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The Seven Trillion Dollar Scam

Why I Refuse to Call Degeneration Progress

Oct 12, 2025
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Sam Altman wants seven trillion dollars for artificial “intelligence” that may or may not some day be able to figure out how many legs a horse has. Or was it to cure cancer? I don’t remember. Anyway, staying true to this quest, OpenAI released Sora, a video generator that burns through $700,000 daily to produce clips where people’s fingers occasionally …

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