Silicon Valley is obsessed with talking about the end of the world. They’re largely full of sh*t. But it’s still worth taking AI seriously and asking why we can’t think about moving beyond it (and capitalism.)
Capitalism enables Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance to fuel the fire that is AI as we know it
00:00 - it’s easier to imagine AI ending humanity than the end of capitalism
06:19 - What’s so scary about AI?
09:52 - So why is everyone taking AI so seriously?
11:40 - Why the end times discourse?
17:19 - The logic / theology of disruption
19:47 - Why can’t we disrupt capitalism tho
22:19 - The computer as salvation
24:44 - We don’t need AI. We need to end capitalism
That just means ai gets some military backing to ensure all energy gets diverted to ai and wars for procuring energy for ai while everyone else is just cattle. We are already kind of prepping people for that when trump designates people terrorists for being anti tech/anti ai. We are enforcing it with palantir, flock, etc.
There’s always a little bit more oil or natural gasses they can get for quite a while, just it won’t get used on peasants. The only places that will have power or utility are the “smart” cities with survalience where all the corporations go because its ran like Dubai so it will be heavily survalied, ran by slave labor, and primarily only there to service the ruling class. No one else gets access to infrastructure, power, information, jobs, money etc. Back to the stone ages or you’re thrown in RFK’s rural labor camps
Oh I definitely agree, but my outlook is far more long term. Eventually that energy is going to run out, even if it’s 100 years from now (it’ll be more like 30 years from now though). And climate change will have fucked the planet so hard that agriculture won’t be possible, so there’ll be this one-two punch that wipes put most people.