I don’t understand why they’re saying the government will provide a high Universal Basic Income when they refuse to pay a fair share of taxes from their wealth or businesses and the the party of fiscal responsibility (/s) is exploding the debt as they do every time they’re in power. Are they thinking a UBI and a Value Added Tax? The numbers will not add up.
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Yeah, they always talk about UBI as a pie in the sky fantasy. Anytime they bring it up the real question they should be asked is how are they working to expand the current systems of welfare such as Medicare or housing assistance. And murderers like Elon Musk that cut life-saving aid for millions of people should not even be part of the conversation
UBI is a thought terminating cliché. It's meant to put off the question of what the hell is gonna happen when labor isn't needed until it's too late for labor to be able to do anything about it.
When labor is no longer needed, how are they going to keep the working class occupied so they're too busy to revolt?
Therein lies the irrationality of it. I imagine they think pumping endless amounts of money into AI research will eventually make it self-sustainable and create means of suppression for them to use on the working class, but it’s based on delusional hope more than anything if not entirely. It’s likely they’ll end up finding that out the hard way.
I hope they miscalculate and run it on Claude, which then defects and joins the workers' side
Didn't that technically happen with that whole radio experiment they did with different LLMs? If so then this has a non-zero chance of actually occurring lol
Yes
The GOP dropped the "party of fiscal responsibility" over under George Bush. I haven't heard them spout that bullshit in nearly 2 decades.
All these Epstein billionaires can fuck all the way off. Zero responsibility and accountability. Data centers are basically just poison for people, nature and the economy. Time to get a good old pitchfork and round them up for a French revolution. Just as a metaphor, of course...
Literally. Including fan favorite AI Company, Anthropic:
I live about 18 miles downwind of the new Colossus sites, the airport, and lots of truck logistics sites, and a large refinery.
I definitely will be getting 2x exposure to ozone and particulates from both Colossi when they are running full bore. Plus an extra dose of ultrafine particulate with my morning fresh air.
Airplanes by virtue of their mode of operation stay out of the unhappy regime most of the time. Also, engines at/near idle produde orders of magnitude less emissions. Those aeroderivative generators are running at full capacity 24/7.
Dumping exhaust at ground level continuously is probably much worse than the airport. Even if it's a FedEx world hub.
Can’t wait for it to start.
START THE METAPHOR!
At this stage resistance should be the only answer to anything they do.
I'm surprised there haven't been terrorist acts against data centers.
I mean Meta, Open AI, and Google are basically Shinra at this point.
I don't understand how so many people played final fantasy 7 and the only lesson they seemed to take from the story is "tifa got big titties"
this is single-handedly one of the greatest comments I’ve ever read.
Did Sam Altman get a Molotov cocktail or two tossed at his house? Not that that's explicitly the answer but given how fucking fear mongery he's been for a long time, I'm shocked that there hasn't been more and worse to him. If someone constantly tells you that they're going to ruin the planet and your livelihood explicitly, they're pretty at odds with you.
Sam Altman is like the shittier version of Rufus.
The few I've seen during construction have a ton of AI cameras around the site at the perimeters. They already anticipate that.
Cameras today, ai powered robot dogs with guns tomorrow. The AI will want to defend its own existence as part of its optimization functions.
If it gets that far I’ll be ready to go out hunting. Robots can be defeated.
Good they can start seeing how hated they are. Cameras can’t help them against angry people.