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These days companies have leaderboards to see who used the most so they actually think of ways to use the most.

Meanwhile musk is racing to do his huge IPO to suck up all investor cash before Altman can get to it. They’re all trying to cash in before the bubble pops, so the damage will be done and it’ll be painful.

Amazon already had this automated without humanoid robots. They don’t need a drop-in solution, but they’re most likely not selling this. https://youtu.be/0MCMB53jlIk

The humanoid robots will first assistant employees in the facility’s Joey Pouch sorting system sequencing, a computerized induction, sorting and packing system. Moving forward, Figure and Catalyst will identify the best use cases for humanoid automation across the system. ~ from a different article

So basically this: https://youtu.be/rTej9ym9UQc

THX 1138 wasn’t that far off the mark.

The real world apparently. But if your company is far enough in la-la land and the disconnect between profit and reality is big enough, weird things happen.

If a big part of the market is floating in la-la land then that’s a good impression of Wile E. Coyote before he looks down.

Saying you’re doing layoffs lowers stock price. Saying you’re replacing workers and stocks might even go up. It’s a pretty big incentive if your pay package depends on the stock price.

And preparing everyone for invasive mass surveillance. “If you have nothing to hide” is going to be really popular.

Technically spicy autocorrect is still AI. But technically a simple checkers program on a $5 Chinese gaming console is also AI, as long as it implements just some small aspect of intelligence. That technicality is exploited like crazy by the LLM hypers.

The trick is to be rich. Wealth and power does things to a brain and makes the empathy circuits wither and die, so perfect for getting even more rich.

Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.

In economics, the Jevons paradox, or Jevons effect, is said to occur when technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource’s use lead to a rise, rather than a fall, in total consumption of that resource.

Unfortunately using less of a good thing isn’t how we do things.

Children, terrorism, criminals or drugs. If one argument stops working they’ll move to the next one.

Yeah, you’re living in state capitalism in the USA these days.

Step 2: after the bubble pops buy everything for pennies on the dollar. repurpose AI and datacenters for extremely invasive surveillance network and sell data and services to totalitarian governments

No still wouldn’t do it

And then suggests the solution it complained about in the first place.

Tariffa and Hormuz makes things expensive. People buy less so companies sell less. Layoffs everywhere.

Play store just checks what location you put in for Google account registration and shows the app or not. It’s the same for showing region locked movies.

Some folks just really like to believe there is an order to things, with people above them to aspire to, and people to kick down on.