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Re: "AI" Gobbling Up World Mem Chip Supply

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:50:55 -0500
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> Oh, and SOMETHING better than LLM 'AI' is decidedly needed, QUICK.
> The energy/resource curve for those things is just insane.

Define "needed." Absolutely *none* of this shenaniganry has been needed
by *anyone* save for the brainless ghouls in the C-suite who fantasize
about being able to obsolete knowledge workers the way they devastated
skilled labor via industrial automation & offshoring in the late 20th/
early 21st century.

But they're not gonna *get* that unless and until someone "cracks" true
artificial intelligence (what the tech-fantasists call "AGI.") And they
aren't gonna get *that* any time soon; they're not even looking for it,
because they're know-nothings who don't understand a thing about the
tech they're pumping the money firehose into and are perfectly happy to
be swindled by a career liar who looks good on the teevee and makes
soothing noises about how glorified Markov chains are *so* the Future
Of Everything Forever and *absolutely* gonna replace all their pesky
white-collar workers Real Soon Now.

Which, on top of being a farce and the harbinger of a global financial
disaster, is ironically enough choking out any *real* research into
machine learning and artificial intelligence, because all the money is
going into taking dead-end tech and doing *as much of it as possible*
in the hopes that this will magically make it not dead-end tech.

What's *needed* is for the bubble to burst as quickly and decisively as
possible, so that we don't spend another three years exhausting every
last bit of our financial, industrial, and energy resources on gorram
*chatbots.*

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"AI" Gobbling Up World Mem Chip Supply c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-15 22:50 -0500
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