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It is kinda concerning how few people actually remember the 2008 Recession and what precedent the US state solidified in its response. A key feature of neoliberal politics is the extraction of public capital through state subsidies and cronyist deal-making. These companies understand that bailouts are a genuine and secure route for capital injection should they sustain a consistent loss. Y'all think it's a coincidence all this coverage of AI company losses followed their realization that there is no way for the US to build up its infrastructure to effectively challenge Chinese AI capabilities?
This is the business model, it's why they're so open and vocal about AI sucking even though they depend on its speculative value and its why they've spent so much on collecting liquidation assets in hardware and real-estate despite the obvious inability to meet the infrastructure demands.
Oh I remember 2008 quite. I lost most of my teenage years to homelessness because economies collapsed due to America's capitalist bullshit.
During that time I had to struggle for food, had junkies threaten and attack my family, and nearly died shitting and puking blood due to contaminated water.
Right, you'd think that experience would make you more receptive to the suffering of others, but here you are.
For context, this person was defending the use of trans slurs recently because they didn't like that they'd have to call their porn that fetishizes trans women a different word. You're against capitalism, but apparently dont see a connection between it and its constructions of gender, sexuality, and systemic oppression.
"Defending the use of trans slurs"
He's talking about "futanari", a genre name.
I empathise with problems that are real. Not problems that exist because people want to find problems with something that isn't. I hate people like that, because the kinds of people who would turn something like that into a problem are the kind who don't know what problems are.
Did you cyber-stalk a guy to shame him publicly for his porn preferences? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If your "preference" is bigotry, you get what's comin to you.
This person harassed me previously because they didn't like that gooning wasn't more important than real life.
You're upset people are attracted to trans people. Bro, something is wrong with you.
Why are you having arguments online about peoples porn habits?!? GO OUTSIDE.
I don't think you can really bail OpenAI out tho. The bailout worked in 2008 because the government could just buy the 700 billion of "toxic assets" and the financial institutions would return to a self-sustaining state of affairs, like they had been before making a bunch of really risky bets on mortgages. If you gave OpenAI 700 billion they would burn it at an unfathomable rate and still lose money because their underlying business model isn't functional - they only lose money. OpenAI is the toxic asset here. A bailout of them would be more like if the government had paid all of the delinquent home-owners' mortgages for one month; Next month they would be unable to pay again.