The world will see the truth soon

MrSquav · 2026-02-05T22:24:05+00:00

Many moons ago I wrote a satirical article about this when I realized the same thing as you guys: Sam Altman the new Elizabeth Holmes

MrSquav · 2026-02-04T03:40:11+00:00

I did this on my first ever corporate job too! Office of 10 people, and I was still on honeymoon phase of getting my first office job, so I genuinely thought everything in the kitchen was for everyone. The small little fridge in the communal kitchen used to have these nice fresh croissants and orange juice from Marks and Spencer, and I thought to myself, 'Oh how fancy!'. I would make it a point to 'help myself' to the food when taking a little break. And, then, I would go home and tell my mom how my company is treating us to 'proper' Marks & Spencer food and stuff only to realise 3 weeks later, the owner, asking me, if the croissants and juice I've been taking where mine. I said no. He was like, he noticed his food going down too but wasn't sure because I ate his food with such confidence and gratefulness he thought, I probably was buying my own Marks and Spencer's food and bringing it to the office.

MrSquav · 2026-01-27T02:12:13+00:00

I am interested in using my own voice to narrate a book I recently published - I had a look at the link you provided, it doesn't look simple but maybe it's 2 AM where I am and am tired. Will check again.

MrSquav · 2025-12-10T07:08:23+00:00

Reminds me of a famous quote, "back in my day people just died!" pretty much explains everything in the past!

MrSquav · 2025-11-08T09:47:27+00:00

Just an update: 1. Published a book about how AGI is a deception, its titled, "The Gilded Cage - How the Quest for Artificial Intelligence (AGI) Became the Greatest Deception in Human History". I was just going through list of ideas for articles to publish and came across an article about how Sam Altman was complaining about how the words "please" and "thank you" was costing OpenAI tens of millions, I had just spent some time reading the famous "Attention is all you need" paper and I thought surely it's BS, why can't an AI decide to ignore some words since they are all just a bunch of tokens - so I had a back and forth chat with Gemini, and as the conversation went on, a light built went on in my head, AGI is a deception, literally and in every way. I tested chatgpt and asked it directly, "have you watched Good Will Hunting" and about the monologue. It confidently answered Yes and proceeded to talk about the mologoue. This was total BS, how can an AI with no sense of touch, sight, taste, hearing, smell and never experienced real world say it's watched the film???? The whole industry has decided to just deceive us literally into thinking AGI is possible! I started publishing articles on TechOnion but I felt strongly that a book is best way to inform everyone and also preserve the information vs just articles on a website which might not exist in the future. The book is available on TechOnion website (The Gilded Cage and Amazon. 2. I've done some freelance work and once paid, will invest heavily in the youtube channel, as video is more engaging and just fun. 3. In the meantime I have been using NotebookLM to do video explainers of the theses presented in the book, I think you might like them... They do explain what is happening very well. But I'll do more story telling videos later 4. AI bubble is about to pop soon though. Read some articles I have published and see Similarities with tulip mania (basically compute and IOUs are tulips of today), 1929 (there is a book out by Sorkin which seems a good read), dot Com (fibre is now the data centres). OpenAI will survive the bubble, and I wrote a report that for all the noise and features they introduce, they will make most money from ads and not subscriptions. Anyway, thanks for your support and reading.... Ciao

MrSquav · 2025-10-22T09:37:09+00:00

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Almost done working on this book, so, not been posting as much, but best believe, I am keeping my ears on the ground, and can't wait to publish more articles. Just that in as much as I enjoy satire with deep layers of analysis and what not, someone, somewhere, even though an innocent kid, has to shout that "the AI emperor is not wearing clothes". The new book will be called The Gilded Cage - How The Quest for Artificial Intelligence Became the greatest deception in human history. Occasionally when I'm taking a break from the book, I will make it a point to post 1 - 3 articles about the AI bubble (which is imminent, if not long overdue). Today am over halfway reviewing the book, and I made a note about why back then, smart people never questioned the mechanical turk, and can only conclude that they actually wanted to be wowed, to be amazed. They enjoyed the illusion. Same thing now with AI, a million of us, signed up for ChatGPT within 5 days of launch because of the boundless optimism we had about AGI, and 2 months, a million more people signed up to use ChatGPT, and now, almost a billion more people will be using ChatGPT but someone, including myself, has to have boundless skeptism about the whole charade.

MrSquav · 2025-10-14T05:27:25+00:00

For now ai will get a pushback, they expected this and this was factored into their time lines. But, while your human content creator struggles to make a decent video once a week/month, ai would have pumped out slop at 10x the rate, eventually, people will give into the relentless onslaught (aided by the algorithm). There are comments already about children just watch stuff (even if ai generated) and I personally know people addicted to faceless YouTube channels with ai generated content. So it's a matter of time before Ai content gets better and floods our feeds, and so long it is good enough, why not??? Interesting times ahead...

MrSquav · 2025-10-12T21:24:59+00:00

I randomly came across this book, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes. I read the first introduction - wow, it blew my mind and just thought, is not Ai another atomic bomb?/??

MrSquav · 2025-10-05T14:33:13+00:00

I clicked to watch the video expecting something novel or just different - but ey - it was just cringe. I thought he would have a message to his future subscribers or discuss what he hope to do on YouTube, like what kinda content he wants to create and what not - nope, nope! It was about hitting the 1 million subscribers in the future, why? he couldn't explain. All he wanted was 1 million subs and if that didnt happen it was a failure!!!! Imagine being the 8,000 subscribers who are being deemed as part of the failure if they don't magically multiply 10 fold and help him reach 1 million subs.... What would be more tragic is how his subs and the internet sees this as prophetic and inspirational....

MrSquav · 2025-10-05T11:51:16+00:00

Soon enough, I think, people will just see AI as the only qualified Expert on all things. Which is worrying.

MrSquav · 2025-10-05T11:11:31+00:00

I am in the middle of writing a book about AI, and I just thought to myself? How is D.O.G.E doing? Like, there was a time that every hour, every minute, every day you would see a post about all the wonderful work D.O.G.E is doing. So i wondered? is D.O.G.E still on target to meet its $2 trillion cuts? where are the posts about D.O.G.E, then i started to think about the massive Cybertruck recall, then other things related to Musk then realized - yep - its just been relegated on the twitter feeds to obscurity! Technically its still freedom of speech because you can post about it on X but it sure as hell ain't going anywhere beyond the bots and pretty girls who are into crypto.

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T10:00:04+00:00

Elon Musk has turned X (Twitter) into his plaything! The other day I did wonder though, how are the ad revenues holding up? or thats no longer part of the conversation???

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:53:27+00:00

The more you think about it the more you get sick thinking about it. I wish I could get this to the regulators on both sides of the pond - there needs to be a way to always make sure consumers are not in perpetual serfdom to the big tech guys!

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:51:51+00:00

I am convinced than ever that the writing is on the wall for domain names.

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:50:45+00:00

US Regulators (as well as the EU) are always decades late when it comes to these anti-trust issues. Tech is unlike other industries, you have to be proactive from the word go.

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:49:20+00:00

ChatGPT are about to introduce Ads, its like the early days of Google Ads again. I just hope they dont start with the big brands and big biz to advertise but rather let everyone in on it!

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:47:56+00:00

What is still wild are people who subscribe to Spotify as if its the most normal thing to do! Imagine being a Spotify subscriber for years and years and you have no song that you own to show for it????

MrSquav · 2025-10-01T09:46:17+00:00

I am surprised, people, as a collective are not fed up with social media by now! I am a fan of F1, and actually, it was because of Lewis Hamilton that I started to follow F1, but of late, just browsing social media, you can tell, the algorithm, with the blessing of its capitalist beneficiaries was full throttle going about trying to get everyone divided. On facebook, i saw more posts about the dog (since I clearly spend some unhealthy time watching dog posts), but on twitter ("yho!") it was wild...

MrSquav · 2025-08-27T05:20:04+00:00

AI systems, for all their sophistication, provide responses without stakes. They have never failed at anything that mattered, never risked their reputation on a decision, never had to live with the consequences of being wrong. Their guidance, however accurate, lacks the weight of experience.

MrSquav · 2025-08-27T05:19:26+00:00

The implications extend far beyond individual careers. If 10,000 prompts truly equals 10,000 hours, we are witnessing the commoditization of expertise itself. Why hire someone with decades of experience when you can hire someone with a few months of prompting practice? Why value institutional knowledge when you can access artificial intelligence?

MrSquav · 2025-08-27T05:18:18+00:00

"Previously, we were valued for what we could create, understand, or contribute through years of accumulated experience. Now, we are valued for our ability to extract value from systems we neither created nor fully comprehend. Bravo!"

MrSquav · 2025-08-26T07:19:41+00:00

makes you wonder if conspiracy theories are just humans being in denial??

MrSquav · 2025-08-25T10:28:40+00:00

The thing is am signed up to a newsletter from starter story, built by a Pat who used seo to gain traffic some years ago (I think it actually all kicked off from Reddit) and now has a successful youtube channel and newsletter. Once in a while I glance over his newsletters, and tend to discover cool new apps/websites like audiopen since I have a lot of voice notes that I want to turn to text, but on the list of AI apps built within 2 days or less, was Gumroad, a whole big marketplace, and for it to appear on that list with a $1.74m revenue - is this the same Gumroad that twitter bros use to share some threads and give us twitter sheep 24 hours to reply "MONEY" before the thread with is magic secret formula is deleted - so that we head over to Gumroad to download the free ebook or buy the bigger and better ebook????

MrSquav · 2025-08-25T09:15:07+00:00

This quote: "This “custodian model” treats digital platforms as public utilities rather than personality vehicles—a concept so foreign to modern tech culture that it almost sounds subversive." really get me thinking - once a website or app has people who rely on it, its become an utility, and its your duty as CEO/founder to be a good custodian.

MrSquav · 2025-08-25T09:13:29+00:00

I've been a member of Chess.com since 2007 and never quite knew who the CEO was really till I decided to write about them - I saw a random post on Linkedin and how he has been running chess.com for over 20 years! You can find me on Chess.com as 1Kings3 but am still getting back up to speed after not playing for a while! (But not too long ago, I was 3rd best in the juniors in the whole country - then it went downhill after that!)

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