“Crypto” can encompass things that aren’t “coins” though—like land deeds. It’s just a protocol to secure & verify ownership in a decentralized way.

My point is, the actual concept of it absolutely could be an intellectual conversation. Their confidently ignorant quip about what qualifies is silly.

The irony of your comment might kill me.

You know crypto doesn’t just mean coins… right? It’s a whole concept that applies to lots of things outside of cryptocurrency.

Ok; I can see you’re locked into lazy defeatism. I won’t disturb you anymore!

We are not outgunned. They can’t drone strike their workforce and still project power, that’s always a silly point to me. Also, not all military personnel will giddily bomb their own country. An armed rebellion situation will be really messy. Insurgencies don’t need to outgun the regime they’re against, they need to outlast and make the costs too big to stomach.

You’re right more right wingers own guns. My point is it’s time more left wingers own guns. No reason to have a pathetic defeatist attitude.

I feel like we’re very much in the territory the U.S. population should start getting armed (if they are not already), and learning how to safely use, maintain, and store their firearms.

When the workforce finally does mass protest, it should have the means to defend itself from the unconstitutional violence the state is going to use against them.

Nah. Fuck AI companies causing the shortage. They should stop delaying the inevitable bubble crash and suffer real consequences.

These AI companies rushing to do IPOs so the public’s retirement account index funds can buy them up and take the loss for them, too.

These people need to suffer real consequences.

I am a software engineer, and trying it is exactly how I know it is not a “force multiplier.”

Outside of my personal experience—there’s also zero actual evidence it provides anywhere near the benefits it’s marketed as.

Did you miss the part about no credible evidence? Feeling like something is a certain way doesn’t make it true.

There isn’t any credible evidence out there that actually shows LLMs are a “force multiplier.” That is almost certainly just a made up marketing term for unprofitable chatbot companies.

“Shrinkflation” is a cute branding for theft and class warfare.

They’re going all in on lowering your quality of life to contribute to AI data centers, and pretending it’s some natural market force.

Until the working class bands together and brings these fucks down

You’re surprised by Claude? Why? It’s just theft of people’s work to enrich shithead tech bros.

Robots are expensive, require frequent maintenance by specialists, and there aren’t even any robots close to humans in durability and length of years active. They also can’t problem solve anything like humans can.

Robots and drones require maintenance and operators. The so-called advantage will always be vulnerable to their ability to repair and produce them. Which diminishes greatly as they kill off the very population that does just that.

Their power is a mirage.

“Treat an AI like an idiot intern without any references you just hired.”

Instead of this, treat AI like some dude off the street who you didn’t hire and leave it out of your life. It’s shitty, it’s wasteful, and it’s subsidized by everyone to get a few tech bros rich.

Like seriously, it’s just theft of people’s work it “trained on”, powered by energy companies that charge us more to power it, at the cost of poisoning our water supplies, to ultimately try and steal our salaries one day.

It’s absolutely parasitic software at every level.

Sure, but we also don’t need more chatbot data centers to flood everything with more slop

Or they won’t be able to do any of that with their assets seized and they’ll serve their time. No reason to make up some nonsense defeatist scenario.

Enough fines, open a criminal investigation and throw his ass in prison.

It’s amazing they can just make these claims without literally any evidence and no major “media” organization asks for it. They are just propaganda for these companies.