This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…

It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…

But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.

Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.

It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.

Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.

I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup

I have doubles of the data. Some of 'em. That way I know I have a pristine one in backup. Then I can use it, it gets corrupted, I don’t care.

Actually, I have triples of the W2s. I have triples, right? If I don’t, the other stuff’s not true.

See, the W2s the one I have triples of. Oh, no, actually, I also have triples of the kids photos, too. But just those two. And your dad and I are the same age, and I’m rich and I have triples of the W2s and the kids photos.

Triples makes it safe.

Triples is best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Inf1Yz_fgk

A lot of the electrical grid is actually cooperativly owned

Sure, if you care about miles of wire and not customers, it sounds huge…

But anyone who hears that should be able to quickly figure out why it’s not relevant

So leave it with the oligarchs who are actively brining trump to make it worse?

What the fuck kind of learned helplessness is this?

Yeah they beat and starve us, but if we stop them from doing it someone might show up and if we let them they’d beat and starve us to!!!

Like, fucking newsflash man:

This is a continual fight, and boomers acting like it wasn’t is why shit is like it is today. No matter what happens this fight never stops

It’s a month old account.

But the biggest redflag is she’s never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO…

She literally has no idea how any of it works

It doesn’t matter who has it, it’s the one ring.

It’s sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they’ll be able to keep it.

That’s why there’s such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it’s not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it’s built.

Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.

People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.

However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…

Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

So to clarify, what’s good is:

A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working

Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

An example of what is bad is:

“Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.

I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an unimportant archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.

I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.

Yeah, that’s how politicians get the insider tips, it’s bribes to not go after the person who gave them the tip.

If enough of the right people make enough money, then everything about it becomes legal, or at worse a fine that’s less than the profits made.

Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.

They need the hard drives because they’re storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.

Not even just the people we know we know, they’ll know who’s usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time…

Like, “skynet” is useful because everyone knows the term.

The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.

Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?

You think they’re above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.

Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.

Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.

These companies are publicly traded…

The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases.

But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply.

Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed

As a bonus, the news that you’re overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn’t hurt your company it helps it.

There’s no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price.

That’s not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That’s a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.

but at the end of the day the dumb masses drove the country off the cliff

You still don’t understand.

But unfortunately repeati g my advice is unlikely to help regardless of if I do it now or a month from now if we run into each other again.

Nothing personal, I just don’t wanna go thru this again later if I know how it’ll end.

It literally took democracy to basically collapse and people to literally die on the streets for some groups to wake up

For you…

It took demographicsyou identify with experiencing those things for you to notice groups waking up.

But different demographics have been thru this for generations, and various groups have been waking up to it for just as long

So congrats for joining us. Just try to remember you’re not the first, and you hopefully won’t be the last. Look around and realize that as you come up with “new” ideas, some people been in this so long they learned it from their grandfather before they learned how to ride a bike.

That’s a good thing for you. You don’t have to start from scratch.

Just open your eyes some more, stay woke, don’t get mad your not a leader and quit.

I’m sorry but there may be smart Americans out there but, and a population, Americans are basically a blob of idiotic sociopaths

You’re missing the point…

Even with the dumbest audience possible, if two people are trying to convince the audience a charismatic liar can win if their opponent is also lying or has no charisma.

But no matter how charismatic or how good of a liar. It’s really fucking hard to beat someone with average charisma who doesn’t need to lie about wanting to help people

Look at Mamdani, I love the guy.

But people act like he’s dripping charisma just because he’s compared to Eric Adams.

He’s not that charismatic, watch his interviews with Mero, he’s a nerd from the Bronx.

It’s just an honest person that wants to help doesn’t need a lot of charisma, cuz they’re not selling lies

The day Mamdani won the primary, the current chair of the DNC came out saying all this too, and saying that’s what we need as a dem.presidential candidate in 2028.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of a trial over whether Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people.

Ironically I think rather than them wearing them for nefarious reasons, they’ve just been encouraged to use them for so long, that they are actually addicted to them as well.

Like, if you were forced to use your employers product at work for 10-12 hrs a day and try to come up with way to monetize it in your off hours, you may start to rely on it eventually.

Our brains are wired to always take the easiest path, that’s actually the reason for technological advancement in the first place.

They probably just don’t even realize they’re wearing them, it’s just a (mostly useless and completely impractical) part of their bodies now.

Pretty sure you had to tie a phone number to an account for years now…

Everyone that interacts with that stuff, Elmo knows.

Imagine getting a phone call from a bot one day going over all the worst shit you’ve done on the internet and saying if you don’t do x/y/z then it’ll release your history to everyone you know.

It’s a large scale Epstein style blackmail ring on average people.

Which doesn’t sound that scary till you realize they know everything about these, where they live, who they work for, who their neighbors are, what picks up kids from the same school.

There’s no indication it’s happening yet, but does anyone think Elmo is above it? Hell, he could be DMing people saying they have to vote Republican or he releases their Twitter history.

Huh?

A big reason trump got so many votes is he lied about draining the swamp and his voters are dumb enough to believe him.

They can be dumb and believe someone who means it when they say it.

Like, you’re making a valid point, then reaching the literal opposite conclusion that logic should take us too

We can’t afford to be that shortsighted, think stuff thru.

Silver lining: it’s gonna get bad enough we can start nationalizing shit as early as 2029 like FDR did after the great depression.

If a candidate said:

There should be no utilities monoplies by for profit companies

Fucking 99.99% of voters would listen to anything else they had to say.

There’s so many things that need fixed that everyone agrees on, we just haven’t had a candidate free of corporate influence.

But the next Dem primary is a better shot than we’ve ever had. We just need to make sure as many people as possible vote in the primary.

The problem is every CEO knows it’s a bubble, and all are just trying to kick the can down the road long enough they can get out with their money before it bursts.

Everyone knows it’s going to happen. But to admit it would be career suicide, with the amount of money at stake for so many people, it might legit cost them their lives if they’re honest.

Trillions and trillions of dollars that could disappear in the blink of an eye when stock prices hit zero.

And when the big ones go to zero, there’s a very good chance it crashes everything because a few megacorps own everything.

Ironically the real apocalypse AI is likely to cause, is some kind of Mad Max situation after the bubble bursts. Especially in America where necessary infrastructure like food supply is run by private mega corps, if grocery stores are empty for two weeks shit gets insane quick.