even the very first line of this is retarded. how can the success of generative AI lead to a zero work utopia and "universal high income" at the same time? how can either of those things happen? and who enjoys utopia and who doesn't? services must be paid for. who's going to pay for it, or be able to pay for it? why are data centers allowed to simultaneously cripple the quality of life and raise the cost of living wherever they are erected?
as always, yes, we will have to work through societal disruption. the jeet isn't wise for stating the obvious. historically technology, climate, society, etc changes really slowly, like, you could reasonably have lived your life the same way with the same people for 60+ years for most of human history. And in the last 150 years alone all that has just been shot to hell. every 5 years technology changes, society changes, the people circulate like water, skills have to constantly evolve. there's no point in human history that has been like this that wasn't a massive crisis.
so, essentially, the majority of the world population has been in crisis for 5+ generations and its not stopping any time soon. fundamentally, culture is basically collectivised memory. things need to stop changing, then culture will catch up. de-culturization is a reflection of the chaos. if you look at how people handled big changes in the past, it wasn't unusual to take 2-4 generations to stabilize things. of course, the problem now is this: we've all been thrown for some new loop of abject turmoil every 5+ years, for multiple generations in a row now.
it should never have been like
this, though. this shitty technocracy. lots of people tap out because this is unprecedented. you could say its going to drive human evolution, because it's literally filtering procreation - technology is literally forcing humanity to evolve differently.
one of the cloudflare outages was caused by a memory truncation, and i'd be willing to bet most people don't even know what the fuck that is (coders under 30 especially) even though it was considered basic knowledge not 20 years ago. there are very few people nowadays who "just know" how shit works at the fundamental level (like security engineers, for example) and there's a critical shortage of that knowledge. their job is to look at whatever IT system and say "This will break in this way and here is why you are stupid and how to not be stupid" and the number of people with this knowledge is decaying rapidly. most of the people who "just know" shit are 45+, and all the people under them don't understand shit about any of it. once the old tech heads who came up between 1980-2000 retire/die there's gonna be such a shitshow, and by that i mean either you are a tech expert and make real money or you are a vibe coding grunt who is paid as much as a desk clerk because you're hardly better than AI (Actually Indian).
all of our eggs are in these monopoly baskets, everything is getting worse, technology isn't fun anymore, and people are still being pathetic sheep about it. the communist chink party puts surveillance in every electronic gewgaw we keep importing and jeets strangle every corporation we have. the CEO of Micron is a FUCKING JEET, including the rest of the executive suite - ALL OF THEM ARE FUCKING JEETS. it's absolutely astonishing to me that Cloudflare isn't Jeetflare (yet). they aren't
our people, they aren't
us, they are foreigners in total control of American businesses and industries with false credentials and not a single fucking person is doing anything about it. meanwhile, they continue to
screw us over and over and over and over.
you, me, our generation: we are in the middle of total chaos. all we can do is our best and pass the torch, and hope the next generation will continue solving things... assuming we don't leave them to the next generation of iPad or, worse, LLM-powered plushies. I am very happy for people who can start families, have kids, find some light in all this, but for all I care, personally, the Jack Welches can inherit the world because all we've proven to be good at is kicking the can down the road and letting ourselves be increasingly deluded while we're raped and plundered by invader filth.
my prediction is that the the next equivalent to a covid plandemic won't be a literal virus with a clot-shot follow up. it'll be the Internet being massively compromised for an extended period, with a focus on damaging Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
