American NSF threatened with mass layoffs
American NSF threatened with mass layoffs
The response of the American government to Chinese tech advancement is... threatening to layoff critical scientific funding? Lol, lmao, even.
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Our new technocracy kind of shooting itself in the foot here since it needs that steady flow of publicly funded research to do, well, basically anything.
Are they really confident a bunch of human experimentation zones with failsons working in labs supervised by chatGPT is going to give them immortality juice?
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Are they really confident a bunch of human experimentation zones with failsons working in labs supervised by chatGPT is going to give them immortality juice?
Absolutely. They are high on their own propaganda.
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Yep. The elites are bored and want to divvy up the US into privately-owned technocracies powered by AI. Billionaires would sooner eat each other than cede power to another, so their resolution was a coalition to bring down world governments, so they may rule as monarchs of their own little serfdoms.
All of their plans depend on enormous masses of people taking up their ideological cause and doing all the work of dismantling entire nations for them, because the elites fundamentally cannot fathom a world in which they want to do something and there isn’t an entire class of people already in the process of making it happen without need of directions of how to accomplish it.
The elites are so insulated by the rule of capitalism and the legacy of empires that they feel comfortable in tearing down the states that have endured centuries of popular opposition and whose institutions made their extravagant wealth automatic. Elites have just enough power and influence to inflict global war and death on the rest of us, but not enough to escape true justice in the form of a bullet shot clean through their skulls, Weegee style.
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they're gonna privatize it or strip it for parts
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100% just gonna do direct payments to private companies although this also feels like the conservatives in the UK who just dgaf about anything and want feudalism again
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i hope these private company scientists just grift the shit out of this and leave China to actually advance humankind
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I don't think big tech wants a new batch of technologies out of the public sector; some other companies will figure out how to bring those to market, and the current big tech companies will become the next RCA, ITT, Kodak, and if they're lucky, IBM.
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