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by belter 267 days ago
Crazy on how the current 400 Billion AI bubble is based on this being feasible...
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The rationale is that the AI companies are selling the shovels to both generate this pile as well as the ones we'll need to clean it up.
I vividly remember the image of one guy digging a hole and another filling it with dirt as a representation of government bureaucracy and similar. Looks like office workers are gonna have the same privilege.
> I vividly remember the image of one guy digging a hole and another filling it with dirt as a representation of government bureaucracy and similar.

To be clear, it wasn’t dirt that I envisioned being shoveled.

Oh, no confusion from my side!
And on externalizing costs - the actual humans who have to respond to bad vulnerability report spam.