expanse.