From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:50:55 -0500   
   c186282  wrote:   
      
   > Oh, and SOMETHING better than LLM 'AI' is decidedly needed, QUICK.   
   > The energy/resource curve for those things is just insane.   
      
   Define "needed." Absolutely *none* of this shenaniganry has been needed   
   by *anyone* save for the brainless ghouls in the C-suite who fantasize   
   about being able to obsolete knowledge workers the way they devastated   
   skilled labor via industrial automation & offshoring in the late 20th/   
   early 21st century.   
      
   But they're not gonna *get* that unless and until someone "cracks" true   
   artificial intelligence (what the tech-fantasists call "AGI.") And they   
   aren't gonna get *that* any time soon; they're not even looking for it,   
   because they're know-nothings who don't understand a thing about the   
   tech they're pumping the money firehose into and are perfectly happy to   
   be swindled by a career liar who looks good on the teevee and makes   
   soothing noises about how glorified Markov chains are *so* the Future   
   Of Everything Forever and *absolutely* gonna replace all their pesky   
   white-collar workers Real Soon Now.   
      
   Which, on top of being a farce and the harbinger of a global financial   
   disaster, is ironically enough choking out any *real* research into   
   machine learning and artificial intelligence, because all the money is   
   going into taking dead-end tech and doing *as much of it as possible*   
   in the hopes that this will magically make it not dead-end tech.   
      
   What's *needed* is for the bubble to burst as quickly and decisively as   
   possible, so that we don't spend another three years exhausting every   
   last bit of our financial, industrial, and energy resources on gorram   
   *chatbots.*   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)