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What’s this tell you about the market’s confidence in data centers?
This might turn out to be one of the worst allocations of capital in history.
Public opinion is already against them. People feel AI is going to take their jobs.
If they really start to gatekeep who gets to use the best models, that is a declaration of war.
This prospect fills me with the most sincere, bodily cypherpunk will-to-power that I've ever felt (at least since I was a teenager). If they really go down this route, I would go all-in on building the most psychotic swarms of open-source models and fine-tunes possible, all geared toward a Chaotic Good jamming of the entire institutional public sphere. If we didn't do that, all of political life and the marketplace of ideas would be over before we know it.
It's one thing if the top models become too expensive for me or others to use (I'm already pricing that in, and if you can't build something profitable enough to climb that ladder as it gets pulled up, then that's fair enough).
But if the ladder gets pulled up politically, now, so only select institutional players get access to the most intelligent models, then any mature American man should be as energized as gun collectors are around the 2nd Amendment, or liberal women are around Planned Parenthood.
Your phone is doing magic on you. All screens are black (empty glass) because it represents the empty space of mind. A magical device that shows you everything you didn’t even know you wanted to see (brain rot) + (created by geniuses to keep you addicted). It strips away your curiosity and creative ability, it blocks the spontaneity of mind from occurring and hyper conditions you (feedback loops are one thumb swipe away) to desire slop. You quite literally destroy your spirit every time you scroll. You block life’s spontaneous beauty from arising in your mind (algorithm overlords do it for you) and waste your life chasing what the feeds have shown you, instead of allowing your soul to birth it from within you.
So his campaign pitch is basically: Please keep Republicans in power so nobody can investigate what we’ve been doing. Congressional oversight is literally part of Congress’s job, not political persecution. Funny how accountability suddenly becomes “targeting” when your own side might have to answer questions.
I just saw that while I was sleeping US and Iran even resumed bombing each other
Frankly, whoever is still pretending oil prices aren’t manipulated and is making up all sort of stories to justify how the market is “forward looking”, is either ignorant, dishonest, or both
Note how Silicon Valley oligarchs rapidly went from preaching "libertarianism" to openly promoting a techno-fascist dystopian police state.
Because they never believed in the "tech will set you free" myth; that was just propaganda. All they care about is maximizing their wealth.
They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and often building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.
Bush and Obama spend $4T to replace the Taliban with the Taliban
Trump spend $200B to open to Strait of Hormuz that was already open.
Its almost like its a grift to steal taxpayer money to fund the military industrial complex.
Imagine telling someone in 1999…
The year is 2026.
The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.
The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.
Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.
People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.
The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.
Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.
AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.
The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.
You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.
People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.
The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.
And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.