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Are there enough US lawmakers who don’t own stock in the companies that would receive these bailouts?

Do enough of them understand that the rest of the economy would be in better shape if the biggest AI companies would face a strong setback in the next 2 years? Jesus, are they even aware that more American-made AI tools exist beyond Claude and ChatGPT?

Remember, even the biggest Obama supporters looked at the Wall Street bailouts like wtf dude… If people see that folly again, we’re gonna see some crowdfunded drone strikes on data centers 🍿

There’s a quote from HBO’s Chernobyl series:

To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants, it doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: What is the cost of lies?

All these fucking guys who’ve made monsters of themselves to pretend they’re our masters - they’ll all fail. Their lies are a patchwork of tapestries meant to hide from reality. The bigger it gets, the more it wants to fall. Pull a thread, watch it unravel.

Yeah, the ‘just following orders’ brigade. Also, C is for Charlatan, it was decided, by them, through their ineptitude.

Depends on the company and its culture. Sometimes they’re the worst, others they’re quite good.

Size can be a factor (easier to hide in a larger crowd), but any size group can allow itself to be led by feckless fecking fecks if they don’t push back.

Leaving aside the whole circle jerkular economics of AI, the pattern in tech companies has been:

• devs start using AI
• middle mgmt says cool but watch the security
• CEO says increase productivity, reduce labor!
• middle mgmt says but the cost, and competence…
• HR cuts 10% here, 15% there, finance says spreadsheet happy
• delivery suffers, quality suffers
• AI cost skyrockets
• middle mgmt says ayyy no bueno
• CEO still doesn’t understand what AI is, says more more more
• some AI generated script deletes PROD
• there’s no backup, no recovery
• costs are higher than ever, product is worth less than ever, and there’s no ‘company’ because there’s no team

Can we make the CEO role redundant already? ‘One boss to rule them all’ is the fastest way into the fires of mount doom. Stupid fucks…

Where are all those agile loraxes now? Why didn’t we listen to them about sustainable operations?

Obligatory ‘Thanks, Smokey!’ 🐑🍆