Don’t they have enough warheads to scorch the whole planet twice already?

What will be worse without this deal?

If only was about what is good for his business…

They want to keep people poor ignorant and powerless.

Why? People in that state are the easiest to manipulate, use and abuse.

I was against these kind of policies, but now that I saw Elon’s position I’m reconsidering.

My logic: The enemy of a paedophile is a friend of kids.

I 100% agree with everything you said.

The sad reality is that is extremely difficult, and in most cases imposible to restrict kids phone and social media usage.

Is the equivalent of not having the X cool toy, clothing or shoes of the moment but exponentially critical for not being a pariah.

The only way to revert this situation would be a majority or parents agreeing to restrict their kids at the same time.

This doesn’t happen because parents are distracted and consumed by, you guessed it, phones and social media.

Its like the serpent that eats its tail, a self fulfilling never ending enshitification of the human condition.

Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of centralisation.

6 months ago you could set up a server for running a decent local llm for under 800.

By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.

I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.

Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that’s done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.

I get your point that this last part doesn’t scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.

Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.

Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).

But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…

Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!

My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

That’s my best case.

Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.

Not sure about that.

Nuclear energy is safer than ever.

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

Clinging to oil is like refusing to replace your horse with a car.

I don’t know man, at this point I’m not sure what is the distraction anymore…

I mean, Trump will die in a decade max, the shit that they are doing will damage the whole world for a hundred years.

I sincerely hope you find some peace in your life.

Woow, this escalated quickly! Chill the fuck down 🥶

Oh… That would be swell. First we ought to remove greed from human nature.

So you are telling me that in your ideal world only people that excel in their field should be compensated?

While also telling that musicians should make music just for the pure joy of it and not for living?

Bear in mind that most stars had a lowly start, by replacing entry level jobs with AI you will likely destroy a lot of potential.

Money is the way people are payed for their labour in order to transact for goods and services.

When a government or central bank possesses the hability to expand the money supply, it can dilute the currency’s value. This process, known as inflation, systematically diminishes the purchasing power of an individual’s wages and savings.

However, the consequences extend beyond the erosion of personal wealth. Persistent inflation, even at a seemingly modest rate like 3% per year, creates a powerful incentive for perpetual economic growth. For a company to simply preserve its value against rising costs and a devaluing currency, it must generate returns that outpace the rate of inflation. This fosters an environment where businesses are pressured to expand continuously.

If we accept that money is the primary channel for economic energy and that productive employment is essential for a healthy society, this framework raises a critical question. A system that structurally requires constant growth for mere survival, rather than for meeting genuine demand, draws comparisons to pathological processes. Some would argue it resembles a cancer: a system whose logic of endless expansion can threaten the stability of the larger organism it inhabits.

Money should be a store of value and medium of exchange.

The issue with our current monetary system is it’s controlled by states.

The only way out of this failed experiment is a money that cannot be controlled by anyone.

Completely agree. Greed as displayed by Billionaires is a clear sign of mental illness. Instead most people look up to these lunatics…

Car makers test exactly that, and for good measure since cars can and do crash!

What are you suggesting, that we buy cars that didn’t pass crash tests?

To me it seems like you arguing something similar for AI.