@cstross

Here's an even worse scenario.

The "#AI" companies are saved by financial support from the Department Of War, and are repurposed into propaganda generators in the war to annex #Canada and #Greenland.

https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115280750853821749

Notice that #PeteHoekstra has already been pushing the line on Canadian telly that #Canada is an "anti-American" aggressor that started this.

And if the emergency meeting is about pulling staff from the Indo-Pacific closer to home …

#ElbowsUp #USPolitics

@cstross, what could possibly go wrong with that… 🙄

@cstross The other political shockwave the subprime crisis caused was a whole lot of rural and small town people lost their properties. Their mantra then was 'But we did everything right'. That resentment led directly to the Tea Party founding that eventually morphed into MAGA. What domestic political fallout will the AI crash bring?

@cstross A couple of the AI firms are chattering about pivots to using their datacenters for cryptocurrency (again; some of them pivoted into AI from that) and I’m not sure if that is better or worse than fossil fuels

@cstross If by "cynical" you mean "learned from the past, recognize the patterns, and recognize likely outcomes," yes.

@cstross That investors are behaving irrationally may be the first true thing Altman has said in very long time 🤣

@cstross

oh great, so we're going to get an opec trade war again or some shit?