Needed this today 🤙🏿

I agree. Hype and bullshit layered on top of none of this actually being cost justified. I.e. with fiat gamesmanship subsidizing the entire AI industry right now, users of all sizes are not exposed to reasonable true cost, therefore, AI today is far more likely to be applied (shoehorned) in ways that are malinvestments and misapplications rather than anything that is value accretive for anyone.

Madex, I believe you may need to start financiering things then (or more thing if you’re already doing that). Pointing out problems in Bitcoin only earns one the joy of being responsible for fixing them 🤭

You know this way better than me tho I’m sure

We aren’t seeing this tho, but are “shown” this constantly on social media. The world has objectively never been safer. It’s could just be 1000x better than it is already, but we must destroy fiat incentives to have this.

I think I understand your intent here but this feels a bit zero sum to me. In a finite money system the median income that open can mathematically have (as well a significant margin below this), MUST be enough. In this system, as far as prices are concerned, the billions of people with 100K or less sats become far more important than the 1M or less people who have 100M or more sats.

Yes, it is a generalization, but one that I also believe to be fairly universally applicable in this case. There is a certain philosophical underpinning here - essentially to believe is “machine intelligence” one must internal debase their assessment of human intelligence. I do not believe is “machine intelligence” and “artificial intelligence” is an oxymoron.

The map, not matter how rich and detailed and immersive, can never be territory. Similarly the tool is not the talent. Saying “the machine is so smart” is like saying “this calculator is good at Math” or “my POSCA paint pens are really good at art.” The machine or tool is an inert object outside of the human operator.

As to what nebulous and generalized “existential dangers” that AI may pose (note, AI people never make this specific, always generalized), perhaps there is not much that can be done other than actively opting out of engagement with these systems when you can. Thats what the individual can do.

Beyond that, I don’t think of “what should be done” (ie appealing to be centralized decision authority - as this the same thinkings that leveraged the fear of nuclear weapons to profane the blessing of nuclear power while only INCREASING the number of nuclear weapons in play) - but I do think it terms of what I think will happen.

And what I think will happen is this. OpenAI and Anthropic are AI service provider / hardware buyer duopolies that rest atop Nvidia as the hardware producer monopoly. OpenAI and Anthropic are perpetually insolvent and have no path to profitability - they are capital destruction machines fueled by fiat VC slush. Eventually the bill will come due and all services that are dependent on OpenAI or Anthropic will either be squeezed to death by cost increases or while die when OpenAI and Anthropic collapse financially. They may be bailed out by the government, but this will truly set us on the path we of realtime USD currency debasement, with the government bankrupt itself entirely.

SO, I think AI can only be a useful technology if it’s true costs are borne by the market around it. After the collapse of OpenAI and Anthropic (and general stock market value destruction), the costs of AI will not longer have “free money” lined up to paper over. Individuals and companies will have to operate their AI decentralized at the compute level. And this recognition of costs will ensure that AI, where is it used, will be used in a way that adds value for humanity.

Short of this AI is just another fiat malinvestment. The tool itself and fear of the tool will both be leveraged by people who bear not actual costs to attempt to lock in their control over others who are too lazy or immiserated to understand that they can opt out (though opting out has its own costs). They don’t actually have the resources to achieve this…unless of course they can conquer your mind first, as this is the ultimate force multiplier.

The creators of AI are deluded materialists who, in their insane hubris, have first convinced themselves that through the powers of advanced widgetization and commodification, that they have replicated the human soul, or even created a captive god. They are fools and the sooner we cast them off, the better.

Also, policies that have constrained the advent of nuclear power generation are quite possibly the single greatest travesty of the modern era, prolonging human immersion in many parts of the world. While the world is objectively way better than it was 100 years ago, it is a general impoverishment of our minds that obstructs and obscures just how much better it should be today, everywhere.

Anyone who claims to care about the environment, human welfare, the subjugation of the poor and disposed, or the future of humanity but who opposes globally scaled nuclear power is either very sadly confused, or a particularly dangerous liar.

The AI “Permanent Underclass” narrative is a ruse. Just like the “AI apocalypse.” Just like “Climate Apocalypse.” Just like “Energy Scarcity.”

The Enemy wins everything when one assigns to it imagined powers that it does not have.

All of the above narratives are just foils to see if, without even lifting a finger, the powers that be can get you to demand nothing, accept even less, and then thank your captors for their benevolence.

Reject these things and they ceases to be.

#Plebchain