The working class saw this coming decades ago, only to be mocked and told to retrain by the same credentialized individuals who’re now crying about AI. Yesterday’s push to offshore jobs and today’s rush toward digital automation are simply different phases of the exact same economic displacement. It cannot be stopped with legislation in a globalized world where capital flows freely.

Morn, that guy just won’t stop talking.

Stargate : “We didn’t have the budget so they’re just humans.”

Less is more, even if it wasn’t spying on you no one really needs the “integrated AI” bloatware.

It reminds me of a case in my hometown where a second thief stole a stolen vehicle from the initial thief, so the latter went to the police to report it, which, of course, led to nothing but his arrest.

Accurate, perhaps they were referring to SEO and ensuring that web crawlers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or other corporations stumble upon their perspective on things during the collection process for their next training dataset.

But unless you work at one of these LLM companies, you cannot influence an already trained model directly at a macro level. You can only tailor the answers it provides within your own account settings, which does not affect the output for anyone else.

Absorbing all the light that the Kurtzman era won’t use.

When you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, this is just the latest instance of ever expanding credit being converted into assets, just like housing, and reflected in everything down to groceries.

The structural problem lies in the very fact that we have, since 1971 and the end of the Bretton Woods system, fiat currencies backed by nothing tangible or physical, allowing for limitless expansion and by extension inevitable devaluation.

That money has to go somewhere to avoid being eaten by the very inflation it created, holding onto a resource that can be infinitely replicated, like currency in our present system, is a guaranteed loss.

The goal of fiat fueled VC bubbles is never to generate immediate, honest profits from selling a product to consumers, the goal is asset inflation and capital preservation.

The system is not broken, it is in fact working exactly as intended.

Build a product -> make it free or very affordable -> create dependency -> collect user data to improve product resulting in more dependency -> create a near market monopoly if possible -> make it paid only or make the free version a lot worse so users have to pay -> cross fingers that no alternative emerges or just buy it and shut it down if you can.

Always the same pattern.

Remember that there exist alternatives to the big three US payment processors.

China’s UnionPay is pretty much global now, one can open a bank account remotely in Hong Kong or Singapore and go through UnionPay.

Russia’s Mir is the answer to the current geopolitical situation and the country being cut off from SWIFT, they are backed by UnionPay and are accepted all over Asia, Africa and increasingly in Latin America, many local banks in these parts will give you a card with Mir if you request it.

India’s UPI is also gaining traction in the subcontinent, in Europe Wero is rolling out as an answer to US dependency.

You don’t have to be a prisoner to the three American processors, even in the US and Canada, UnionPay is gaining traction as a result of the demand from the Chinese diaspora and business owners.

Competition is good for business.

Edit : typo car -> card

Unfortunately, most people want a frictionless experience, they want to click the “Sign in with Google” button and never think about it again, the moment you have to register manually, even with an email and password, fetch a client from GitHub/GitLab, or worse create a wallet and understand cryptographic keys, 90+% of the population gives up.

It doesn’t mean people are stupid, humans just evolved to pick the path of least resistance when it came to foraging for food, same principle applies to modern life.

Tom : “What do you think? Boy or a girl?”

Seven : “It’s a holographic projection.”