@MTweetingGreatA@EscanorReloaded "..how much is legit and how much is "drummed up""
After watching this๐the Atherton side of the valley went full spin mode. Software rents have run the course and the "new money" model is Hardware rents with Information Consolidation as a dividend.
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@heliodown@EscanorReloaded Correct...that was so siloed, tone deaf Sand Hill Rd stupid... as if Industrialist who no shit make things.. cant do long form math.
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then thereโs the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didnโt hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
They will want to rewrite the history books, and the only way to verify the facts will be to go directly to the primary sources.
Those who know the language of our ancestors will be able to discern the truth.
Those who do not know it will be at the mercy of whichever ideological translator holds an academic position.
Therefore, it is essential for the future survival of Western civilization that we all begin to learn Latin.
You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much.
After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home.
If you don't understand realpsych, you would expect them to be grateful.
But that's not how people actually work.
Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them.
Once that point is passed, once a person can no longer repay his debts, then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the rest of his life.
"I am a charity recipient, not a self-sustaining human being."
"I was entitled to what I took from those people, because they are bad, or weak, or horrible, or something."
In other words, if you give someone too much, more than they deserve, more than they can possibly earn, they become ungrateful little swine, precisely in order to preserve their own psychological well being.
And they will surround themselves with others who participate with them in that collaborative lie.
Sometimes people can make entire careers out of pandering to the over-privileged and under-deserving. Careers like "publicist". Or "immigration lawyer".
And they will invent an entire mythos to preserve their self-worth. They will convince themselves that thriving off undeserved gifts makes them the elite of humanity, while those whose inheritance was taken from them are some mental stereotype of drunken "Biff", who partied his way through a second rate IT school.
There's just one small problem that they must handwave away or ignore if they can.
Biff's great-grandparents build America into the greatest nation on Earth.
Biff's grandparents won WW2.
Biff's parents invented the internet, and flew astronauts to the moon.
Biff's entire tribe was thriving. Otherwise there would have been nothing to give to immigrants, and no reason for them to come here.
Meanwhile, all of the places that the immigrants are coming from have existed a lot longer than America, and been filled with the ancestors of those immigrants, and lots of other people who are like them in every way.
They had centuries, sometimes millennia, to get their shit together and build something where they were.
They didn't.
They had to go live in someone else's country, for "opportunities".
Of course they have to pretend that they "deserve" those "opportunities" more than the very people whose ancestors created the "opportunities" in the first place.
Because otherwise they would have to admit the one thing their self-esteem could never endure....
Leaving their own nations, and their tribes, was an admission of abject failure.
What a strange invasion force they are.
They couldn't conquer us with guns, or with trade, so they came with empty hands and mouths full of tales about how they were too good for their own nations and people.
And now that we have realized that this, too, is a weapon, they screech like psychotic ex-girlfriends, alternately sobbing about how heartlessly cruel we are, and ranting dire predictions about how we will never survive without them.
But if we can't live without them, why aren't we dead yet?
Every time they demand to stay in our country, there is always some claim that they do for us something we cannot do for ourselves.
"I'm a scientist!"
Do they expect us to believe we are incapable of science?
To "be a scientist" is not a contribution. It is a credential. A scientist was enrolled in a PhD program, instead of someone else. He passed that program, and was given a fellowship, or a research grant, or a job, or a tenure track position. Instead of someone else.
When institutions squat across every upward ladder in your civilization, gatekeeping vigorously, it really IS a zero sum game.
And what have these student-visa, green-card-stapled-to-his-PhD scientists invented? Discovered? Revolutionized?
Not much.
Certainly not more than the native Americans did in the 20th century.
They all want to wear Warner Von Braun like a cape, but where are the results?
The actual next Werner Von Braun didn't get any special favors, even though he's technically African, and we all know why he didn't.
I don't see any compelling evidence that all these hordes of third worlders are a net positive AT ALL, much less a better bet than the sons of America who they were imported to replace.
Why the hell would I feel sorry for them when I know 140+ IQ Americans who are hanging drywall and driving school buses?
Norman Borlaug saved the third world from starvation, and the thanks America gets is that the Millennial Norman Borlaug gets to sell insurance because our political class wanted to play Racial Diversity Zoo for cheap votes.
And then pat themselves on the back for being generous with someone else's heritage.
So I'm not interested in the crocodile tears of an invader over losing ten percent of something that was never his to begin with, as I am equally not interested when he switches, on the instant, to boasting about how he is "competitive" in the hundred yard dash when he starts on the fifty yard line.
The replacement of native Americans with everyone else isn't some wild eyed conspiracy theory. It was done right out in the open. We all know this. We all know exactly who had their thumbs on the scales, because they didn't bother to try hiding it.
The only thing they hid was their motives.
So, as far as I'm concerned, we can send them all back. Every last one. And wish them the best of luck in their own countries.
After all, if, as they claim, all playing fields are inherently level, and only merit matters, they should revolutionize their own economies in short order.
Meanwhile, we can do for GenZ Americans what GenX and the Millennials missed out on until it was too late.
We can invest in them.
@RonPaul "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty... is staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." -President George
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