"And a lot of this excessive complexity lodges itself in finance, because using operations that few people can understand serves beautifully in the engineering of frauds and swindles."
Could AI and all the gashing of teeth actually be like climate change. As in fake, blown up out of proportion. Data centers are not new. I worked data centers inside large manufacturing plants as an electrician in the 70-80s. Asking for a friend. And your article is again 100% correct.
I think you are right. I am no techie but I have read some articles by Jay Valentine (Omega4America) wherein he says that all the AI stuff can be done one small computers, that the giant facilities aren't necessary. He's been spot on about a lot of things, especially the voting chicanery.
I'm fond of that one! I am NOT enamored of AI! (Too many Terminator movies?) I think it's all going to fall apart before long. Depends on the 2028 vote.
In the 80s it was discovered by the sons and grandsons of the Builders that engineering money directly paid better than engineering Stuff. Unless that syndrome can be addressed -- 110% taxes on unearned profits? -- we're Done.
Once again, I am amazed at what you are able to do with several paragraphs. Another outgrowth of this "something for nothing" society are these newly packaged casinos for the Palookas called "Prediction Markets." Endless waves of ads are attempting to addict and destroy a huge number of Dufi (plural of Dufus) by encouraging them to pick up their cell phones and bet, uh predict, on anything and everything. Every ball game has a pop up ad telling the Dufi they can bet on how many pitches, hits etc. will occur in that inning. Even the WNBA has Lisa Leslie at every game break doing ads for Prediction Markets. The Evil Ones must just love this. They can destroy people financially driving them even deeper into despair for fun and profit. Oh, and don't worry. The "experts" say only eight or nine percent of the population might become addicted to this repackaged gambling craze, so only thirty million of our fellows will be ruined. No biggy, right?
You’re so right John! As our society becomes increasingly stupid and high, these same zombies waste everything their parents worked for on gambling and drugs.
The productive side of the Hamiltonian model – without the financial chicanery – is certainly what we need for a desirable future. Unfortunately, our productive infrastructure has atrophied and been sold off in favor of fantasy wealth consisting of pixels on screens. (Eighty thousand dollar Bitcoins? Puh-leeze.)
Perhaps Private Equity and the oligarchs will awaken to their civic duty, and plow their notional wealth back into reindustrializing America. (for which Mr. Trump’s tariffs will be an essential part of the process)
Perhaps those speculating on an AI Utopia, and counting on us proles to subsidize their dream with our generated electricity and municipal water supplies, will awaken to their folly, and redirect their investing in that which is real.
Perhaps we’ll all wake up back in Kansas, with Auntie Em mopping our fevered brow. But I suspect that we are still in Oz.
Look at the entire infrastructure of the US, is it equal in value to the money that has been spent? IOW, do we have something we can see or touch for every dollar that has been spent? Or has fiat money taken the place of say 40% of the “wealth” and we have nothing to show for what we have built as a society.
A good example is a house. What does it take to build a house, labor and materials? How can a house be “worth” 3-4 times the value it represents? Inflation? Fiat? Or both?
Yes. The infrastructure does not live up to the money spent. Our highways and airports look like third-world shit holes. $195 billion given to Ukraine since 2022, not a penny spent in USA.
Just yesterday Zalenskyy and former VP Mike Pence on CNN saying we need to give more money and missiles to Ukraine to keep the war going. Inflation running wild while they continue to print more fiat.
$195B to gaze on rubble and a drone filled sky? Out here I am hearing commercial build is $400 a sq.ft. and the housing market is selling at $300+ a square foot. Ridiculous.
Fiat is inflation or the vehicle for inflation. It is an instrument of theft and stealth taxation. An instrument of enslavement. According to the Austrian School, you can tighten your belt and make the hard decision to fix things, or you push the pedal to the metal with inflating to oblivion until it blows up. They have obviously chosen the latter. We are in the Katastrophenhausse or "Crackup Boom" where it looks likes like everything is going to the moon but is just the extra money being put to work in the Flucht in die Sachwerte or "Escape to things of value." Signs of this are hoarding of precious metals, collectibles, Prepper items etc. The World's central banks are suddenly believers in the metals they only a few years ago dismissed as "barbarous relics." As Nixon once said "We are all Keynesians now," one may now state "We are all Barbarians now." At least the students of monetary history are.
Both AI, and "data centers", are simply architectural structures of the Globalist digital prison being built by the Totalitarian Transhumanistic Technocrats....that's too obvious!.... We're still in a movie theater, watching the original theatrical release of "The Wizard of Oz", and we're either a cowardly, scaredy-cat lion, a stupid, brainless scarecrow, a useless, rusty old robot, a dog, a young, fertile woman, flying monkeys, or an image much bigger but false than we appear. We're all that in the reality of the movie. Can't you imagine a re-make of WoOz, with a fully digital Emerald City?....That's what's happening now....The Wizard of Oz was a speculative documentary, just like "The Matrix", and "Terminator"....see?....
Those Totalitarian Transhuman Technocrats will make Hitler's SS look like Tele Tubbies....
....but only if WE THE PEOPLE let them be that....
Private equity and the oligarchs will not awaken to their civic duty. Private equity and the oligarchs have devoted, are devoting, and will continue to devote significant resources to drowning the very concept of civic duty in the bathtub. It interferes with their accumulation, you see. They cannot be brought to enlightenment, they have to be taken on and defeated.
The problem with capitalism is that it systematically diverts the value of millions upon millions of people's productive work into the pockets of owners. Mind you, there is no system where workers can keep 100% of the value of their work, since there will always be people (infants/children, the elderly, the infirm, people in general who are allowed to be idle in ways that society finds acceptable, such as clergy) who don't work and thus live on work done by others. It follows, then, that living on other people's productivity can't be all bad. Demand that everyone work for every crumb of their daily bread without exception and we would all end up saddled with indenture contracts at birth (otherwise known as slavery, an institution which happily has been exterminated with extreme prejudice).
If you want an example of entropy, look no further than the piles of wealth accumulated by Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and others. The process of alienating most of humanity from the value of its own work has spawned a species of monetary black holes that now exist simply to accrete, ever more and more, without end. Left to do as they will, the oligarchs will swallow everything and the rest of us will indeed be reduced to 'indenture at birth'.
The problem with communism is that it systematically diverts the value of millions upon millions of people's productive work into the pockets of the state. FIFY
Easy, do your part, do not “buy” anything these people have created? No Facebook, no MAPS, no Amazon, no PCs. The Leftist BS about the wealthy is just that, BS. How much of those fortunes are investments in their own stock? Stock is only wealth when it is sold. The Dems want to tax those assets that are really not wealth.
Musk has sunk most of his wealth into the next creation he has developed. Trump has put his $ into future projects, some of which made him money, some of which bankrupted him.
Tax the rich is Leftist propaganda to “save the nation”. Those with ignorance of what wealth is are suckers for their tripe.
There’s an entire generation of young workers in this country who struggle mightily to make a go of it by working a regular job — enough of a go, anyway, to afford basic health insurance, housing, food, and also be able scrape together the economic wherewithal to actually raise a family.
Hence the insane popularity of get-rich-quick-for-nothing schemes like cryptocurrency and sports betting, especially for the youngest generations. Both of these are growing at exponential rates, while producing exactly nothing of value for society. Nothing alarming there.
Meanwhile, our federal debt has quickly ballooned to $40 trillion — roughly 25% of which was accumulated just during the 5.7 years of Trump’s presidencies. Who would have thunk that huge tax cuts to corporations and billionaires wouldn’t pay for themselves, (just as they haven’t paid for themselves for the past 40 years)? And — whoops — so much for the “trillions” in promised DOGE savings, and the magic of tariff revenues. Those tariff refund checks will appear in your mailbox any day now. Have patience.
This house of cards will inevitably collapse, sooner or later. When it does, I seriously doubt your unique Bitcoin or TrumpCoin sequence of ones and zeroes housed on computer CPUs around the world will feed and house you. Good luck. You’ll need it to win big at sports betting.
First, you mentioned "entropy". OK, fine, but have you considered the "entropification of entropy"? No, I don't know whether that's a real thing, or not, but I do NOT fear any stupid old "entropy". Not in any human affairs, and scientific entropy won't really be a problem for bazillions of year, so, so what? And you're spot on about the historical part of your analysis. but I don't think you've gotten the present/near future quite right. We are well into a TOTALITARIAN TRANSHUMANISTIC TECHNOCRACY - "3T" future.... with Elon Musk & Klaus Schwab as the Technocrats....
So what we need NOW, is a re-humanization. Mother Earth, Mother Nature, is pregnant with human possibility. Mother Earth is actually giving birth to her human race species baby. Baby Humanity, being bore out of the Mother's body into SPACE. Trump has given us "Space Force", right? See where we're going? It's fine to have our heads in the clouds, or even in outer space, but we need to keep our feet solidly planted on the ground of Mother Earth, and keep our lives in harmony with Mother Nature. Sure, we can make robots, but we shouldn't keep making human robots. Cyborgs are cool in science fiction movies, and Star Trek, but a human-Borg merger is NOT in our best interests! Neither is "SkyNet-AI"..... We need the calm, rational, logical, male mind of Republicans. NOT the angry-hot, irrational, illogical, female mind of the demon-rat Democrats. Both parties are leading us into Technocracy, but the leftist/liberal/Democrat technocracy is 100% DYSTOPIAN.... Only the more rational male-brained Technocracy of Republican values can save us now....Read: Article IV, Section 4, U.S. Constitution. Of course I'm biased. I'm a man. And a life-long Independent voter. We need hopeful, unafraid, not-angry or scared, FREE thinking and living. That government is best, which governs least, and that is NOT Democrats! And having first given us everything, and now well into taking it all away, Gov't needs to do a much better job of GIVING BACK, to WE THE PEOPLE....
A simple example of the Big Picture problem is being played out in the Southwest right now. Technology tamed the Colorado River during a time of less population that allowed a repository of water to balance out shortfalls during drought and more so population increases. Like the rest of the world’s resources, the water is running out due to limited resource availability but more so due to overpopulation. The world is facing freak water depletion, but the Southwest is the poster child.
The answers are going to be forced down humanity’s throat, creation of new resources, alternatives or less people. It will not be pretty, and it will take the form of increased competition for those resources. People are going to die.
remember the old college bathroom graffiti?: "GOD IS DEAD! - Nietzsche", and next to it, "Nietzsche is dead" - God"?....that puts Nietzsche in his proper perspective, LOL!....God bless good ole' Nietzsche!....
Thank you James🙏 and as artificial intelligence controls the demise of human intelligence, the only way for humanity to survive is through artificial payments. Very much like our current ghetto society’s, existing from birth to death on our artificial fiat currency. As the world turns, and The Matrix and Terminator are becoming increasingly real, I’m continuing to enjoy my non artificial reality and the moment. Tomorrow is never promised 🤔
Another problem for the Trumpster- coming into the winter heating and voting season with fuel oil running $5 a gallon. Speaking as a total MAGA loyalist- OUCH!
The timing with this Strait of Hormuz caper was way off.
"And a lot of this excessive complexity lodges itself in finance, because using operations that few people can understand serves beautifully in the engineering of frauds and swindles."
See: The Income Tax Code
Yes, it works very well, exactly the way it was intentionally designed to work!....
Crafted with many loopholes, most just can't afford to navigate them.
Most just don't know the loopholes exist, or that they can be navigated through, right?....
Social Security and Medicare.
Could AI and all the gashing of teeth actually be like climate change. As in fake, blown up out of proportion. Data centers are not new. I worked data centers inside large manufacturing plants as an electrician in the 70-80s. Asking for a friend. And your article is again 100% correct.
I think you are right. I am no techie but I have read some articles by Jay Valentine (Omega4America) wherein he says that all the AI stuff can be done one small computers, that the giant facilities aren't necessary. He's been spot on about a lot of things, especially the voting chicanery.
Debauched finance begets a debauched society.
Yes, how can a society exist without some form of exchange between its people.
Language
Money
Heritage
Jim, one of your finest! Back to truer form, JHK content at it's finest!
What a beautiful Monday lyric: "...the rackets and hallucinations that magically levitate them dissolve in foul mists of reveal."
Thanx for that.
“For instance, the acid trip of artificial intelligence (AI).”
Wait until you come down....
I'm fond of that one! I am NOT enamored of AI! (Too many Terminator movies?) I think it's all going to fall apart before long. Depends on the 2028 vote.
Isn't that just the best prose ever!!! I read it over and over.
In the 80s it was discovered by the sons and grandsons of the Builders that engineering money directly paid better than engineering Stuff. Unless that syndrome can be addressed -- 110% taxes on unearned profits? -- we're Done.
Once again, I am amazed at what you are able to do with several paragraphs. Another outgrowth of this "something for nothing" society are these newly packaged casinos for the Palookas called "Prediction Markets." Endless waves of ads are attempting to addict and destroy a huge number of Dufi (plural of Dufus) by encouraging them to pick up their cell phones and bet, uh predict, on anything and everything. Every ball game has a pop up ad telling the Dufi they can bet on how many pitches, hits etc. will occur in that inning. Even the WNBA has Lisa Leslie at every game break doing ads for Prediction Markets. The Evil Ones must just love this. They can destroy people financially driving them even deeper into despair for fun and profit. Oh, and don't worry. The "experts" say only eight or nine percent of the population might become addicted to this repackaged gambling craze, so only thirty million of our fellows will be ruined. No biggy, right?
You’re so right John! As our society becomes increasingly stupid and high, these same zombies waste everything their parents worked for on gambling and drugs.
If you haven't already, watch the film "Idiocracy". We are almost there.
The productive side of the Hamiltonian model – without the financial chicanery – is certainly what we need for a desirable future. Unfortunately, our productive infrastructure has atrophied and been sold off in favor of fantasy wealth consisting of pixels on screens. (Eighty thousand dollar Bitcoins? Puh-leeze.)
Perhaps Private Equity and the oligarchs will awaken to their civic duty, and plow their notional wealth back into reindustrializing America. (for which Mr. Trump’s tariffs will be an essential part of the process)
Perhaps those speculating on an AI Utopia, and counting on us proles to subsidize their dream with our generated electricity and municipal water supplies, will awaken to their folly, and redirect their investing in that which is real.
Perhaps we’ll all wake up back in Kansas, with Auntie Em mopping our fevered brow. But I suspect that we are still in Oz.
Bloody Bill Anderson did tell Josie Wales "You'll find them in Kansas."
Look at the entire infrastructure of the US, is it equal in value to the money that has been spent? IOW, do we have something we can see or touch for every dollar that has been spent? Or has fiat money taken the place of say 40% of the “wealth” and we have nothing to show for what we have built as a society.
A good example is a house. What does it take to build a house, labor and materials? How can a house be “worth” 3-4 times the value it represents? Inflation? Fiat? Or both?
Yes. The infrastructure does not live up to the money spent. Our highways and airports look like third-world shit holes. $195 billion given to Ukraine since 2022, not a penny spent in USA.
Just yesterday Zalenskyy and former VP Mike Pence on CNN saying we need to give more money and missiles to Ukraine to keep the war going. Inflation running wild while they continue to print more fiat.
Idiocracy, the movie!!!
$195B to gaze on rubble and a drone filled sky? Out here I am hearing commercial build is $400 a sq.ft. and the housing market is selling at $300+ a square foot. Ridiculous.
Fiat is inflation or the vehicle for inflation. It is an instrument of theft and stealth taxation. An instrument of enslavement. According to the Austrian School, you can tighten your belt and make the hard decision to fix things, or you push the pedal to the metal with inflating to oblivion until it blows up. They have obviously chosen the latter. We are in the Katastrophenhausse or "Crackup Boom" where it looks likes like everything is going to the moon but is just the extra money being put to work in the Flucht in die Sachwerte or "Escape to things of value." Signs of this are hoarding of precious metals, collectibles, Prepper items etc. The World's central banks are suddenly believers in the metals they only a few years ago dismissed as "barbarous relics." As Nixon once said "We are all Keynesians now," one may now state "We are all Barbarians now." At least the students of monetary history are.
Both AI, and "data centers", are simply architectural structures of the Globalist digital prison being built by the Totalitarian Transhumanistic Technocrats....that's too obvious!.... We're still in a movie theater, watching the original theatrical release of "The Wizard of Oz", and we're either a cowardly, scaredy-cat lion, a stupid, brainless scarecrow, a useless, rusty old robot, a dog, a young, fertile woman, flying monkeys, or an image much bigger but false than we appear. We're all that in the reality of the movie. Can't you imagine a re-make of WoOz, with a fully digital Emerald City?....That's what's happening now....The Wizard of Oz was a speculative documentary, just like "The Matrix", and "Terminator"....see?....
Those Totalitarian Transhuman Technocrats will make Hitler's SS look like Tele Tubbies....
....but only if WE THE PEOPLE let them be that....
Private equity and the oligarchs will not awaken to their civic duty. Private equity and the oligarchs have devoted, are devoting, and will continue to devote significant resources to drowning the very concept of civic duty in the bathtub. It interferes with their accumulation, you see. They cannot be brought to enlightenment, they have to be taken on and defeated.
The problem with capitalism is that it systematically diverts the value of millions upon millions of people's productive work into the pockets of owners. Mind you, there is no system where workers can keep 100% of the value of their work, since there will always be people (infants/children, the elderly, the infirm, people in general who are allowed to be idle in ways that society finds acceptable, such as clergy) who don't work and thus live on work done by others. It follows, then, that living on other people's productivity can't be all bad. Demand that everyone work for every crumb of their daily bread without exception and we would all end up saddled with indenture contracts at birth (otherwise known as slavery, an institution which happily has been exterminated with extreme prejudice).
If you want an example of entropy, look no further than the piles of wealth accumulated by Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and others. The process of alienating most of humanity from the value of its own work has spawned a species of monetary black holes that now exist simply to accrete, ever more and more, without end. Left to do as they will, the oligarchs will swallow everything and the rest of us will indeed be reduced to 'indenture at birth'.
The problem with communism is that it systematically diverts the value of millions upon millions of people's productive work into the pockets of the state. FIFY
Easy, do your part, do not “buy” anything these people have created? No Facebook, no MAPS, no Amazon, no PCs. The Leftist BS about the wealthy is just that, BS. How much of those fortunes are investments in their own stock? Stock is only wealth when it is sold. The Dems want to tax those assets that are really not wealth.
Musk has sunk most of his wealth into the next creation he has developed. Trump has put his $ into future projects, some of which made him money, some of which bankrupted him.
Tax the rich is Leftist propaganda to “save the nation”. Those with ignorance of what wealth is are suckers for their tripe.
We already are indentured at birth to the tune of $117,000 and climbing . I consider this 'public debt ' entirely Odious in nature .
There’s an entire generation of young workers in this country who struggle mightily to make a go of it by working a regular job — enough of a go, anyway, to afford basic health insurance, housing, food, and also be able scrape together the economic wherewithal to actually raise a family.
Hence the insane popularity of get-rich-quick-for-nothing schemes like cryptocurrency and sports betting, especially for the youngest generations. Both of these are growing at exponential rates, while producing exactly nothing of value for society. Nothing alarming there.
Meanwhile, our federal debt has quickly ballooned to $40 trillion — roughly 25% of which was accumulated just during the 5.7 years of Trump’s presidencies. Who would have thunk that huge tax cuts to corporations and billionaires wouldn’t pay for themselves, (just as they haven’t paid for themselves for the past 40 years)? And — whoops — so much for the “trillions” in promised DOGE savings, and the magic of tariff revenues. Those tariff refund checks will appear in your mailbox any day now. Have patience.
This house of cards will inevitably collapse, sooner or later. When it does, I seriously doubt your unique Bitcoin or TrumpCoin sequence of ones and zeroes housed on computer CPUs around the world will feed and house you. Good luck. You’ll need it to win big at sports betting.
Great podcast with Jeff Tucker, sir.
First, you mentioned "entropy". OK, fine, but have you considered the "entropification of entropy"? No, I don't know whether that's a real thing, or not, but I do NOT fear any stupid old "entropy". Not in any human affairs, and scientific entropy won't really be a problem for bazillions of year, so, so what? And you're spot on about the historical part of your analysis. but I don't think you've gotten the present/near future quite right. We are well into a TOTALITARIAN TRANSHUMANISTIC TECHNOCRACY - "3T" future.... with Elon Musk & Klaus Schwab as the Technocrats....
So what we need NOW, is a re-humanization. Mother Earth, Mother Nature, is pregnant with human possibility. Mother Earth is actually giving birth to her human race species baby. Baby Humanity, being bore out of the Mother's body into SPACE. Trump has given us "Space Force", right? See where we're going? It's fine to have our heads in the clouds, or even in outer space, but we need to keep our feet solidly planted on the ground of Mother Earth, and keep our lives in harmony with Mother Nature. Sure, we can make robots, but we shouldn't keep making human robots. Cyborgs are cool in science fiction movies, and Star Trek, but a human-Borg merger is NOT in our best interests! Neither is "SkyNet-AI"..... We need the calm, rational, logical, male mind of Republicans. NOT the angry-hot, irrational, illogical, female mind of the demon-rat Democrats. Both parties are leading us into Technocracy, but the leftist/liberal/Democrat technocracy is 100% DYSTOPIAN.... Only the more rational male-brained Technocracy of Republican values can save us now....Read: Article IV, Section 4, U.S. Constitution. Of course I'm biased. I'm a man. And a life-long Independent voter. We need hopeful, unafraid, not-angry or scared, FREE thinking and living. That government is best, which governs least, and that is NOT Democrats! And having first given us everything, and now well into taking it all away, Gov't needs to do a much better job of GIVING BACK, to WE THE PEOPLE....
A simple example of the Big Picture problem is being played out in the Southwest right now. Technology tamed the Colorado River during a time of less population that allowed a repository of water to balance out shortfalls during drought and more so population increases. Like the rest of the world’s resources, the water is running out due to limited resource availability but more so due to overpopulation. The world is facing freak water depletion, but the Southwest is the poster child.
The answers are going to be forced down humanity’s throat, creation of new resources, alternatives or less people. It will not be pretty, and it will take the form of increased competition for those resources. People are going to die.
Lovely post! We are living in the Twilight Zone imo. 🤣
“ we have invented happiness, say the last men, and they blink”
—Nietzsche
remember the old college bathroom graffiti?: "GOD IS DEAD! - Nietzsche", and next to it, "Nietzsche is dead" - God"?....that puts Nietzsche in his proper perspective, LOL!....God bless good ole' Nietzsche!....
Shakespeare: “To be or not to be.”
Nietzsche: “To do is to be.”
Sartre: “To be is to do.”
Sinatra: “Do be do be do.”
Cheech & Chong, "Dude, pass that doobie!"
Buddha(not): Be a human doing, do a human being." & "Do a human being, be a human doing."....
Cheech & Chong, redux: "Dat Do be de doobie-doo"....
....wait, who the hell started this crap?....lol
Cheech: Hey man...am I driving ok?
Chong: (After looking around) I think we're parked man...
thanks for the laugh, and I do remember that one.
We need WAY, WAY WAY, MORE laughter these days!....thnx, ttyl....
She offered her honor,
He honored her offer,
And all night long,
It was honor and offer....
Thank you James🙏 and as artificial intelligence controls the demise of human intelligence, the only way for humanity to survive is through artificial payments. Very much like our current ghetto society’s, existing from birth to death on our artificial fiat currency. As the world turns, and The Matrix and Terminator are becoming increasingly real, I’m continuing to enjoy my non artificial reality and the moment. Tomorrow is never promised 🤔
Yep, waiting on Skynet.....
Like humans, all SkyNet needs is a leader.
Or some more RAM....
Still needs a central focus with a message
We are the best and those folks are our enemies. In this case, the enemies are us.
🤣🤣
Another problem for the Trumpster- coming into the winter heating and voting season with fuel oil running $5 a gallon. Speaking as a total MAGA loyalist- OUCH!
The timing with this Strait of Hormuz caper was way off.
I'm not sure timing is the most important factor when a MAGA loyalist ends up referring to what's going on in the Persian Gulf as a "caper".
IT WAS TIMED TO PREVENT SUICIDAL RELIGIOUS FANATICS, BUILDING ICBMS AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, FROM BEGINNING THEIR HOLY WAR.
The Twilight Zone episode on AI is “The Old Man in the Cave,” with James Coburn.
Midterms will be cancelled. Trump told us this. Read between the lines.
If only we could take down Brennan, Comey, Wray et al with it.
AMEN