Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:54:30 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <20250820085430.00003bb7@gmail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3bff8fb0713485d22064087a675cb930"; logging-data="400263"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IyX9mWuboR50fSL/sYVX0LZqoJ7s9kc8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:S006Dc52T9re2SzWLrnnUV3VRjE= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71763 On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:46:24 -0400 c186282 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. * (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.