"Management" and the Mediterranean Slave Culture

For most of my adult life I've been working on "projects" of one kind or another. At work, I do tech projects. At home I do things like garden, or home improvements, or property "improvements". I organized several bicycle races over the years, which is actually a pretty big undertaking. One thing I learned is when there's a lot of "management" involved in a project, it will probably fail because the people couldn't do it in the first place--I only see that happen at corporate jobs. On the flip side, when there's no management required, the project is certain to succeed.

In those projects that were certain to succeed, everyone knew what they were doing. So the "management" involved was making a check list, then the team checked the items off, then the project was done.

The corporate idea that incompetent people can be "managed" to be productive seems like an idea from the never ending slave societies that extended back before the bronze age. This idea is the main idea of the current day neoliberal corporatocracies. I think it's incompatible with the northern european people's DNA. It's a shame they're all wasting their time and energy keeping these shit corporate systems running.

The technocrat society is the ultimate expression of that ancient slave culture. Build huge infrastructure to "manage" every aspect of life... Gross.

OpenAI wants Taxpayer Funding for their Hobby Project

Apparently there's not enough 401(k) and pension money to fund a bunch of GPUs and electricity to run chatbots, so tech industry parasites are asking for taxpayer funding. If they aren't funded to finish their hobby project, "china" might do it.

Unfortunately, I think the feds will throw money at these projects and accelerate dollar devaluation--to build chatbot datacenters.

Unlike the dotcom era, when investors threw money at pets.com, WorldCom and Global Crossing, lots of resources are needed to build out the infrastructure for AI data centers. In the dot com era, stonks could soar on a speculative future business where a company just sucked money up with big, but cheap in resource terms stuff, like selling pet toys online. To do that business, you just needed a few warehouses, a few servers and internet service, and mainly a bunch of employees to run it.

The AI model is society needs to build a bunch of expensive, resource intensive stuff to run a silicon valley bro corporation, mainly to feed some billionaire trash more money. It's utterly retarded. Multiple new power plants are needed just to run some dumb AI models, basically to replace some workers with a data center that's sucking up resources. It's very dumb.

"China" Competition

Recently, the tech industry trotted out the "China" bogeyman as justification for taxpayer funding of datacenters and other tech industry projects.

All the people who shipped jobs to India and China are now worried the US, which they have zero allegiance to and even despise and scorn, will "lose" some mythical race to China. Seems implausible. Also seems that generations of such business people are dumb asses that constantly make bad choices... so why slave away on their behalf?

The US corporation made endless terrible decisions the whole time I've been conscious, mainly because the people who actually run the country are delusional sickos. When the cold war ended, there was a real chance to bring the former Soviet Union into the western "liberal" system, however, the western liberal system ended at roughly the same time and shifted into central planning and endless warfare mode and neocons completely took over US war and economic planning.

The idea that there's some existential threat associated with China "winning" the non-existent AI contest is just some dumb talking point by tech industry grifter scumbags.

The tech industry is just meandering all over the place, not really providing a whole lot of value. A whole lot of the US economy turned into some kind of potemkin village scenario where people go to an office and turn a crank that poops out power point presentations because they work to keep the central banking system running and to help fund billionaire lifestyles rather than solve simple problems of their life or their community.

People frenetically "invest" in these crap corporations and barely even know anything about their home, or the geography of their immediate vicinity or their neighbors, etc...

 

The US Gov't is Full of Psychopathic Trash

Apparently, the Trump administration is plotting a war on Venezuela. I'm not sure what the pretext is. I guess they want oil? Who knows anymore. 

Israel is Full of Psychopath Trash

The Zionists jews are an Aum Shinrikyo style death cult. Footage of torture and rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers was leaked by, to her great credit, a member of the IDF Major General Yafit Tomer-Yerushalmi. Then Israeli citizens broke into the prison where it was happening, not to protest the horror of their nation raping and torturing prisoners, but instead to demand it continue!

I'm sure there are good people in Israel in spite of it being the site of endless horrors for thousands of years, however, it's clear the people who run that country are antinomian psychopaths or the most vile weirdos on Earth. The US government should not support Israel. It probably wouldn't if the government of the US wasn't a totally compromised pile of similarly shit people. 

Learned Helplessness and the School System

We recently watched Lethal Weapon (1987). That movie, like many of the TV shows and movies of that era, features saxophone in its theme music. The sax was relatively common in the pop music of that time as well. I ended up playing sax from middle school all the way through college. I only played in college because I had a scholarship. I was pretty much done with it by the end of high school.

The music program in my high school was really good, but I knew I didn't even want to be a professional musician, or even an amateur hobby musician, so it was kind of a waste of my time even though I was relatively good at it. When we were watching Lethal Weapon I had flashbacks to the "Solo and Ensemble" contest that were held every year.

Every year, musicians from local schools would travel to one of the schools in Northeast Ohio and play a solo or an ensemble piece. I did it every year I was in high school. It's not a contest in the sense that one person per category can "win", you just get a grade and maybe a ribbon or medal, I don't really remember the details clearly. I know, though that the best grade is a "1", and maybe the worst is a "4".

Anyway, I was thinking about how that experience was similar to much of the other school related things I did. The students jump through fairly arbitrary hoops and are "judged" by fairly arbitrary groups of adults. It's a great example of "gamified reality" in fact it's training to live in the game-ified reality world. It has nothing to do with real life. I began to understand the difference sometime during the senior year of high school. I went and took scholarship tests, auditions, interviews at various colleges that year... I was mostly done with the phony formalism by then. The absurdity of it all was really starting to sink in.

If you want to be a professional musician, you go out and play and try to get jobs. If you want to be an amateur musician that plays for fun, you just play. Maybe you put it on YouTube if you want an audience. There's nobody "judging" that you got all the notes right and giving you a meaningless grade. Many musicians that made millions of dollars performing really kind of suck from the solo/ensemble contest perspective, or maybe had no formal music training.

The reality of being a musician is the same as being an engineer, or a scientist, or really anything. The idea you need "credentials" is just part of the gamified reality world. Some of the real world training you'd need to be capable in surgery, dentistry, or whatever, would be difficult to obtain outside the institutions that are part of the system currently, but it's not fundamentally different than learning to be a master craftsman at carpentry or metal working or whatever.

The gamified world is 100% arbitrary and not real at all. The vast majority, I'll say almost all the formal training I received from pre-school through college had nothing to do with real life. That sort of training applies to almost every "civilized" person. You're trained to play the game that's run by psychopaths and inbred ruling class weirdos. People have been living that way for thousands of years.

It's noteworthy that the game world imposes on "real life" as much as possible and winnows it down to a minimal percentage of people's time and experience for adults and kids alike. If you were raised in "the real world" solving real world problems instead of being raised "in the game", the game world would be an incomprehensible waste of time and energy. The game participants would be seen as bumbling dopes and utter fools.

Inevitable Result of "Managing" the Economy

The main thing I learned in my adult life is nobody, including me, knows anything. A person can know a tiny handful of real actual facts about the world. Every other claim to "know" is a lie. People believe things, or have models of things in mind, but time and changing circumstances generally invalidate those models.

The economic and political system manufactures credentials and hierarchies of so called experts to help bolster an illusion that the twats and scumbags of the "ruling class" are capable of making decisions on behalf of hundreds of millions, even billions of people at a time. Nobody is. People are hardly capable of making decisions for their family. Many members of the ruling class have broken, failed families with drugged out kids; Joe Biden is a great example of that.

The systems, like the financial system, that have simple controls can be "managed" in the sense that something like the quantity of dollars in circulation can be set by simple policy adjustments. The outcomes from that control mechanism, though, are a completely different story. Some loose concept like "productivity" or GDP doesn't really measure anything substantive, especially as the focus of the economy changes. Lots of economic activity in the US today, for example, is makework, make believe nonsense, or is parasitic. Huge numbers of people are employed by industries like insurance or finance which don't make anything at all.

Currently, the company NVIDIA is "worth" about a quarter of the entire US GDP... That's stupid. The government and the financial industry went all in on "AI" and datacenters. At the same time, there's a pretty steady flow of news about how AI's actually not fit for purpose.

I think in a nutshell people confused the type of technological advancement that happened from the 1970s to about 2010 with how tech functions today. From the 70s to sometime in the 2000s, tech "advanced" because of Moore's law, basically. That is, CPUs and other integrated circuits got faster or more capabilities every year, plus the cost per chip inevitably declined. The number of applications could expand with each iteration.

People believe that "full self driving" is "inevitable" for that reason. Nope. It's not a problem that's solved with more transistors per unit area. Maybe it's an unsolvable problem. It's the same story with "AI" or human-like robots. Another important aspect of those applications is they don't seem economical. If it takes a data center to do some office worker job, it's nonsensical.

A more fundamental point is how long will mom and pop people in the western world allow the countries to be ruled by inbred trash families? People sit idly by while their future is decided for them by some inbred retard board of directors whose main competency is nepotism. It's pretty dumb.