Natural stupidity, enhanced by artificial intelligence.

That's the scary stuff

I should've specified. Even after there were a a ton of work put in, doomers existed to the last second. There were doomers who really thought the world was going to end without mentioning the technology aspect of it. These doomers, even after the date passed kept moving up the date and repeated this process.

The streak continues that anyone who uses "doomer" has no fucking clue what they're talking about ..

You deleted your first reply because it was bullshit, then you make a new one to double down on it?

Fuck man, how do you expect to learn anything when the list of shit you need to learn apparently covers everything?

I'm sorry, you lost me at...

but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio

The vast majority of investors, myself included, are ... not that savvy. I only sorted diversification this year and I'm still tech-heavy but we all are just eating what's on our plates and available.

I don't believe these markets will have humanity's interests at heart, either.

I delete my first comment because I specified what I meant in my reply.

If you don't think doomers existed after the year 2000 then look up "2000 anxiety" and "2000 paranoia".

But if I was really going to double down this would by my response:

Many countries invested little to no money in Y2K and they were fine.

Countries such as South Korea, Italy, and Russia invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation,yet had the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money. Western countries anticipated such severe problems in Russia that many issued travel advisories and evacuated non-essential staff.

International Data Corporation estimated that the US might have wasted $40 billion.

Then I would ask you:

Since you are such an expert on Y2K, what would've happened if the US took the same approach? What exactly would have happened?

Yea, fuck all this AI development and companies pushing it into everything.. but I'm not really convinced that AI is gonna be our doom. We're doing it to ourselves already just fine without them.

That's my point.

Unlimited human stupidity fueled by unending greed.

I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn't going to kill us because it grows sentient and "gets ahold of nuclear codes"; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.

AI won't kill us because it's smart, it'll kill us because it's so, SO dumb.

Your last line reminded me of this…

I mean, Sam Altman was literally throwing movie nights at OpenAI HQ with the movie "Her".
So either he didn't get it or his copy conveniently ends at halftime.