The AI-Bubble's Most Likely Endgame Looks to Be Not Apocalypse, But an Awful Lot of Useful Compost
All the digging will not uncover a Golden ASI Pony. But the digging will spread an awful lot of very useful fertilizer around, in which very useful and valuable things will grow…
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All the digging will not uncover a Golden ASI Pony. But the digging will spread an awful lot of very useful fertilizer around, in which very useful and valuable things will grow…
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2025-12-05 Fr
#the-ai-bubbles-most-likely-endgame #not-apocalypse #useful-compost #mamlms #subturingbradbot #macro-outlook #ai-bubble #this-is-nuts-whens-the-crash
The AI-Bubble's Most Likely Endgame Looks to Be Not Apocalypse, But an Awful Lot of Useful Compost
All the digging will not uncover a Golden ASI Pony. But the digging will spread an awful lot fo very useful fertilizer around, in which very useful and valuable things will grow...Brad DeLong (DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before)
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in reply to delong • • •The dot-com bubble was overly optimistic about a real thing (networking) and built real stuff in excess of requirements, which could be repurposed later.
The AI bubble is actively inimical (it wants to reduce as many people as possible to a condition of servitude) and from a technology standpoint is a demonstration of religious piety. There isn't going to be any useful real stuff; the post-crash position will amount to trying to find material utility in a thurible.