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Yes.

AI companies will continue to buy up all the RAM so you and I have to pay the cost for it.

They will also eat up all the energy so you and I have to pay more for energy.

They will also then try and put you and I out of a job.

And if they fail to do so, they will then get your and my tax dollars to bail them out.

There should be real AI research and technology development, but the way it’s being done right now is heads the AI hyperscalers win, tails, all of us lose.

It’s being run as a massive scam against the rest of us.





We need to figure out how AI can use housing and food to complete resource exhaustion. You forgot to include AI water consumption.

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It’s all very Orwellian. Consolidation of resources and the eventual result of total control over those.

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It's like cancer eating at the body.

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Lets be honest: Most peoples computing needs have been satisfied in the last decade.

FOMO and Number goes up is the primary issue both with AI and most compute today.

There's so many made up numbers these days that does zero productive work, like FPS, refresh rates, 4k, 8k, 16k.

Bloat is everywhere.

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When the battery in my current laptop dies and I need to get a new one, none of that matters.

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