Post #3916797

2026-07-10 23:35 UTC

Personally, I don't think there is a solid plan. Any plan. They are throwing very expensive spaghetti at the wall, mostly undercooked, and little sticks. They are the gamblers at the roulette table betting the house on double zero. Proven usefulness is rare. Helping people with disabilities leading a more independent life is one of those. Are those the folks with deep pockets? I think film making will include this in one way or another. Does that justify building all these data centers and the costs attached? The only area where I would say to hell with the costs is if this can help in the fields of medicine or pharmacology but I don't think they have proven usefulness there satisfactorily. So who will pay back the insane debt this pie in the sky is baked with? Answer: anybody, as far as the so-called-AI peddlers are concerned. But that wasn't the plan. That's probably already pivot plan T at this point. It's not built for normies, but it's marketed towards them, out of necessity at this point. To the detriment of overall ability to think critically and for the environment.

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@ZDL@lazysoci.al 2026-07-11 00:08

There is a plan, but it is not the plan people think it is. There's an initialization people at large need to learn: [TESCREAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL). It's essentially a religious movement (though the loose association of people in it would not agree to that label) that comes straight out of the pages of LessWrong, which is itself effectively an AI religious cult, complete with its own eschaton in the form of a godlike AI at the end of time that will resurrect all of humanity in the form of algorithmic simulacra, eternally punishing those who did not work toward helping it come into existence. (But no, it's not even slightly a religion. 🙄) So all these AI techbrodouches? Their fanatical devotion to the "AGI" that's coming just around the corner? Their utter contempt for any form of consequences their literally fantastic beliefs and actions may hold? There's a reason for that, and that reason aligns with the neologism TESCREAL.

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