Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Too bad the contracts have all been signed years in advance and there are likely huge penalties for breaking contract and leaving. No way this actually happens unless the cost of breaking contract is lower than projected losses.

China is advancing tech and currently makes everything for the world. People support progress and innovation.

The US is only advancing financialization and extraction of resources for the wealthy. They are an imperial power that is starting to fail and lash out.

Don’t worry the Chinese economy has been groomed to take over. They already make all of our shit anyway, And we’ve trained all their scientist and engineers and our western education so they have all the knowledge that we have already.

But my safe space! /s

This is their endgame. None of the countries “did anything wrong”, they just happen to exist and defend themselves from colonialist expansion.

It’s being used as a scapegoat to fire expensive labor and replace it with cheap international labor under the guise of AI. They overhired and are changing from social media to social control, as designed by the government.

I understand the reality of it, and yes that is their thought process. I don’t believe that coding will stay the same, however there needs to be thought put into it by a human.

I think, eventually, there has to be a certain level of automation or standardization of structural components of code that can be written by AI. But the point is not to replace all coding, but rather, AI being a tool to be used in a specific, and controlled method.

I think that’s the point. Coding will eventually not be need to be done by developers. Everything will be vibe coded by AI chat bots.

Biggest bottleneck for tech companies being beholden to developers who are usually expensive.

There will be no AGI, just automated surveillance.

Adjusting for inflation for let’s say the year 2000 that’s only 150 million. Divide that by four and that leaves you just under 40 million before taxes per band member in 2000 money.

So it’s not really that much money.

Sells short sighted. Leave something for your kids or family.

Seems shortsighted. Why sell your music and forgo any royalties? Or is it that the streaming business is so not worth it that the royalties are worth less than $300 million?

We are already rely on China to make every bit of plastic junk that’s in your apartment anyway what’s the difference between them making all the fucking solar panels?

The West sold its corporate soul to China for three decades of cheap knickknacks and now they’re complaining that the bill is getting higher.

Wait till you read about gait recognition. Add that to data streams consolidated by Palantir tracking your gps via cell phone, purchase tracking, and they don’t really need to see your face. They can still track you by your cars registration plates with enough accuracy.

They will have a 90% tracking rate regardless of your face being behind a mask.

Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.

Wrong answers = more tokens sold.