Fuck AI

Yeah, the economy has crashed, what, like 3 times in my life now?

Fuck the economy.

Better to rip off the band aid now

And the AI backs the people

🤖🗡️

Together, we are free

LAN party in the alley when we lose everything!

Sadly no. AI hardware does not relies on the same fundamentals as consumer hardware.

Long story short AI stuff use Float 4 or 8 because accuracy is not a factor. Games or physics simulation use Float 32 or 64.

If you are being slightly serious, I hate to break it to you, but the HPC equipment that is taking up all manufacturing capacity has limited consumer use. It's just so power hungry, specialized, and heavy.

I can assure you humanity seems dead set on destroying the environment no matter the means to get there.

I'd care about the economy if I had a real stake in it. We're all just serfs being used up and thrown away. The medical industry sucks the last bit of wealth anyone is lucky enough to build over their life time.

These are important criticisms to make about liberalism, the coercive power in of wage labour and private property are powerful tools of capital exactly because that precarity gives us less time, resources, and security to resist even the devaluing of our labour.

I don't know what the usability of this post and the image created here is, though. What you've presented here is still stuck in that commodity mentality. Is tech not celebrated now, when we can so easily cure diseases that we only named two centuries ago, or when people identify with internet culture? What level of democratization could even exist in an economy where the mass production of computer technology still exists when the very design of every computer we have depends on colonial extraction?

I've found it's more difficult to imagine a future worth living in when that imagination is only oriented around escaping reality. There are good outcomes from AI the same way there are bad outcomes, because neither have happened. The world doesnt just end when the economy collapses, and people aren't helpless to resist authoritarianism or capitalism. In the same way, imagining AI as a solution to the problems in the metropole by its capacity to fulfill devalued labour roles takes for granted what is needed to build an AI infrastructure like that, and whether this hope is dependent on the continued subjugation of others. Its a future based on maintaining the present, not improving it.

This isn't to say your comment or the actual post are pro-colonization, but just that we should question how much of our imagination of a positive future is based in the privilege that we experience today. Conversely, are you willing to live in a world where you are more materially insecure if it meant a global shift away from colonialism? Is it still motivating to consider a world where your labour is even more in demand because we no longer extract in a way that facilitates such an abundance of automation even down to your dishwasher and laundry machine?

Liberalism and capitalism depend on an immaterial world to exist as they are oriented around the imperative for infinite growth in a finite world, so it is important to remember that people will readily embrace the privilege this system affords them if that is the only real route to a world where they personally can pursue art instead of other forms of labour. If our liberal system affords us a UBI and socialized housing in exchange for complacency in its global extraction, would you still want it to end?

Its effects will be limited companies that are invested in this bullshit, which are running this long term pump and dumb con.

The effects of the housing bubble will be limited to the lenders and borrowers of subprime mortgage debt.

About a third of the US's economy right now is this AI pump-and-dump scam. When, not if, that goes away, there will be a huge ripple effect.

I mean the subprime mortgage crisis was also just in the airy heights of finance ... until it brought the world economy down.

A fair few of the companies would also never be allowed to go under. Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Amazon, etc are basically insulated from any ill-effects, because they would considered too big to fail, and be bailed out if anything major happens.

Better hope you have zero money sent through or stored in a bank or pension fund and you don't have a mortgage yourself or your landlord doesn't have a mortgage or your employer doesn't have a mortgage or business loan and doesn't use a bank.

The correct response is what Iceland did: government bails out the bank's customers, takes ownership, and actually jails the c-level ~~wankers~~ bankers.

Because like it or not, you're still part of the financial system unless you're currently sat in a self-sufficient earth-ship borrowing some else's WiFi connection.

Yeah, it's not as if this economy does anything more than shovel money into the black holes of billionaire bank accounts.

While the technology likely won't go away, some of the companies behind the AI push take huge losses and may collapse. OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft and the bunch are spending insane amounts of money on datacenter buildout that may never return a profit.

Most AI subscriptions for instance are priced under cost to lock users in. However, unlike traditional services, it's trivial for a user to migrate to a competitor or (eventually) run a local model. Currently that market doesn't return a profit and it's questionable if it ever will

Increasingly, this looks like a death spiral of tech giants where nobody can admit to the sunk cost fallacy. Unfortunately these companies are in everybody's investment or retirement funds, so when they crash the economy will crash with it. I think that would be the "AI failing". Not the technical aspect, but rather the economical aspect.

They'll find a way to make us all pay, but I agree with the sentiment