They also want us all to work in low Earth orbit. Check out Blue Horizons’ website.

Dude I’m afraid this is just going to lead to the end of the world.

This; look at how short-term they’re already thinking.

They will see the writing on the wall long before they actually have any genuine fear for business. And they’ll take the money and run, just like they already do now.

I feel this is always true for public companies, while there are some exceptions in private ones.

From what I’ve noticed, with AI companies, it’s usually not “annual” but “annualized”, which is just an estimate. And it doesn’t seem like there are any rules to calculating that estimate, you can just grab the best 30-day period of operation, multiply it by 12 and claim millions in annualized revenue. And then they usually just sell to someone based on this estimation, since it’s almost never profitable to build something on top of existing infrastructure of the main players in this market and maintaining your own is just not feasible.

Anything beyond that they’re not even thinking about.

Every place I’ve had a white-collar office job, there’s been a 5-year plan. But the plan is typically a flippant and unrealistic goal, I suppose the purpose of which is to temporarily boost morale and to be a cult-like litmus test to see which employees can ignore reality.

Two of the more egregious examples: I worked in what was considered a medium sized company (maybe 30ish employees at the time). Management decided their 5-year goal was that we were going to grow large enough to own/build a skyscraper downtown. Another was at a relatively unknown regional retain chain that couldn’t even compete with Walmart whose 5 year goal was to become a household name around the world.

A lot of businesses operate at a 5-10 year time scale or more. Take all these AI datacenters being built. That takes a long time. You need to obtain planning permission from the local government. You need to buy the land, get all the utilities you’ll need to the site (they use a lot of water and electricity). You need to build the actual buildings. You need to put in an order for the computer hardware so it’s available when the building is done. You need to actually build the buildings.

Some of these can be done in parallel, but a lot can’t. You can’t lay out the electrical or cooling paths until the building is built. You can’t start installing racks until the electrical and cooling systems are in place. You can’t start installing servers until the racks are all ready. You can’t start connecting the servers and everything until all the electrical, cooling and networking setup is done. And, at every step there are going to be setbacks, especially when you’re building something new and innovative, and not just plopping down something you’ve built 100x before.

You are so correct. They will, in very short time now be more or less doing exactly what I suggested!

Yup. The people pushing AI are not concerned with the social or economic reprocussions of pushing AI. They just want line go up.

The “Don’t Look Up” greed + willful ignorance will crush us all.

Excuse me. I grew up raising and breeding pigs I love. They were real. That isn’t. Like their evil, their money, their ego…

…and, Hey! Look at that. That’s the Necronomicon. It looks like Death isn’t too, soon, either!

A socialist revolution is the only solution and it will come.

Not the only. The rich still can lead us to fascism. The only problem is that fascism has its own internal contradictions and history won’t stop there.

you’d think so, but what is being actually done to achieve this? As far as i have seen, people dont seem to have interest even in their own well being if it requires any attention span and they lap up any and all propaganda to the extent you are considered kind of crazy if you think corporations might not have your interests at their heart.

If the revolution is coming, it wont have any supporters because vast majority will just side with the corporations or plain not care. Not saying this to deter anyone from doing something but to point that winning back peoples minds is the first step that needs to be taken if anything is to be done at all.

I’d pay $5 to watch that. Hey, I think we have something going here.

And they don’t care. They care about profits now, not profits 5 years from now. That is a problem for future CEOs to solve.

Yep, need line to go up this quarter and the few following, no further planning needed.

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Sucks if you don’t wanna play though, same as it ever was I guess.

It’s almost like someone a 130ish years ago predicted that capitalism would be like this. I wonder who that is?

Unironically the closest answer to reality except they’ll just let us die

The Penultimate Truth is a really awesome book about pretty much this, except they stuck the poors underground in Tanks.

The time machine by hg Wells. The rich force the poor underground into manual labor until both evolve and the poor start eating the rich

I mean some people have more money than ever to buy stuff. That’s the market that most of these things are being targeted to. Just consider everyone that isn’t extremely wealthy an obsolete product being phased out of production.

Keep restricting birth control and encouraging higher birthrates as early death numbers continue to climb in the U.S. due to a lack of safety regulations and overdoses.

Restrict what can be purchased using government aid to healthy options. Not bc you care about helping poor people to be healthy, but bc you know you might end up needing them for spare parts.

‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."

The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ " Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

Make money and sell it off before it falls like a house of cards

Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it’s a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It’s a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.

Oh they absolute do long term planning, but only in a very narrow scope.