Lmao Gen Z are dressing as Millenial Optimism for Halloween

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But that’s… not the key question. “Is this internecine squabble about something Ed said once?” isn’t the question. The question is “is any of this sustainable, why have we folded the entire economy into this gambit, and is this how we should be spending our money?” Ed is right that the answer is no.

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The economics of AI are uniquely ridiculous and bad, though. The money isn't there without a government bailout. They are literally trillions in debt, some of them independently, purely on infrastructure costs that will only keep rising. That the scam has been allowed to continue is not his fault.

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Every single numskull ex-reporter who has been paid off by the AI industry seems to have their knives out for Ed Zitron on Twitter today because he went on The Daily Show's podcast. I don't think it's coordinated, I just think they're all uniformly embarrassed by the same bad hill they're dying on.

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Ah yes… the *true* danger was a ‘centrist’ woman assembling an all-inclusive coalition that was asserting progressive principles (Zizek’s contention). So we elect Trump and… (He hadn’t actually thought this part through beyond there might be downsides.)

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