In one domain, AI, the US has far outpaced any other nation
Since returning to the White House in January, Donald Trump has handed out huge wins to the coal and oil and gas industries. This is no great surprise. Trump has long been supportive of the US fossil fuel industry and, since his reelection, has appointed several former industry lobbyists to top political positions.
Lol, this isn’t a partisan issue when the entire government is taking lobbying money from those industries. Even the Green New Deal, if that had ever materialized, is still too little too late.
the Green New Deal, if that had ever materialized, is still too little too late
The IRA, which is what we got instead of the GND, was blasted by environmental groups at the time for being a “climate suicide pact” because of how much it opened public lands to new drilling. The US is lashed to the mast of the fossil fuel industry and both will go down together along with planetary habitability.
The entire AI industry is massively unprofitable right now, completely propped up by investor hype and news articles continuing to claim that superintelligence is right around the corner. The actual real world output is… uh, some tech startups are now shitting out unmaintainable proof-of-concept codebases for their dogshit business plans slightly faster than before? Companies paying $200/month/head to make their developers pretend to use Copilot? The only people consistently hyped around it are the capitalists desperate to remove labor from their equations altogether to deal with the rate of profit falling, and much like previous attempts at mass outsourcing it’s just going to blow up in their faces when they have to re-hire a bunch of people to unfuck their efforts to not have to hire those people in the first place.
Lol, this isn’t a partisan issue when the entire government is taking lobbying money from those industries. Even the Green New Deal, if that had ever materialized, is still too little too late.
The IRA, which is what we got instead of the GND, was blasted by environmental groups at the time for being a “climate suicide pact” because of how much it opened public lands to new drilling. The US is lashed to the mast of the fossil fuel industry and both will go down together along with planetary habitability.
And even then theyre leading in AI in brute force metrics like amout of money spent and data centers built
Really because i haven’t heard ANYTHING about actual advances in AI since deepseek btfo’d literally everything the west has been doing.
The ONLY ai “news” ive seen since then is now you can pay $300 a month to maybe see Grok’s avatar’s boobs
Wouldn’t be surprised if Elon got millions from this and it was just this PNG:
Hadn’t noticed the nick land doodle watermarked on the toy
The entire AI industry is massively unprofitable right now, completely propped up by investor hype and news articles continuing to claim that superintelligence is right around the corner. The actual real world output is… uh, some tech startups are now shitting out unmaintainable proof-of-concept codebases for their dogshit business plans slightly faster than before? Companies paying $200/month/head to make their developers pretend to use Copilot? The only people consistently hyped around it are the capitalists desperate to remove labor from their equations altogether to deal with the rate of profit falling, and much like previous attempts at mass outsourcing it’s just going to blow up in their faces when they have to re-hire a bunch of people to unfuck their efforts to not have to hire those people in the first place.