Check out this Warren Buffett video. He talks about AI in terms of investing. If he is right, I think storage and RAM prices will come back down in price.
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Meh, you can find surveys saying what you want. But we need to be careful not to believe the only choices are a false dichotomy of straw man sides. Choice isnât whether to fully surrender our entire being and decisions to AI versus complete rejection of everything. There is a spectrum in between there involving regulation, transparency, and accountability.
Just Capital (2025) just found that 58% of the public believe Al will have a net positive impact on society. Corporate leaders (93%) and investors (80%) are even more optimistic.
Gallup (2025) found Nearly all Americans use Al products daily (search engines, GPS, spam filters) often without realizing it. Most favor safety rules and independent testing, not rejection.
Pewâs latest found Americans are cautious, sure, but 55% want more control over AI, not to ban it. Thatâs a far cry from âcase closed.â
If using AI means âsurrendering our future,â then we surrendered years ago when we let Google Maps tell us where to turn left.
The real story isnât rejection, itâs regulation. People want AI to be safe, transparent, and accountable, just like cars, medicine, or the internet, Let alone countless things that could be dangerous or beneficial. Democracies donât ban powerful tech outright; they govern it. So the debate isnât âAI or no AI,â itâs how we shape it.
Regardless, at this point it is virtually impossible to ban anyway. There are already countless free and open source models on decentralized networks that absolutely cannot be shut down or censored anymore. Prohibition will not solve anything, and there is a lot of good argument to make that it will only make it much much worse without as many positives. That is an extremely dangerous position to take right now IMO.
It would also be impossible to enforce that on other nation-states. It would totally devastate our country, Possibly indefinitely In comparison to the progress of our adversaries. Within a matter of years, we would likely shift from being considered. World leader developed Nation, to move much further toward the bottom of that developed nation list as others fill in the economic gaps among other things.
Now, Iâll admit weâre highly likely in an AI bubble. But that doesnât mean AI itself is worthless. The dot-com bubble didnât kill the internet, and the housing bubble didnât erase the value of real estate. It just means valuations are overheated and companies are burning cash faster than they can earn it (Itâs currently not net profitable).
Right now, AI firms are running the Uber playbook: lose money at scale, hope competitors collapse Or give up, then dominate the market. The difference is that this bubble is propped up by the most profitable companies in history, such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, who can afford to subsidize losses for years. And when that becomes unsustainable, theyâll lobby governments to bail them out in the name of ânational securityâ And not letting their adversaries leave them behind (This is historically a very effective narrative even when national security isnât really at risk, such as the race to the Moon and similar stuff that was only approved to have better public perception of progress than an adversary).
That makes this bubble harder to predict than past ones. Itâs global, itâs multi-sectoral, and itâs backed by corporate leviathans who can print money from other businesses. If it bursts, the fallout wonât just hit Silicon ValleyâŚitâll ripple through healthcare, finance, defense, and beyond⌠Probably the entire economy. Brutal, but also proof that AI isnât going away. The question isnât whether AI survives, itâs how we regulate and shape it before the bubble pops. But even if it does pop, it absolutely wonât disappear any more than the internet disappeared, or any more than real estate disappeared. AI is for sure here to stay. It literally canât be stopped anymore with all the open source stuff out there. I myself have a software company where we already just host our own local AI for free for us (actually several of them), and separately and a bonus allow people to use pretty much every open source and cloud AI model in existence, privately, (through openrouter) if they want. All HIPAA compliant, etc. For lots of various kinds of business purposes and needs. But the point is that, even if there is a full bubble burst, it wonât remove AI or hurt my company because we run our own and arenât dependent on them anyway.
Separately, run at least a dozen LLM models locally in my own house. Most of them with no outside.internet access. They can even control my smart home on the local network. I can have them analyze private data and documents completely locally. I have a few smaller models on my phone even.
If the major AI companies âburstâ it for sure wouldnât stop me using AI. 
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A bubble cycle economy is not humane. 
Itâs a profitable and practical method of shoving radical change down the throats of the governed
fast.
Let every âvisionaryâ spend a year as a common member of a sacked breadwinnerâs family. Let them live with no more power nor resources than they have, suffer the privations they endure.
A fair and reasonable request, I think. 
Will they still see for miles and miles?
I say, off with their (AI) heads 
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Your Beaver friends donât need any help from AI to take down trees or build a dam,
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No they donât and we donât either.
Thank good this year I havenât seen any activity on my property. I see them swim in front but havenât noticed any trees being chewed.
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Everyone can keep their heads. Even the beavers. 
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BTW, Iâm not suggesting our pal @carverofchoice is a visionary or a zealot â notwithstanding his extraordinary eyesight, insight and enthusiasm. 
My eyesight sucks. Average at best. I donât yet need glasses to drive, but I have astigmatism and frequently have to use magnification accessibility on my phone to read small text. Drives me crazy. Will almost definitely get some corrective surgery eventually when I have lots of disposable money. 
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Let me fix that for youâŚ
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I assumed he probably meant [something like] that, especially in the context of using the word visionary just before that, but it was fun to take him more literally and go slightly off topic.
I do try to work on my foresight nowadays. In the past I had problems with myopia and post-hoc analysis negatively impacting my life. Pushing more toward foresight and future consideration has been very beneficial. Not that Iâm not still subject to my share of cognitive biases, thinking errors, and logical fallacies, but I try. I have personally done evaluation exercises where I go through every one of them and give examples where I have used them in real life (especially recently) so I can try to recognize them in myself. It breaks your ego to overcome defense mechanisms and admit to yourself when you have personally used those things instead of just finding them in other people. I highly recommend it. Most peopleâs insecurity defense mechanisms wonât even let themselves do it.
Related to AI, Iâm in the process of creating a sort of AI âBoard of Directorsâ (advisors) comprising distinct âexpertsâ catered toward giving me analysis of this from different perspectives. You know, like have a board of directors that has a voice from a lawyer, various business experts, a devilâs advocate (to steelman opposing point of view, etc), strategist, conflict navigator, systems thinker, financial analyst, relationship sage, philosopher, analogist (explains through analogy or storytelling), a moderator agent (to chair the board with advanced instructions about how to run it), and even once director dedicated to analyzing the discussion for potential thinking errors, cognitive biases, & logical fallacies. Obviously this is just to help with perspective and insight from my life âboard of directorsâ but I ultimately Make my own decisions after analyzing different input, just as I would from a board of advisors.
This kind of thing alone is invaluable IMO. Thatâs not to say that I wonât use real people on a real or figurative board of directors/advisors when applicable or important, but the AI board still helps me work out thoughts and consider things Iâd overlook and ask better more thought out questions to be better prepared, etc. Itâs not for everyone, but it keeps me sharp related to my business and personal life.
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On a AI sidenote:
âTime magazine names âArchitects of AIâ Person of the Year 2025â
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I think thatâs brilliant!!! 
Itâs like tapping into virtual alter egos without being stigmatized with DID. 
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Heh, yes, in a way, But with the added benefit that I get to DESIGN everything about them: their domain, style (communication, decision, conflict style, etc), role, expertise, mandates, operational parameters, etc.
Itâs an ongoing project. In some cases I can potentially have some of them seeded with a library of data as a core knowledge base.
With DID you Donât necessarily always get to have full conscious cognitive design for everything and they often donât interact to cooperate with each other in an advisory role as theyâre often more temporally compartmentalized.
But now that you bring that up, I could see an interesting sci-fi movie or TV series where a person with a sort of neural link has an AI board of advisors in their head communicating with them. Sort of telepathically in this way. That would be very similar to your analogy of DID Sense to the person. It would kind of feel like they have multiple personalities within their head, even though they are mostly digital.
Actually, I guess I can think of at least one popular futuristic dystopian sci-fi series that already did something like this⌠But since it happens really deep into the story, it would be a spoiler to mention it.
Still, itâs an interesting idea that actually could become a reality with neural link chips In the coming decades.
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Please mention it with blur. 
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This could be another effect AI could have on construction.
âAI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projectsâ
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Interesting and thought provoking read
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