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It's a nice rant that I think will become more common until everyone burns out and one important realization dawns upon them: the corporations doing these things don't really care about your plight, suffering, etc. You can write thousands of books using this kind of tongue-in-cheek-but-really-angry language, and they'll just laugh it off. Felix Reisenberg will make a new post about something he's doing with Claude, Boris will make a tweet and everyone will rush to turn it into LLM-generated images so they can post on their LinkedIn for their bosses to measure their engagement KPIs, and we'll forget about the rants.

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So if you are suggesting that life is now meaningless at status quo, it suggests that life will find new meaning....perhaps it will come in the form of a realisation that if corporations are in no ones interest, perhaps the better life is the one fighting against meaninglessness through our own redefinitions of noble pursuits...perhaps the most noble pursuit will become war against companies and executives in a post-modern religious crusade to reclaim some purpose in ones life. Perhaps murder is not a problem when you murder companies

That's the point - why are we doing this?

Of all the things we could be doing, why are we doing this?

Is it collective mental illness? Economic hysteria? A cult of virtual personality?

It's simultaneously irrational, obsessive, ecologically and politically catastrophic, and all-consuming - none of which are good things.

It's the same process that has been running - creation of complexity as a dissipative structure - but now with even less friction. Some say we'll transcend, I think we're spiraling into the language-navel of cartesian dualist logical positivist insanity.

I love the dissipative structure framing. It's the only logical explanation for all of this.

Datacenters in space are visionary -- they are maximally energy rate dense and they expand the area of energy absorption. Might be 100 years too early but that is where we are headed, after we turn all of the available biosphere of earth into computronium, that is.

The only superior technology left would be von Neumann probes.

Yep. Here's a fun follow-up, and where I got that idea.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8

> That's the point - why are we doing this?

> Of all the things we could be doing, why are we doing this?

Money. Capitalism. It's all a fucking grift. Always has been.

If you thought AI was going to usher in a post scarcity golden age of infinite wealth where all disease, hunger, want and inequality are solved and everyone gets to live their lives purely for pleasure and intellectual pursuit, where the Eschaton is in their Heaven and all is right in the world, and humanity spreads out amongst the stars as beings of transcendent posthuman machine intellect or some shit you read in a sci-fi book then congratulations, you're the mark.

What if the rants slowly transition into violence?

"Data center death threats."[1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/data-center-backlash...

That is highly, highly unlikely to happen.

When, not if...

I don't think this essay was written to appeal to the emotions of Sam Altman.

Why the hell would I want or expect a corporation to care about my plight?

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