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At least pets.com tried to actually make money selling dog food.

AI crap is now at the “monetize lonely people for their AI girlfriends” while burning more money than pets.com ever did in a month.

Hopefully it all collapses before we destroy ourselves with data centers and bailouts for the rich.

I think all the screaming about drumming up uses for data centers we don’t actually need is to make the poor pay for the artifacts of the surveillance state.

I keep thinking the plan is clear: beyond some level of compute, they’ll attempt some massive surveillance system that makes China look benign by comparison. They’ll rent out any idle servers to the US Government, thus keeping the rich in place forever.

So it’s absolutely correct: the AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble. It wasn’t trying to prop up or enable a surveillance state par excellence and destroying our financial system and environment to do so.