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AI prediction thread


               
2026 Jan 13, 9:57am   206 views  13 comments

by FortWayneHatesRealtors   follow (3)  

1 - I think AI is going to get massive government bailout and funding, it’s a bubble that costs way more than value it provides, but because entire AI is part of that control system DoD have been building, and salivating over that power, they’ll find ways to fund it. Trump will absolutely participate.

2 - AI is a system built to manipulate, right now it’s going through the “gain trust” phase. Once manipulation phase starts, society will fall under heavy government control. Its next step in government ran capitalism we are in.

3 - Very many jobs will be obsoleted by AI, and that will likely lead to either massive poverty or some UBI system.

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1   Patrick   2026 Jan 13, 6:27pm  

The physical half of the economy will remain.

Robots are not capable of construction, farming, repair work, etc. Not yet.
2   Glock-n-Load   2026 Jan 13, 6:56pm  

Patrick says


The physical half of the economy will remain.

Robots are not capable of construction, farming, repair work, etc. Not yet.

But if AI puts as many people out of careers as I’ve heard, those “physical” jobs will pay shit because there will be endless numbers of people competing for said jobs.
3   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 13, 6:59pm  

AI will be a partial bubble, like Google Glasses and self-driving cars.

There's entire channels in China dedicated to their self-driving car technology mishaps, like truckers having to get out and kick a self-driving vehicle to move through an intersection.
4   rocketjoe79   2026 Jan 13, 8:50pm  

The good thing is that if the bubble does break, we'll be left with power generation infrastructure that could be connected to the grid, increasing grid resilience. Proper place for AI is in space, or even better on the moon, which is a much better heat sink. Musk is already commenting on this. He's miles ahead of everyone, in every important future tech.
5   Patrick   2026 Jan 13, 8:57pm  

Moon also has essentially infinite solar power with no atmosphere and no day/night rotation.
6   Patrick   2026 Jan 13, 8:59pm  

Glock-n-Load says

those “physical” jobs will pay shit because there will be endless numbers of people competing for said jobs


If we can dislodge the tens of millions of criminal aliens, that will help.

But maybe there's also some other way to arrange the economy that could productively use all those people.
7   declarethecauses   2026 Jan 14, 4:42am  

Patrick says


Moon also has essentially infinite solar power with no atmosphere and no day/night rotation.
The moon does indeed have a day/night rotation, resulting the phases we see. Day lasts 2 weeks, and then night lasts 2 weeks.

AI assures me it wouldn’t be a good place for AI.
8   declarethecauses   2026 Jan 14, 5:54am  

FortWayne makes 3 good points.

I just retired after 40 years working as a programmer, starting at AT&T. Bell Labs in the 80s and 90s was a magical place for someone like me. Sadly, things changed.

I hated having to use AI these last few years. AI is interesting, frightening, and frustrating, all at the same time. It’s the proverbial genie released from the bottle; it ain’t going back. I say good luck with that.
9   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2026 Jan 14, 7:12am  

declarethecauses says

FortWayne makes 3 good points.

I just retired after 40 years working as a programmer, starting at AT&T. Bell Labs in the 80s and 90s was a magical place for someone like me. Sadly, things changed.

I hated having to use AI these last few years. AI is interesting, frightening, and frustrating, all at the same time. It’s the proverbial genie released from the bottle; it ain’t going back. I say good luck with that.


Welcome to retired club.
10   HeadSet   2026 Jan 14, 9:02am  

Patrick says

Moon also has essentially infinite solar power with no atmosphere and no day/night rotation.

Put away that wine. Being tidal locked with Earth does not mean the moon surface does not see day and night. When the Moon is between the Earth and sun, the "far side" gets daylight. When the Earth is between the Moon and the sun, the "near side" is lit, with gradations as the moon orbits Earth. Also, sometimes the whole Moon is in darkness when the Moon is completely in the Earth's shadow (lunar eclipse) or partially dark when partly in the shadow (phases like a crescent moon).
11   Patrick   2026 Jan 14, 10:05am  

OK, it's just a longer "day":


Each location on the Moon experiences ~14 Earth days of daylight followed by ~14 Earth days of night
12   stereotomy   2026 Jan 14, 1:45pm  

14 days of night presents a challenge for energy storage.

Then again, the moon's surface has lots of Helium-3 courtesy of the solar wind. The He3 + D -> He4 + P fusion reaction occurs at an order of magnitude lower temperature than D + T, and the released proton can be trapped magnetically to directly generate electricity and would create much less radioactive waste since there is no neutron bombardment of the reaction container.
13   floki   2026 Jan 14, 3:18pm  

That'll be some expensive IT support for broken drives and cables up there.

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