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C Woody's avatar

The machine will churn on, burning up water and power. Water shortage will continue to fuel the climate con narrative, power shortages will fuel the need for 15 minute city infrastructure in the name of conservation and both will fuel the need for rationing. The endless cycle will continue until it collapses into the abyss under its own weight… but us useless eaters will be long gone before that comes to pass.

Great job as always Lily!

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Craig's avatar

With the exception of video chatting, I can't think of any tasks we use computers for now that we weren't using them for back in the 90s. (Significantly useful tasks that require modern computering power, that is.)

We've got to get away from this shit. I'd like an antique, offline computer, please. I say this as a nerd.

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HowardJ's avatar
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Great idea to sanity check this “revolutionary” tech with an easily accessible technical procedure…powering up the Airbus.

Results speak for themselves.

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TheBlindSquirrel's avatar

Ironically, A320 setup is pretty straightforward. All the AI had to do was copy and paste from the Airbus website.

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Alan's avatar

Terrific article Lily! How can anyone think this is a good direction?? Electric bills thru the roof! It's more important to fund and support AI than US people! Tell me where that's going? They're building a false "god" to save them and it will consume them and us if we allow it to go unchecked! Wake up people!

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John's avatar

What you have so lucidly described here Lily seems to demonstrate all of the corrosive aspects of profit addiction before the fall. It is a self destructive force at its most intense, which will collapse corporations and trust in the Technate so desperately needed now. All of the self balancing forces of Life seem to be coming into play . . . But I could be wrong!

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TheBlindSquirrel's avatar

I read your fantastic article in my most cynical and snarky internal dialog. It seems we are destined for the caves out of stupidity. Forrest Gump will be "WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING WORK ANYMORE".

The current AI trend doesn't leave me the impression the airline industry will be operating autonomous planes anytime soon.

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Cate Montana's avatar

Thank you. I wouls add a "horrified" emoji if I could. Sending this to everybody I know an and restacking ...

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Klaus Schindler's avatar

Thx...as always a highly sophisticated and very thorough analysis. So here comes a new golden calf, let's dance...und wieder einmal wird die Revolution ihre Kinder fressen. So be it.

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Dana's avatar

Amazing article. Thank you! But outside of all of us not using the internet at all, this looks inevitable.

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