no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 10, 2025
Musk and Trump are systematically defanging the institutions from where the professional managerial class operates (universities, government bureaucracies, corporate HR). That’s good. The Dem base needs to be broken apart.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 12, 2025
The AI Race reminds me of both American postwar eras.
In this case, Vance’s speech at the Paris AI Summit reminds me of the Space Race with the USSR with China and DeepSeek echoing the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
“Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump Administration was adopting an aggressive, America First approach to the race to dominate all the building blocks of artificial intelligence, and warned Europeans to dismantle regulations and get aboard with Washington.
On his first foreign trip since taking office, Mr. Vance used his opening address at an A.I. summit meeting hosted by France and India to describe his vision of a coming era of American technological domination. Europe, he said, would be forced to chose between using American-designed and manufactured technology or siding with authoritarian competitors — a not-very-veiled reference to China — who would exploit the technology to their detriment.
“The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful A.I. systems are built in the U.S. with American design and manufactured chips,” he said, quickly adding that “just because we are the leader doesn’t mean we want to or need to go it alone.” …”
Meanwhile, Elon’s bid to acquire Open AI and crush his rival Sam Altman would make Commodore Vanderbilt proud. It is a throwback to the age of the railroads.
“Elon Musk has offered to buy the operating assets of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, Axios has learned from multiple sources, in a move that could turn the burgeoning AI industry on its head.
Why it matters: Musk is putting pressure on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who’s trying to restructure the company by separating its nonprofit board control from its for-profit business. …”
Altman isn’t surrendering to Musk who shit on the Stargate announcement.
“OpenAI is not for sale — and particularly not to Elon Musk, CEO Sam Altman told Axios on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris.
Why it matters: Altman’s comments come one day after his increasingly heated rival Musk made a shock $97.4 billion offer for OpenAI’s assets, potentially changing the narrative around the technology’s future.
What he’s saying: “There’s been like versions of Elon trying to, you know, somehow take control of OpenAI for a long time, so, it’s like, okay, here’s this week’s episode,” Altman told Axios. …”
In related news, John Ganz believes the tech bros are working on the AI superintelligence, which I like to call the Wizard of Oz, as their atomic bomb to drop on the professional managerial class.
“Elon Musk looks longingly at the authoritarian techniques of Chinese tech capitalists who brutally work their engineers from morning to night. They allied with the online mob, their bastard offspring. Now they’d sack the politically unreliable managerial layer. And they’d would work furiously on the development of their Manhattan Project, their atomic bomb to drop on the professional-managerial class and replace them permanently with robots. They’d also pump up their bribe system for the lumpen elements: cryptocurrency. They’ve taken their model from the C-Suite to Capital Hill and are trying to do the Twitter-to-X model in the federal government. …”
Imagine a world where AI, for example, has replaced the teachers unions and other progressive-leaning professionals like lawyers who overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party.
You shouldn’t be giddy about this.
“Imagine a world where AI, for example, has replaced the teachers unions and other progressive-leaning professionals like lawyers who overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party.”
Imagine that world but the AI is now a progressive thought logic bomb that dropps thought nukes on the real thought world on behalf of the the Democratic Party.
The problem with the Professional Managerial Class, wasn’t that it was Professional or Managerial or a Class, but that it became the embodiment of an indoctrinated anti-White retarded philosophy.
Where we failed was not in resisting the PMCs, but in allowing the PMCs to be corrupted into the monstrous class it has became.
If we couldn’t resist the corruption of the PMC model, which required a decades long march thru various institutions while the GOP and Normie America partied, there is no way we will resist the creation of a Leftwing AI tyrant.
While the Right as usual partied in celebration of the creation of the Railroads (and the Robber Baron Class which became Leftist), then partied over the creation of Nationalist regulation of Robber Barons (and the PMC which became Leftist), it now parties over the subordination of the PMC by the AI (Which will become Lord Sauron Leftist).
The Left has already firmly emplacement itself in AI. It has thousands of individuals inside AI reprogramming it for Woke talk, and formulating algorithms to control logic thought questions.
Hunter, this AI is not good. The world is changing. You can feel it. What once was will soon be lost and you may live to regret it and be one of the few to remember it. Humility brother Hunter. Be careful.
https://youtu.be/W0znpBHTmFw?si=cj1ZeUKmIJro4fdS
AI is a bad bad thing to remove safeguards from. Musk is a fool.
What good will come out of AI is yet to be seen, although I suspect the US government is antsy about it’s possible military uses. The spotlight on AI doesn’t address the massive loss of research leadership the US has experienced over the last 20 years. A December article at unz.com (https://www.unz.com/bhua/comparing-china-and-us-critical-future-technology-development/) cites a technology comparison done by an Australian think tank (ASPI). Their study is useful in that it compares 64 technologies on an ongoing basis, allowing for trend observation. In the years 2003 to 2007, the US led in 60 of the 64 technologies while China led in only 3. In the years 2018 to 2022, China led in 57 technologies while the US led in only 7. Couple that with the huge drop in manufacturing ability and it’s quite easy to see why China will dominate in the future.
Of course, it’s possible to turn things around, but I just don’t see it. I recall growing up during the 60’s space race and how science and engineering were portrayed favorably and pushed by high school counselors. I don’t agree with Vivek Ramaswamy that Americans are lazy. I do agree with him that there is no attempt to popularize science and engineering among our boys and young men. Couple that with the disastrous collapse of learning standards in the US schools. For that matter, I remember reading an article stating that the SAT given in the early 70’s (when I took it) had already been made easier compared to the one give in the 1950’s. In 2020, China had 3.57 million STEM graduates while the US had only 820,000.
One other consideration is that discoveries and innovation don’t just come out of labs with men in white coats. Discovery and innovation also come out of making “stuff”. Not only improvement but completely new technologies. In the US, we don’t make “stuff” anymore. We had a huge legacy going right up to the mid 90’s which started to get dismantled then during the Clinton presidency. Not only was manufacturing moved offshore but research and engineering departments in major corporations were reduced if not outright dissolved.
It could be turned around but the majority of people in the government are not engineers but lawyers and bean counters who have no idea how technological innovation is done. For them, a scientist or engineer is nothing more than a “resource” – that is, a resource like a pad of paper in the company office supply cabinet. What does it matter if that “resource” is located down the hall or across the globe in China? “Resources” are only money (salary & benefits) sinks. “Resources” don’t benefit from working in close proximity or team cohesiveness. I started working for one company in the late 80’s that impressed on its new employees that management considered employees as the company’s greatest asset. By the early 2000’s, that concept was no longer mentioned and we used to joke among ourselves that management now considers employees the company’s greatest liability.
I personally don’t see a turnaround, even if we are somehow able to lead in AI. The future will belong to China.
Also an important point in the overall AI discussion. As in so many other areas, the place we’re living in is NOT the America of the 1950s, or even the 1990s. It’s gone way downhill using all kinds of metrics. The real unseen destroyer was the takeover of public education by the teachers’ unions – totally controlled by the usual suspects and their toadies. I even remember a book written back in the late 1990s or early 2000s by a woman called Christina Summers entitled “The War on Boys” which documented the war being waged by teacher-union witches on kids. Being a polite conservative, she of course failed to tell the whole story. The war was (and is) on White boys only. That’s why I often repeat Vox Day’s completely truthful axiom: Home School or Die. Whatever Trump may turn out to be, don’t waste the time you’ve been given. It may be the last chance we have to survive.
Oh no! Leftists don’t get to put Karen in charge of censoring AI?!?! Does that mean that it will become common knowledge that the average IQ of blacks is 70?
That’s a surprising word of caution from AGB above. He’s at least 80% correct here. In the great Clown-Empire in which we reside, AI has been a massive grift involving top-tier grifters like Musk, Altman, et al – plus other clowns who inhabit the Google and Microshaft circus-tents. Lots of free money from the feds plus tons of additional OPM (other people’s money) from the Wall Street looters running that casino for billionaires. The OPM is your 401K, etc.
What China did was a brilliant move, like them or hate them. They released a completely open-source AI which actually performs slightly less crappy than Musk or Microshaft’s at a literal fraction of the cost – thus pointing out to any with eyes to see (even my single one) that the Golden Imperator AI the Magnificent is just another General Butt-Naked. Now a really smart white boy would see a real opportunity here. They have just handed you a tool which you can copy, modify and use against your enemies, or maybe design it for some genuinely helpful purpose like medicine, etc. and make a large pile of FU money which could be donated to HW to write full time. One could even use such a tool to create a version of archive.org which would not be subject to lawfare from the usual suspects (which is a rather amusing example of woketard cannibalism – as the archive.org man (Brewster Kahle) is a San Franshitsco woketard himself and those wanting to take him down the KN woketards running the publishing and music cartels.