"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman
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There you go, there it is. Yup.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” pic.twitter.com/KuoMDp1upQ— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 12, 2026Chief Nerd (X (formerly Twitter))
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Age verification for the services I run? Solved. I look in my passport, verify that I am 18 years or older, look in the mirror to check that it is really me and after that I install Yet Another Service on my server to become less dependent on big tech :)
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I KNEW IT!
I am ahead of my time!!!
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I completely agree with this article. AI doesn't replace tech jobs as much as provides convinient excuse to bully expensive engineers into submission.
Fire many, force others to do their job or else
Previously these actions led to sharp stock price decline, now CEOs tell tales of AI replacing...
@iurii
I saw this earlier:
@bytevagabond.com
10 years of OpenAI:
2015: $0 profit
2025: Still $0 profit (but in a blazer)
Lost ~$8B in 2025.
Projected $14B loss in 2026.
Deutsche Bank estimates $143B in negative cash flow before profitability.
@iurii @krystyna
Problem is, these giants also can't make a profit with it.
Hardly anyone actually wants to pay anything for AI, and even less are willing to pay the real price.
All the expensive hardware will be obsolete in two or three years and to this day I have not seen a single actually "disruptive" and functional use case for LLMs. Small improvements here and there, sure, but providing free coffee would have produced the same productivity boost.
I have a different take:
* AI will not replace writing code, we're just going through a hype phase, the outcome of which will confirm AI produces code that is uneconomical to fix.
BUT
* Coding will become a commodity skill, with a very large talent pool, and the vast vast majority of coding needs being vanilla bread-and-butter requiring no specialist expertise. This will mean wages for coders will drop, and as individuals they will have to accept a drastic drop in people treating them as special. Lots of egos will be bruised in the transition.
BUT ALSO
* the value of people who can combine technical talent with understanding people and their needs, understanding product design, .. will remain high. These are the people who solve problems and build valuable products. This combination of skills has not been prevalent in the coding community, some might persuasively argue.
If you want to feel special, and earn lots, become a plumber, a dentist.
Learn Mandarin, not C++.
Current contract comes to an end in a couple of months... and I'm not renewing it... because the offer was insulting and they're trying to push AI into it when it would endanger and compromise security.
Funnily enough... the client has expressed interest in having me do some consulting work for them... on the software I was managing development of.
And somewhere, deep in the bowels of a large finance company, one of the old farts who still know COBOL and FORTRAN is tapping away on a keyboard.
"AI? I don't need no stinking AI."
George Carlin famously said that politics and economy are "a big club and you ain't in it."
The #Epstein files are showing how right he was, especially this one, in which Epstein cackles with his pal Peter Thiel about how #Brexit was "just the beginning" of their plans to destroy governments and institute a "return to tribalism."
They elected Trump knowing that he is a corrupt/evil imbecile who destroys anything he touches.
It's all about buying the dip justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…
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#Brexit... the identifiable Con
We were played by the Wealthy
We 'Ordinary people' in the UK have demonstratably lost out and are poorer due to Brexit.
While the wealthy have increased their wealth
Our freedom is deciding if we have beans on toast or egg on toast..... or if it's cold enough to turn on the heating
The wealthiest freedom is deciding which shares to buy... or where to overwinter.
Tax the superwealthy and Govern for all not just the rich
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Update: Epstein and Thiel discussing advice for Donald Trump in August of 2016 on what to say regarding Trump's refusal to release his tax returns.
This looks like two close friends concerned for their pal Donny.
Source: justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Christine Lemmer-Webber
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •I'm not claiming that they're right, that you are actually buying "intelligence" from them by the meter, I think that's misleading.
But also, the fact that that's the *framing* goes to show to you that they absolutely, completely want it to be, and want to sell intellectual slavery, as far as they can get it.
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Lykso
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •refraction
in reply to Lykso • • •Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)
in reply to refraction • • •anarchists are communists, at least the anarchists who take the name from the first international, from which it was used to describe those who did not believe in Marx's idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a temporary continuation of the state apparatus
refraction
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸) • • •Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)
in reply to refraction • • •@elexia @lykso
I agree it's a simplification, but I also have issues with those who try to take away the historical context of anarchism, such as to describe vague and inconsistent relationships with the state and authority overall
ancaps and "lifestyle anarchists" come to mind
in my opinion all anarchists are communists, otherwise their use of the term anarchism is highly suspect - I certainly would like to know why they think their position is significantly different to an ancom
Lykso
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸) • • •@amici @elexia I definitely tend to think of myself as some form of small-c "communist" under which many positions may fall, including anarchist ones.
I recognize that there are people who appropriate the term "anarchist" without understanding the self-contradictory nature of their position, most notably ancaps.
But again, I need to read more.
Violet Madder
in reply to Lykso • • •Small C communism was the word originally, anarchism came a bit later-- I think after the split at the 1st International, where Marx ran off in a more authoritarian direction just like Bakunin worried he would.
Preston Maness ☭
in reply to Lykso • • •Jan Antoš
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •@janantos @lykso
Sheesh.
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On Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism
Margaret Killjoy (Birds Before the Storm)John Mierau
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Karel P Kerezman
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Jenniferplusplus
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •The closest they've ever come to a consistent definition of intelligence is something that can do economically valuable work.
Under that definition, what he's proposing is that you would rent the ability to do work, at all, from him. And that is in keeping with the ai/vc set's stated goals and past actions.
Matt Hall
in reply to Jenniferplusplus • • •@jenniferplusplus
Yeah, I think I'm in pretty strong agreement with this.
That what's being 'sold' is 'work' not 'intelligence'. It's not _thinking_ about a problem it's _iterating_ until it's RNG kicks out a good-enough solution. An endless parade of, "How 'bout this one, boss? 😃"
Intelligence isn't manifested in 'work'.
The choice of the word 'intelligence' is a deliberate mislabeling of what they would _like_ to be selling.
@cwebber
Meg
in reply to Jenniferplusplus • • •@jenniferplusplus yes! This is a thing I keep coming back to in how I feel about what's going on. The effort here is to build the ultimate "rent a shovel" service where the entire economy is dependent on an oligopoly of cloud providers to functionally do work.
I can live with a lot of things I don't like, but that's basically anathema to me.
gotofritz
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Solarbird
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •non-X-hosted copy of the video
#dystopian #AI #SamAltman #evil #intelligence
Kumar McMillan
in reply to Solarbird • • •@moira nah, they’re just high on Pied Piper VC money. I would be shocked if AI ever achieves utility status. It’s not a conduit like the internet. It’s not essential for survival in any way.
After the dust settles and everyone gives up on their stupid chatbots, AI will just exist as another tool for niche endeavors like software development, bioinformatics, medical research, and a few others that don’t require much creativity.
Violet Madder
in reply to Kumar McMillan • • •@kumarvibe @moira
It's not just "AI" he's talking about-- but computer power in general, in and of itself.
The hardware has been getting pushed in that direction for a while now. They only want us to have little terminals, which reach through their surveillance gates to access CPUs in their cloud.
Kumar McMillan
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •It is likely that I am using a different definition. 🙄
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in reply to Michael Wyman • • •@mwyman @jalefkowit grok is this true?
it isn't?
I'm sorry i didn't mean it Grok i was just asking
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •now might be a good time to support your local library.
while you've still got one.
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."
–Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •La mère tume
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bituur esztreym
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •i&i say: metaphysical- historical- & materially speaking, Altman just pronounced his own death sentence & OpenAI's & the whole TESCREAL TechBroism's death sentence.
they & this must die, the sooner the better, & will eventually.
this is the clearest Writing On The Wall one can get at this stage.
#AI #AIism #TESCREAL #TechBroism #DeathSentence
#WritingOnTheWall
(i&i humbly speak so as a poet & a conscious being)
e.g. Karp's last one is a mere confirmation:
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pouet.chapril.orgJon
Unknown parent • • •Interesting. I don’t think it’s vague at all. But I’m not trying to change your mind, I was just agreeing with Christine and didn’t untag you
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