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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China
do nothing
win
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All US knows how to do is lose war, do lay off, ban they Chinese phone apps, eat hot chip and lie
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“We’re a culture all about hard work!” Says the culture that seeks to take away as many jobs as possible.
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“Let the private sector handle everything…wait, why are we losing to China?”
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Putting everything up for sale to highest bidder and forgetting that China has all the money
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Damn are the pharmaceutical companies not freaking out over the looming lack of commons to enclose?
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yeah, no joke. the existing system was already deeply captured by capital formations and was very effective at getting careerist weirdos to run labs on a shoestring budget and indoctrinate their lab workers to work for shit pay in service to the greater, public good.
turning it all over to VC and private equity is just gonna elevate fraudaters and create bubbles, but there won't be anything even worth throwing intellectual property barriers around.
I guess this really is capital formations going to war with each other over the carcass of a dying empire, and the tech bros are chosing predatory strategies instead of parasitic ones hope to gorge themselves so fast that they'll be able to dictate terms once everything has been eaten.
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Love living at the end of history
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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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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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Why do they even need funding? Everybody knows corporations spend all their profit on R&D it's like the basis of capitalism right? I mean, R&D and a tiny bit of stock buybacks
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