I think the problem is that you think that, while a majority of people think little, if at all. Dumb people and kids for example.

There are enough people who just consume media without reflecting for ads to work, or ads would simply disappear. Companies know how to use statistics.

Khajit has wares if you have coin.

We don’t choose egoistic people as ruler, egoistic people (and psychopaths) try to become rulers, regardless of the price or morality.

Long-term gains from things like user satisfaction are hard to measure and predict.

That’s why you see these ‘Were you happy with our service?’ questions everywhere. Still, the people who answer these polls are in the minority and a specific subset of respondents, which is bad for statistics.

It’s security against the robot uprising

I always loved the saying, “The ‘S’ in IoT stands for security.”

Well, it also doesn’t help that the new owner throws nazi salutes on television.

I mean, that’s the plan, right?

Ah, a good little peon, owns nothing but debt. Those won’t riot against their master, even if the masters are pedos and try to take even more from those who have nothing.

Everything is as planned.

I don’t drink. I only very seldom do drugs. I still feel like shit, thank you very much.

Human developers should not develop with the production DB, why the hell would you give an AI the rights to touch the prod DB?

Amateur! Aim at his crotch.

Or that the iPhone(s) would only make sense in a mirror selfie.

Many of these “business geniuses” do the following:

• buy struggling business cheap
• reduce expenses (biggest expense is always salaries, so fire a lot of people)
• on paper, the business is making money (while the rest of the staff frantically try to survive without enough manpower and with a lot of loss on knowledge and experience)
• sell doomed business before it collapses (remember: on paper, it looks healthy)

An IQ of 100 is ment to be directly in the middle, so roughly 50% of the population is below that. An IQ of 100 isn’t that bright, so think about the incredible masses of dumb people.

So, yeah. It’s not impossible that you were the one-eyed among the blind.

Schrödinger wanted to demonstrate exactly this with his thought experiment: that a complex organism (like a cat) in a superposition is absurd.

Same in Germany: The center right CDU tries to get voters from the far right AFD. Never worked, but they keep on trying.

The thing is, the AI bubble is mainly a big fucking bet.

The bet is, that the new data centers will bring us AGI or even ASI.

As long as they haven’t tested that theory it’s unlikely that the bubble will burst - they just put too much money in there to fold now. It’s “all in” for AI companies.

They hope that AI will take over most white collar work, and with robotics later most work overall.

The German government is deathly afraid of anything that could be constructed as anti-semitic. Probably also bought, but that’s just a guess. Pathetic, and I say that as a German.

Talks too much is not necessary a problem.

/Signed an introvert who likes it when others carry the conversation