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    Of course its not enough. Stock market cares about money, not morals. They know negative emotions are temporary and doesnt last.

    I see more white Teslas than ever on the streets. They are the most popular company leasing vehicle appearently. A lot of things play into what cars people pick. Most people probably forgot about the nazi salute in a few weeks, or got a good deal on a Tesla and bought it anyway.

    I dont think this is a bubble and it wont burst. I think its the beginning of a switch to a robotic society, with robots, Ai and implants, all requiring more energy than we have right now. The massive investments in power may look like its going to be used for training models, but it will be used for very different things we dont even have right now.

    Any future high tech society will need tons of power. The billionaries are several steps ahead of what the media is talking about. As always.

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        22 hours ago

        No not agi, thats a dream we wont see in decades. But this is the start.

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            Virtual Reality? Not in the way we have it now with huge expensive glasses and special software. Thats just the first experimental phase of the technology.

            I dont think it has a purpose yet. Maybe in the future, it will. Some killer app where VR is essential and everybody wants that app.

            Probably something related to porn. Wouldnt be surprised.

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              I was making a parallel to another wildly over-hyped technology that has had multiple opportunities to make it when it’s clearly only suitable for niche usecases.

              LLMs and “AI” are not useless but the notion that they’ll lead to something significantly more advanced is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the technology.

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                8 hours ago

                VR and Ai are competely different but I understand your perception here. It may seem to you that they are similar and then the Ai race doesnt make sense.

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      If it’s a switch to a robotic AI society, where’s the profit gonna come from? The stock prices reflect expected future profits. If we have more work done by robots and AI, that work isn’t done by people, so people aren’t getting paid for it. Who’s gonna pay for this product to materialize these expected profits?

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        Companies and governments are gonna buy robots, made by other robots. Typical scenarios include military, manifacturing, surveillance and so on.

        Today companies pay humans for those things. It will change as soon as robots can do a task.