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I can't help but think that this is due to Musk putting pressure on the current administration to help him win his lawsuit and punish Altman.
by SkipperCat 5mo ago
I can't help but think that this is due to Musk putting pressure on the current administration to help him win his lawsuit and punish Altman.
- avaer 5mo agoPersonal vendettas between the world's most powerful psychopaths playing out in the stock market while everyone else suffers does seem like the current meta. So it makes sense.
- MrBuddyCasino 5mo agoHow does everyone else suffer? We’re getting subsidized compute.
- mrhottakes 5mo agoLook around at the country right now
- boringg 5mo agoNothing to do with Altman v Musk. That would be an AI boom that would be going full steam ahead without either of them.
- Arainach 5mo agoAlmost no one in the country is feeling a boom. Everyone is feeling the consequences of their greed and recklessness.
- boringg 5mo agohuh? What are you are referring to is the lasting impacts of multiple years of inflation after living without it for 10 years. Those issues predate Musk v. Altman and would be happening without them. AI build out / boom would be full bore without them.
- Arainach 5mo agoThere is no boom. There are massive layoffs, massive inflation, and massive cuts to government services - all caused by the actions of Musk, Altman, and those like them.
- boringg 5mo agoSaying there is no AI boom? You are either lying to yourself or not paying attention to whats whappening. Are there problems? Absolutely - there have been problems at every single second of humanity. We will always be plagued with problems at some times worse than others. That does not mean that there isn't a boom at the same time.
- platevoltage 5mo agoThere is a boom, but It's a boom for a few thousand people in the country. Everyone else is seeing their energy bills go up, and I can't get a Raspberry Pi for under $100.
- scottyah 5mo agoAI is the only thing keeping the S&P afloat. You don't want to see what it would look like when all pensions numbers start going down. So far it's fake numbers from inflation and the value is decreasing dramatically, but at least they still go up.
- Arainach 5mo agoI very much do want to see. A necessary step to fix our problems is for people to stop lying to themselves and thinking things are "going fine". A plurality of American voters are stubborn and stupid and won't change their ways until they feel direct pain, so bring the pain.
- platevoltage 5mo agoThere's no way you think that will be sustainable even in the short term.
- mrhottakes 5mo agoMusk has a lot to do with the state of the country right now. Do you read the news?
- boringg 5mo agoYou are really giving him a lot of credit here. Thats mostly the news cycle doing what it does - focusing on the big stories and loudest speakers.
- manphone 5mo agoHe ran a government institution that recklessly cut public spending and hurt us all. What are you talking about?
- mrhottakes 5mo agoHe was the de facto head of an effort to drastically cut the federal government, and he's donated hundreds of millions of dollars to get Trump and Trump-adjacent people elected. I ask again: do you read the news?
- ambicapter 5mo agoThe AI boom started a war with Iran and dismantled American public institutions?
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- MrBuddyCasino 5mo agoThese are the kind of hot takes Bluesky needs to hear. And lets be honest you already have an account there.
- solid_fuel 5mo agoYeah good job man, stick your head back in the sand. That'll help.
- latexr 5mo agoHere’s just the most recent example. https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/ https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-...
- jayd16 5mo agoWould be nice if we could just afford things instead.
- threethirtytwo 5mo agoGod why do people frame things in such extremes? Neither person is a psychopath. If anyone is closer to a psychopath it’s Altman, but he doesn’t completely fit the monicker.
- skeeter2020 5mo agoWhen you're arguing the degree to which such powerful people fit the definition of psychopath, you're at extremes. You've just been in the warming pot too long to see it.
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- hgoel 5mo agoSo, now we need a clinical diagnosis to call evil people psychopaths or we're unhinged? Do you apply the same high standards to any of the garbage these guys spew or to the impacts of their projects?
- shimman 5mo agoThe people that have made decisions leading to the direct deaths of millions of people AREN'T evil! There's no clinical definition of evil in the DSM, so they can't be evil you see.
- threethirtytwo 5mo agoYour stupid. They can be evil because it fits the definition. They can’t be psychopaths because it doesn’t fit the definition. Understand?
- mrhottakes 5mo agoHave you asked all the legit clinical psychologists? Or are you just making things up because you're emotional?
- shimman 5mo agoI'm all for it, let them attack each other and hopefully the backlash will elect a labor President to turn the final screws on knee capping big tech for the next 50 years.
- steve_adams_86 5mo agoHow do you knee cap big tech when other countries continue to push forward with it?
- jayd16 5mo agoYou don't need to cap the technological process. You can simply curb the power of corrupt individuals. If anything it would accelerate progress.
- mindslight 5mo agoWhy did we knee cap CIA/NSA/DOD from nominally operating on Americans when the Soviet Union continued to push forward with it? For what it's worth, our once-and-(hopefully)-future allies the European Union are already on board with reigning in the surveillance industry (leading by example, even). So your question is more like how can we constrain our domestic technological authoritarians when China continues to embrace theirs. And the answer is that it's not a "how". The "how" is straightforwardly enforcing longstanding concepts like personal information, antitrust bundling, unauthorized access (backdoors in sold products), etc. So your question comes down to more of a why, and the why is because it is in line with our values based around individual liberty.
- _verandaguy 5mo agoIMHO: when an emerging technology threatens the livelihoods of millions, it's responsible and ethical to step away from seeing this stuff through a purely competitive lens. Out of the three big geographic players, the US and China are jockeying for "most performant" models (whatever that means) with two separate approaches; the EU is trying to develop models that work best within their privacy, human rights and labour rights frameworks and laws. All of these have have merits, though arguably the US's (de-facto) strategy of market dominance at any cost with as few restraints as possible will be the worst for society at large. The prudent thing to do would be to first determine if this is something that will actually live up to the hype (which IMO is still very much in the air), and then if it does, turns this into an international collaboration rather than a competitive enterprise. It's not lost on me that this is a terminally naive point of view.
- ourmandave 5mo agoIf only there were some way to bet on the outcome...