This creature is no where near as visually appaling as Trump, Putin or Netanyahu.

what would you say is easier for a group of dissenters to set up: a robotized full assembly line (mass production, a major tool of capitalism) or get enough compute power to put together a reasonable open LLM model that can reverse engineer propriety softwares?

and make the user dependent on not learning reverse engineering

Apart from environmental damage and labor theft, skill atrophy is perhaps the only criticism of AI that has held up in the last 2-3 years. I would like to remind you that 4 years ago AI had already run out of "unique data" to train and 2 years ago AI had "reached its limit". So I would take many criticisms with a pinch of salt because they are usually very emotional not logical. Going back to the issue of atrophy you have to consider two cases:

1- A person who knew nothing about reverse engineering now can reverse engineer. In all honesty in %99 of such cases the person would probably not put in the required time and effort to be an expert reverse engineer if there was no AI, that takes a lot of will power and dedication. They would simply not be doing it. So in a sense this is a form of empowerment (with possibly not great end products). In fact if someone with a basic level of know how uses the AI correctly, they can get MUCH better at reverse engineering in a short amount of time then they could have by searching references online. It is hard to imagine how these two would balance to create a net positive or negative effect though. This applies to virtually any field that AI is good at. I think AI is fantastic at IT and by asking it to resolve something then asking it how it resolved it you can learnt a lot of commands and tools you never knew existed. It is up to you to make good use of it.

2- A person who can already reverse engineer uses AI all the time to do the job and loses the skill. The same said person could have also used AI to learn about things he does not know but if they instead just want to use the AI as fully automated code generators this is again saying more about the person than the AI. Usage of AI presents you with alternative routes some of which will atrophy your skills but this is due to laziness not due to design.

In the end software or reverse engineered stuff you get out of full automated AI code factories still suck. It needs a lot of human intervention to be reasonable and the larger the software is harder it likely is. But again this is something that actually might play against capitalism. In their greed many companies are trying to adopt the automated code factory approach (because then they can fire people and generate more revenue) but this is only sustainable if AI keeps improving and can actually come up with mostly bug-free software sometime in near future. Otherwise loss of skill and unmaintainable tangle of software will likely fuck everything up.

Lets not forget this gem from about 5 years ago

Musk said he would probably launch a humanoid robot prototype next year, which is designed to do 'boring, repetitious and dangerous work'.

I think even investors are more clever than him mainly because they likely have an army of advisors that are more analytical than, "wow this is so cool"

Elon is an idiot that barely thinks about any functionality. For him if something looks cool and scifi, it is a good enough reason to implement it (like the self hiding door handles).

25 YEARS???!! Fucking hell.

I wonder for how many of the magats, Russia was the big arch communist evil about a decade ago. They now seem to be quite ok with a president who seems to have lots of strings attached to Putin.

you forgot "steal 1 good idea to make billions then burn millions on your own 20 crappy ideas"

This is the only country where police probably really fear for their lives (not talking about the bullshit US police spew to get themselves out of trouble when they kill someone).

I think this time is different though. Previously it was working in concert with people who tried to keep the atrocities behind the curtains and pretended to slap facebook on the wrist when they bent the rules. So everything was somewhat concealed in a facade of a justice system that seemed to care. And tech companies played their part by pretending to care. That did slow things down for tech oligarchs to some extent. They had to navigate their way through the justice system to make sure they still didn't end up in a legal tangle.

Now Trump comes, he openly expresses the fact he doesn't give a single shit about any kind of law and is intent on ruling the country like a thug and distort the law for this purpose too. He gives a mandate to every tech company "support me and you can run rampant without even pretending to care about the law, or don't and perish because I will use the said law to completely destroy you". And I think none of us were surprised when every big tech kissed the ring because this was their wet dream.

Why wouldn't they, Suckerberg already bent the knee and kissed the ring. This was an investment by him and these rallies are reducing the value of his investment so he is doing all in his power to slow them down. This has been the identical behaviour of large corporations since world word II when they saluted Nazis because they thought Nazis were going to win.

The best answer is to reduce/stop your usage of websites like facebook and shitter. Yeah I know there is still whatsapp, instagram, google services, android phones etc etc And as they acquire more and more of social media, it becomes hard for a particular individual to completely get off the services these companies provide. But you can pick your battles and atleast remove those which are not really essential to your day to day life.

He probably imagines the non-factual Sparta which was claimed to throw crippled infants down the cliff. That is why he gets such a hard on when thinking about Sparta.