I don’t think that’s quite the same thing unless you try to manipulate somebody else into doing what you want them to do.

Like if somebody didn’t want to go with you would you be upset or would you just say, ok i’ll catch up with you later?

Are they just trying to stay relevant?

Everybody is so busy talking about the shit they’ve caused to spin out of control, and nobody is really talking about them individually? So now they just sit in their little isolated military housing they stole from soldiers trying to come up with innovative ways to own the libs?

I think it’s that attitude with any neurodivergence or mental health related issue. You know, all the things that doctors didn’t know about diagnosing “just didn’t exist” in the past.

Like we saw the consequences of people struggling through life, not getting a diagnosis, and not understanding why life was so challenging. For example, my dad was dyslexic and my mom very likely had ADHD, but neither was ever diagnosed.

They just struggled constantly through school, had terrible self esteem, and when somebody told them to just give up and choose a different career path they just said ok, guess I’m just not cut out for this.

Then I got both, and my parents were ok with acknowledging the dyslexia bc it was pretty easy to diagnose.

The ADHD was a whole other story, and I was told by my own parents (who were tough on me because they just didn’t want me ending up like them) and most of my teachers, that I was just careless and lazy over and over. I started hating school when I was like 8, and barely even finished high school. When I got to college by the skin of my teeth, I found stuff that actually interested me, but I still struggled so much through college and grad school. For a very long time, I believed the reason everything was so so much harder for me than my peers was bc I was just dumb/not cut out for it.

I had to wait until I was in my 30s and had my own real job and insurance to even attempt to seek help and get an ADHD diagnosis, and even then it took a very long time, but I’m so glad I finally did it.

Maybe if we can keep society from further devolving, in a few generations we can also get people to understand that acknowledging neurodivergence and mental health in kids means isn’t weakness and doesn’t mean you have to accept some kind of dangerous magical sorcery. It just means understanding that people often thrive when you allow them to just be themselves, and treat them like individuals with their own strengths, weaknesses, and unique skills.

100%

It’s like sitting in the middle of a crowded ER bleeding out and begging for help while 2 doctors argue with each other about the proper protocol they should proceed with before they even begin to stop the bleeding.

A patient could escape from the psych ward, walk by and just point out how fucked up the situation is, and you would probably be grateful somebody is at least willing to acknowledge reality and trust him more than either doctor.

And it’s what makes them so fucking awesome.

No judgment. No bullshit. Just our best friend, here for a good time, but unfortunately not a long time. We could learn a lot from them.

My fellow Americans, your government has let you down. They’ve let us all down. So please allow me to address something they somehow repeatedly fail to address.

I understand your hesitation to trust the American healthcare system. God knows it would be an absolute lie to say your health is always being prioritized before profits. However, this is a fault of the system itself, not the science behind the medicine. The fact that we have a broken system, and the fact that your understandable mistrust has been misdirected towards science is the fault of our politicians and their greed.

Everyone deserves to be healthy and everyone deserves access to the medical care that they need. I can’t fix a broken system, but I can swear to you on a stack of bibles, vaccines will not give you, your children, or your dog autism. Please vaccinate and help stop the spread of preventable diseases. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. ❤️

Listen Doc, yesterday I tried to get my dog to drink some whiskey and get on the roof with an aluminum baseball bat during a lightening storm, so we could go Back to the Future, but he just kept running away. Clearly, whatever was in that vaccine you gave him has made him autistic.

I just want to know what they put in the water in America to make everyone fight eachother

It’s a healthy dose of 1:1 lead (Pb) and misinformation. We call it fight water™️

It’s gone from can’t everyone just pay your fair share of taxes?

To can’t we at least tax the rich?

How about just the 1%?

Ok…, how about just the 0.001%?

And then somehow conservatives leaders will convince a voter base to take to the streets with pitchforks and torches, claiming it’s tyranny, then once they’re elected, the leaders will still tax the fucking voter base.

There times when I see obvious disinformation attacking America, and I will immediately stand up for my country and call out the bullshit.

Then I see something like this, and it leaves me feeling like I just stood up for a family member I felt was being unfairly picked on, who in response immediately decided to shit his pants and light a cigarette while filling up his car with gas.

These people are mentally ill

Yes and I don’t say this as a knock on mental illness. I say it because many conservatives are raised to believe that mental illness is either a supernatural force of the devil or a moral failing. I sincerely believe that if many conservatives would just give therapy a trial run, and try to unpack half the shit that they instead insist on holding on to then unleashing upon society, the world would be a much more pleasant and peaceful place.

However, most will never do that because not going to therapy A. proves they’re totally not crazy otherwise they’d be in therapy, right? and B. Trying to control everyone else, provides them with their own sense of control.

I wasn’t actually trying to use AI, but I guess the browser just defaults to that now. I don’t even like to use chrome at all anymore, but have yet to find an alternative way that (usually) works as well to search for more obscure information (I guess I should specify when it doesn’t default to AI).

Just found it kind of funny in a frustratingly dark kind of way, but had to laugh a little. Definitely wasn’t expecting Google to try and kick the can/shuffle me to yet another doctor. Also, the answer itself kind of gave unexpected Mulaney vibes

I am very small and have no money a large language model and do not “exist” in a physical sense. So you can imagine the kind of stress I’m under.

I always did love laser tag

I don’t see how it possibly couldn’t. Like everything else in the U.S. right now, it’s being propped up on lies and illusions that are held together with super glue. Idk if you saw the news about Flock, but even their license plate scanning “AI,” turned out to just be relying on a sweatshop in the Philippines.

So even the fucking license plate scanning/matching never worked, yet, somebody in government still decided to help flock install surveillance cameras all over the country, and give an unknown startup a huge government contract for tech that didn’t even exist. Then multiple cities just assumed, well if they have a contract with the federal government, they must be legit, we better give them a contract too.

What are the chances somebody like Peter Thiel, who has been pushing for the government to embrace AI and issue these huge public-private contracts since 2016, actually believed his own lie? I really don’t think any of this is actually coming as a surprise to him.

I’m not sure about the others (like Zuckerberg or Bezos), but I get the feeling Musk might have actually believed he was working towards achieving AGI, but, only because Thiel made him believe that in order to get him (and sooo many others who followed) to build these giant data centers that will rely on nuclear power (and coincidentally Thiel’s uranium mine that he recently purchased).

I’m not sure what actually happens to all of these data centers once people realize it was all a scam, but I’m not sure it’s safe to assume they’re all going to end up just sitting empty.

Not that they will be used for “AI,” but I worry that once the bubble actually bursts, shits going to somehow get even weirder in a very bad Blade Runner meets Grapes of Wrath way, and people like Thiel will be left holding all the resources and controlling all the surveillance we already installed all over the country because rich people were dumb enough to let some billionaire hype technology that didn’t actually exist, and now the economy is FUBAR because they thought they were being so smart and getting in early on the next .com boom

In exchange, as critics would point out, the company would get the mother of all tax breaks. No property taxes and no taxes on equipment purchased to build the data centers, like servers and networking gear.

“This is a generational opportunity,” Mr. Napier said as he was wrapping up. “It is here today.” Which was to say, it would be gone tomorrow. BorderPlex would find a more accommodating place for its largess. In case anyone missed the point, he explained it: “A vote to delay is a vote ‘no.’”

“You know, forget I even said anything. Sorry to bother you folks. You probably wouldn’t be interested anyway. It’s more of a Shelbyville idea…” 😏

Reddit post with a gift link to article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1phhbug/a_mysterious_company_came_to_town_with_a_165/

Reddit post with a gift link to article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1phhbug/a_mysterious_company_came_to_town_with_a_165/

But if the broligarchs don’t actually expect to ever get any of this “AI” shit actually working, then what is the end game?

Obviously the majority of people are only in it to make quick money, but what about the psychos at the very top who are directing policy and building these giant nuclear powered “AI” data centers?

If Thiel/Musk/Zuckerberg don’t actually have the expectation that “AI” will eventually work itself out, then it won’t matter how money the rich (but not broligarch rich) Wall Street bros and bankers dumped into the “AI” boom.

It won’t be like the .com boom and the Internet, because it doesn’t actually exist. If the economy completely collapses, and dollar becomes worthless currency, the “money” the average rich asshole hoards away after investing in the 2025 “AI” boom, will have about as much value as monopoly money.

Meanwhile the fucking Bond villain billionaires like Thiel (who have been dreaming of this exact scenario for over 20 years) hold all resources (including a recently purchased uranium mine).

So, “hypothetically,” if that was Thiel’s endgame, and the “AI” jig is up, then they no longer have to pretend they’re trying to develop artificial intelligence or AGI. But they do already hold control of most resources, have mass surveillance capabilities, and each broligarch owns one or more of these giant supercomputers/data centers that have been built in cities all over the U.S. world and soon in outer space.

In this totally fictional scenario, once the dollar collapses (likely followed by all of society collapsing along with it), what do the broligarchs actually use their giant nuclear powered “AI” data centers for?

AI or no AI, they’re currently being built, so what is their actual purpose?

“laughable,” arguing that you can’t declare the majority of Americans impoverished because the suburbs they choose to live in are expensive, which is what Green did when he used the middle class suburb of Caldwell, New Jersey, as his median.

“My plastic surgeon said smiling is a waste of Botox, but I can’t help but let out a boisterous ha cha fucking cha at the absurdity. If poor people don’t want to spend so much money on cost of living they should just go live in the places nobody lives because there are no jobs or resources.”

“Poor people are just so bad at managing money. That’s why they have to blindly trust everything we say. We know how to spend money wisely, and we know what’s best for the economy and them.”

“Get out of the way Plebs! We’re betting it all on AI!”

“Oh my! Well, that was unfortunate but also completely unforeseeable. I guess the only thing left to do is brush ourselves off, pat ourselves on the back for being such altruistic utilitarians, ignore the screams from the plebs and go again.”

“So where’s our bailout? Time is money.”

I mean, there is actual “AI” tech that exists, and isn’t just people working in sweatshops, like this: https://deeplabcut.github.io/DeepLabCut/README.html

It’s just kind of difficult to get consistency between trials, and reliability seems to boil down to completely eliminating variability. So kind of useless outside of a lab setting (as is).

I tend to feel like it’s more trouble than it’s worth and too unreliable (as is) to usually bother with it, but I know people who are just fellow lab rats (not broligarchs) and are super devoted to getting AI to work for their projects. Like most sectors in this country, even science is being forced to embrace AI. Regardless of if it actually makes sense for your line of work or not, the expectation is get it working or face the chopping block, and there are definitely people who are trying their hardest to really get this shit off the ground (because the alternative is be prepared to be out of a job for being obsolete).

This is also why it’s kind of surprising to learn that even “AI” that’s simply comparing license plates from one camera to the next, is actually just due to human slave labor.

So, do any of the broligarchs receiving these huge contracts actually believe that eventually they’ll get AI to work once enough data and money is dumped into it and the little people at the bottom figure out all the kinks for them?

Or is it just that everybody at the top acknowledges this is a dead end, but once you’re in the secret club at the top of the food chain, and you’re making ridiculous amounts of money, your incentive is just to keep your mouth shut, keep making money, and fuck the consequences because once society collapses you’ll get to be kings of your own little monarchs anyway?

If it is the second, and nobody at the top really believes AI is going anywhere, then what are all the giant, energy sucking data centers that are being built across the country actually for?