• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    4 days ago

    Give it time. My software career is also affected. At the rate they’re spending money at an order of magnitude higher than they’re making. They’ve also all borrowed money from each other. It’s going to collapse in a big heap. Hopefully before it sucks in mum and dad investors.

    • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      It’s going to collapse in a big heap

      Just like the housing market which the government bailed out at our expense. And housing prices continue to outpace salaries. There’s a strong possibility that this is a permanently-forced inefficiency.

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        3 days ago

        I’m not so sure. The AI hate in the general population is real. The fact that all these companies immediately claimed to replace all human labor within months, made them the enemy of the people, regardless how false these predictions were.

        Banks are not liked either, but they are not hated in the same way. At least in the general public a mortgage seems to be the responsibility of both parties. “So the banks speculated, we still need houses and mortgages.”

        I’m not so sure you can explain away the AI bubble that easily. Occupy Wallstreet will be a small affair in comparison.

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          2 days ago

          I’m fairly pessimistic about the future. Occupy Wallstreet was a total failure. A bigger version can still be a total failure. We’ve been in a cyberpunk dystopia since 9/11, totally and transparently owned by megacorporations. I can easily see an AI-powered police state dramatically wasting energy to dominate the population.

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            2 days ago

            I’ll frame your comment and hang it om my wall.

            We need to fight against a cyberpunk future no matter what.