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Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns

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On 20/08/2025 16:54, John Ames wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:46:24 -0400
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> 
>> In any case, there has been VAST VAST investment in this tech - but
>> it's returning almost NOTHING for all the investment.
>>
>> NOT a good business model.
>>
>> The evil GOAL ... disemploy almost all of the very annoying Humans.
>>
>> BUT ... WHO then has the money to Buy Your Stuff ???
> 
> This is the end result of decades of business culture that promotes
> idiots who make impressive-sounding noises over people with actual
> line-of-business knowledge and/or real management savvy - a bunch of
> billionaire morons lighting money on fire in hopes of obsoleting the
> workers they've already mostly reduced to wage-slaves out of pure
> greed, with no consideration for whether the thing they're burning it
> on will ever do the thing they hope it will* or whether their lunatic
> gamble doesn't stand a real chance of cratering the very economy that
> gives their billions any real-world value** in the first place.
> 
All driven by the financial emancipation of consumers with far more 
money than sense..

> * (It won't, at least not the particular technology that all their
>    moron AI-startup CEO friends are all-in on.)
> ** (It does.)
> 
> Just *beyond* insane - reckless, irresponsible squandering for the sake
> of nothing at all beyond sociopathic contempt for everyone they
> consider beneath them. Sadly, we're not likely to get the "investors
> jumping from windows" phase of the crash - that'd require a level of
> basic self-awareness that these flesh-suit simulacra are simply not
> capable of - but we can hope that in the fallout they might at least be
> eaten alive by starving peasants.
> 
Don't hold back, Say what you think...
 From a European perspective the problem is that the USA is simply too 
rich for its level of wisdom

It plays with expensive toys while the rest of the world struggles to 
eat. And equates the pure dumb luck of inhabiting a continent stuffed 
with resources but not people, as a demonstration of innate superiority, 
rather than good fortune.


-- 
"Corbyn talks about equality, justice, opportunity, health care, peace, 
community, compassion, investment, security, housing...."
"What kind of person is not interested in those things?"

"Jeremy Corbyn?"

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Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-20 02:46 -0400
  Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns JJenssen <joemajen@arcor.de> - 2025-08-20 12:09 +0200
  Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:49 +0200
    Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:23 +0100
  Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-20 08:54 -0700
    Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:20 +0100
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      Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-21 13:59 -0700
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      Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:22 +0100
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