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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
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[โ€“] belit_deg@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.

What I don't get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means.

Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry https://openai.com/nb-NO/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

Jared Diamond had a great take on this in "Collapse". That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the decisionmakers are insulated from the consequences. On the contrary, they get short term gains.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

We know that our current way of economic growth and consistent new "inventions" is destroying the basis of our life. We know that the only way to stop is to fundamentally redesign the social system, moving away from capitalism, growth economics and ever new gadgets.

But facing this is difficult. Facing this and winning elections with it is even more difficult. Instead claiming there is some wonder technology that will safe us all and putting the eggs in that basket is much easier. It will fail inevitably, but until then it is easier.