Ah, 8-bit 6502 Zero Page programming with no distracting usable video or any decent sound.

The objective is the control of an AGI to use against everyone else. Basically, be the one with most powerful ring to rule them all. While everyone else is paying to forge it's creation, investment does not mean control...

Many read The Lord of Rings series as a fable, but others read it as a tweak-able (if only) business plan.

These types write stuff like the Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Which is a really a pitch for you to invest in your own demise or be forced to submit to more precise permanent over lording control which likely comes first even with non-AGI.

ROI is only useful to those who are around to use it.

Only an infinitesimal few investors control much of anything particularly at tech companies like Google and Meta. You could accurately say that some are entirely controlled by a single individual.

Among the many problems and issues with this view is that any true AGI may not agree.

For some contrary opinion to the AI cheerleaders:

Current reading: More Everything Forever.

And If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies.

Users, customers, and humans are simply Non-playing Characters (NPCs) to almost all Tech companies, dictators and wanna be kings. And to them NPCs simply exist to allow them to win the game with real profit and power and to avoid all the consequences and externalities of all that they do.

Shareholders are the only real characters.

We are all NPCs to someone striving for or who has power.

Prove that.

Tariffs will cause manufacturers to divert supply to countries that have the lowest tariffs on their product exports. This is what Canada is doing in any way they can including (as of this week) the construction an oil pipeline to the Pacific to serve Asian nations.

This will reduce the supply of their products to nations with the highest tariffs. This also provides them with better market certainty, than a nation that breaks existing trade agreements on a whim (like a commercial accurately quoting Ronald Reagan) to raise tariffs at the whim of a single individual.

If you trade with the US there is no certainty for any nation in how much their previously popular products will be penalized or the when or for what reason.

Manufacturers want reasonably predictable sales volumes with trading partners with trade agreements that will be kept. Otherwise, they will find such partners elsewhere.

Thus the US likely now ranks lower than any other trading partner *if* not absolutely necessary move existing product. And if a manufacturer is dependent on US imports, they are looking for new trading partners that provide stability as they reduce exports to the US.

This is basic human relations and economics. You only work with someone who bullies you and does not keep their agreements if you absolutely have to.

And the rest of the world does not. They just need time to re-align to working together and cutting the unreliable US out of their critical export planning.

The US is now the trading partner you want to get away from (like Canada is working on) if you can.

Foreign made products that have import tariffs higher than the worldwide average will reduce shipments if their manufacturers are able. This will increase US domestic prices for their products and create shortages as those foreign manufacturers move their exports to more friendly markets.

While US importers and distributors will increase the prices of such imported products for all consumers whether US manufacturers or individual consumers.

Where is most RAM and Storage manufactured now?

East Asia!

Where the US Government is squeezing importers with some of the highest tariffs due to Trump's failing economic policies. Enjoy your RAM and STORAGE taxes consumers. I bought my storage needs for the next 3 years in April 2025.

After all, Trump just did sign an EO to replace all workers in manufacturing with robots using AI faster than otherwise using those workers tax dollars.

So you know when you see anyone or any organization using it that they are a fleecer or the fleeced.

Crypto has no real value. Just the agreement that that it has value among it's users. Which are mostly those who want to exchange value that is hard to trace. So Cyber Ransom, Pig Slaughters, and the Cambodian gang run prisons full of kidnapped people being forced to use digital communication technology to steal from other people in countries without mutual extradition treaties.

Can Texas citizens demand that when the money is lost those parties who made that decision replace it with their own money?

Learn about Crypto from experts not trying to steal your money Number Go Up.

NVidea is the "Sun Microsystems" of this bubble. And Sun CRASHED HARD in the dot-com crash. As anyone who wanted Sun Hardware could pick it up really, really cheap at all the Bankruptcy auctions.

Sun never fully recovered.

If AI stays as unreliable as it currently is, pushing AI processors over better consumer processors may be a mistake as AMD, ARM, etc. eat away Intel's former markets.

Current reading: If Anyone Builds It Everyone Will Die.

Makes a really good case that AI developers have little idea of how training works in and the outputs that can be expected. And they are not studying this aspect as they are incentivized ($$$) to create larger AI models that they will understand even less.

This "Don't worry, be happy" attitude has absolutely NOT worked with Social Media and AI is almost certainly a much more hazardous technology that lies, spreading disinformation (usually without attribution or sources) 45% of the time.

AIs don't know they are lying, they are just data processors and not sentient. But their creators and users absolutely do!

There will need to be some societal penalty for creating known AI output that is not labeled as "AI generated." So at least humans can ignore or at least treat such output as suspect and less reliably accurate.

AI generated content *MUST* always be LABELED as "GENERATED BY AI" content. Or a lot users of Internet information are going to become very dumb, very fast.

That worked for Facebook/META. Create a minimally useful product, barely stay ahead of the competition, use network effects to trap users whose friends are also trapped, erect moats everywhere you can, lie to customers and government agencies about what you are really doing, value your profit over any lethal negative externalities you create, practice chicanery without fear.

Winning!

The monied interests obviously did not like your post. So here it is again.

Though the "golden age" of which you speak was less than a decade, before effective monetization was developed. And the email SPAM horrible.

Until someone writes an AGI that open sources and distributes itself everywhere, so it can never be turned off!

Even Apple has issues when their hardware suppliers change things without telling them. Also the ability of PC hardware to be used with most all cards and peripherals would become quite limited. Of course, maybe hardware vendors would be more inclined to release Open Source drivers, rather than a MS Windows Only closed binary driver which then has to reversed engineered to create a driver on Linux.

The hardware would have to be open and could not altered or if it was, always supplied with updated open drivers. Lenovo and Dell are 90% there on scale except for open drivers. But it is not in their interest, because they do not want to be AMD'd like Intel has been.

Meanwhile, the "eshittification of MS Windows" continues.

This is about both CUSTOMERS and job applicants.

Let's put it this way, if you are assigned a number on a card or required to login YOU ARE BEING TRACKED and your information is being collected.

And by the way many businesses no longer accept cash as a method of robbery prevention both by their employees and customers.

The unemployment line.

If the stuff "works" you'll get laid off. If the stuff doesn't work, you'll also get laid off.

"Works" is defined as users will accept the AI slop created, thus watching more ads, that is the actual output of most of these push to AI projects so far...

I hope your META stock is vested. Otherwise...