Technology

If someone made a movie with Donald Trump as president and the whole AI slop in 2010, people would not like it because how unrealistic it is.

Leave it on long enough to fully kill FB, Insta, X, etc. THEN shut it down. We're like 1/2 way there already

I think they're too big to bail out at this point

Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn't borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We'd just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once

I am at a loss to what that would even look like. The bubble popping would mean the admission of AI (LLMs) not having a viable path to usefulness or return, so then what would a bail out even be? Money? To what end, the bubble would have burst and the idea of AI (LLMs) being anything but a money pit would be what makes the bubble burst in the first place. Unless they can show a path to profit (they can't) then the bubble will burst in time or continue in an endless zombie state where they just pretend that somehow AI (LLMs) are the future while burning capital. If it does go into a zombie state (as so many other things in the us market are becoming) then the whole market will just slowly fail as the "hype" turns into disappointment. The only reason that the zombie state would be preferable is that entities need to invest their money somewhere and maybe some other thing in the market can take AI (LLMs) place, but even then why bother bailing out anyone?

I think you're part right. I think they'll attempt a bailout, but I don't believe Trump's appointments and the administration they're creating have the skill to plan or execute a bailout (or admit to failure enough to identify that they need one in a timely manner)

They're more likely to ram the economy full speed into rock bottom, then blame an outgroup ("the Democrats did this") and pretend nothing could have been done.

I wanna say you're wrong, because AI is absolutely not an essential service - like say a water or power company failing would be (or arguably banks). But knowing how deeply the AI tech bros have sucked up to and supported Trump I have to sigh and agree with you that they will probably be rescued from their own stupidity by the taxpayer.

https://archive.ph/9b8Ae

sooner than later, "agentic AI" will replace the "employee cost burden". I presume they'll charge per AI agent and produce revenue at scale.

everything you see in politics nowadays is a race against the clock to create infrastructure to "deal with" the unwashed, unemployed, hungry masses. UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.

Here's the first admission I've found of what's on the way: https://fortune.com/2025/11/20/gen-z-college-grad-unemployment-could-hit-25-percent-warns-us-senator-unprecedented-disruption-ai/

Well, the stock market on the whole is about gambling. Legalized gambling that fucks over small-time investors. So ... why should long-term viability matter? The gamblers want their cash, that's what they're there for, and they don't care about bankruptcy or mass economic collapse.

AI companies will try to worm their way inside governments around the world, to "enhance" them. Then they'll become "essential" cost of running said governments, being "impossible" to remove without serious disruption.

Simple, you invest in the company, wait for the stock price to grow and sell before it collapses. Everyone knows it will collapse eventually but for now there's still money to be made.