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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io · 3 months ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116126552546349967

But at least we only spent a trillion dollars on it, right?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380 😂😂😂

So far AI has done more damage than adding any true value to productivty unless you consider the following as plus points:

* Getting staff fired
* Stealing journalist, book authors, or artists’ work
* Environment impact
* Hallucinations that caused harm and loss of life
* Creating undressing images of minors and woman
* The list list endless and you have to be psychopaths to like this

Mistake not ...

@zeri@chaos.social · 3 months ago

@jenniferplusplus "Your organization rarely has good ideas, ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io · 3 months ago

Or as I said previously
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115537188922928571

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io · 3 months ago

Incidentally, if you divert a trillion dollars to something and get "basically zero" economic activity around it, that's not an investment. It's sabotage. It's become the chief manifestation of the capital strike we've all been enduring since, roughly, the first half of 2022.

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io · 3 months ago

What's a capital strike? That tends to be the question I get in response to this rant.

You know what a labor strike is, right? It's wielding labor as power, by witholding it, as a bargaining tactic.

A capital strike is the same thing, except with capital.

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io · 3 months ago

But, you have to understand what capital actual is. It's not money. Money is a loose proxy for capital, but that's all. Really, capital is control over economic resources. Raw resources, sure. Big industrial machinery, sure. Networks of transportation and communication, yes. And labor.

Money is kind of the exchange medium for all of that. But capital isn't the money, and it's not the resources. It's the power to distort how those resources are used and applied to suit your own interests, at the expense of the other people involved.

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