Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 on Nostr: Correcting for inflation, by the end of 2026, we will have spent more on AI than we ...
Correcting for inflation, by the end of 2026, we will have spent more on AI than we spent building the entire Interstate Highway System and the transcontinental railroads (all four of them) combined.
At some point, society needs to be asking what the benefit-to-cost value is to all this, because we could just tax all this money from billionaires and do stuff with it that’s actually useful.
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