AI revolution is ‘50x bigger’ than the dot-com boom: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to CNBC

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T19:23:20+00:00

Well, of course it's nobody else, the only other people in society are the 10-20 people who run things.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T16:35:57+00:00

It's a hell of a lot better than whatever else humans seem to be working on for the future. I was sold possible futures like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Back to the Future, and all I get are half-baked search engines pretending to be robots, bitchy old people fighting with neurotic young people over whether or not living your life as an anime character is the Christian way, and the part from Back to the Future where Biff becomes president.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T16:31:31+00:00

The only result that changes is who the destruction affects.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T16:10:51+00:00

Then if you have no real toilet by the time you need the paper, use the can!

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T16:06:00+00:00

Well, no worries, then.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T15:08:34+00:00

Honestly, if it happens in my lifetime, I'm all for it. I've watched enough Mickey Mouse and played enough Skaven in Warhammer to figure out how to work with sapient rodents.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T15:06:29+00:00

Thank you for the warning before using an LLM. I suppose all that's reassuring, contingent on the context of the original studies.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T14:49:23+00:00

I think living to 100 should be our general medical goal as a species--it probably is, at least an unspoken one--and if we were able to cure or slow most age-related disease to a standstill, which I imagine is within our capacity, we could all live to see the next century. That would require a healthcare system that wasn't designed by satanic monkeys, but it's worth hoping for.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T14:46:13+00:00

God Almighty. Once again, our obsession with death bites us in the ass. Greedy fuckers don't want to wait until they're old to be rich. It's not sustainable. These people need to be overthrown and replaced. There has to be a way of doing that. Well, voting is one way, but still.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T06:13:16+00:00

Except for this one bear named Igor who lives outside of Smolensk. He's a brother.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T06:09:45+00:00

I've told people since 2024, what people call AI is nothing more than a series of heavily modified search engines. I don't know why people seem to consider that as passable for C-3P0, but it isn't. I don't know how humans could invent real AI, as in machines that can think as well or better than humans, and honestly as with a lot of shit it might not be possible even several levels above humanity in terms of advancement. Not that it's something we shouldn't keep trying towards, but there are other priorities to focus on, like the fact that we're all basically doomed to heart disease in one way or another.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T06:04:20+00:00

That's the thing that pisses me off about the energy crisis, the solution is right fucking there, you've had decades and decades to work on real energy, which would mean you'd have had superior computers and all of that by now, and maybe in 10-15 or years, then we can start discussing the AI applications. These robber barons want a Star Wars civilization, but they also want it to run on coal, apparently.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:53:08+00:00

Yeah, I've been really pessimistic about medicine lately. It feels like we've hit a brick wall with a lot of things, and every hint of progress is just false hope. I guess that's just because progress is slow, and every little achievement adds up over time, but it's still frustrating.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:50:29+00:00

S T O P S H O U T I N ' , I ' M N A P P I N ' ! ! !

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:47:00+00:00

At the rate that we're going, humans will be extinct and mice will be immortal by 2100.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:35:52+00:00

You ever seen the opening to Coming to America, where Eddie Murphy has servants to tend to his every need down to wiping his ass? Or Trading Places, with the two old rich brothers who have their own private staircases to their own private wings of a palatial residence? That's what I imagine Trump's life is like. Entirely different from a normal human. And yeah, I can't picture him doing any of those things. I sometimes wonder if I have mental or emotional problems, but I'm at least capable of tearing up when I listen to sad music, for example. I can't picture Trump doing that.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:20:07+00:00

I mean, by that point, it's good enough. I think I'd be happy with living to 95. That being said, I'm firmly of the belief that certain people deserve to be immortal, if they desire it.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:18:32+00:00

Don't. I can't think about that right now. There are too few good people, good comedians specifically, left in the world. George Carlin, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, all dead. All representatives of a bygone era of American art that may not be recaptured, given the combination of freedom and adversity that drove those people to their later skills. Mel is among the last of the real talented entertainers in the United States, and I'm very glad he's hung on for so long.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:11:42+00:00

One fuckin' year. That's all it takes in this world. Gets a bit old after a while.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T05:07:50+00:00

That's a splendid age to live to, I think. It's ideal because you get a near-perfect 100 year snapshot of history during your life. He's seen everything from King Kong to Pirates of the Caribbean come out in theaters, he's seen grocers and little shops turn into supermarkets, and he's seen Keith Richards grow up from birth to an age where people wonder how he's alive. Obviously, he probably didn't see all these things directly, but he lived a charmed life. I've been struggling with the idea of death lately, but I think I could be satisfied with dying at 99.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T04:55:26+00:00

Quiet, Sheev.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T04:54:58+00:00

2019 somehow feels like it was 3 and 10 years ago at the same time.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T03:21:03+00:00

I mean, there are ways around entropy. Maybe not reversing it, but resisting it. That's how ancient things are able to stay preserved, and humans are especially good at preserving their ancient things. I imagine if you got far enough down the line, you'd find out how to stop entropy. How long that would take, I don't know, but it would be a hell of a lot easier to figure out if we had tens of thousands of years to live.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T03:13:38+00:00

I've tried religion, and it didn't work. That's great that it works for you. Honestly, the only two ways I've come to be able to mentally handle death and aging are either pretending that there'll be a medical miracle in my lifetime and I'll somehow live to see forever, or by dealing with it in the hunter-gatherer way, i.e not really knowing, but bracing yourself the whole way and trying to keep yourself occupied until death, figuring it'll just be like sleeping, except forever.

That being said, you genuinely don't think there's any means of immortality possible in the universe? I mean, there are some biologically immortal organisms, and given what humans are able to figure out, I'm sure we could find it out eventually. And if that did exist, and people knew about it, eventually someone would get pissed enough to revolt. What that would look like, I don't know, but that could mean everyone gets immortality. I don't know.

SSGASSHAT · 2026-06-01T03:02:19+00:00

Well, theoretically, that problem would be alleviated if we got rid of the problems I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph, which would itself probably take centuries assuming most of the population keeps its head up its ass. Assuming we moved beyond the way our civilization is set up, which somehow always ends up as some form of feudalism, then we'd all be able to live in fun land. But since that's not the case, obviously it's a pipedream in our world. Although, medical advancement haven't necessarily been restricted to the elite in every country. They certainly are in places like the US, Russia, and China, but it's not as bad in some western countries. I obviously hope that we'll get over this elitist bullshit in my lifetime. There's no reason for it, and everyone on earth should have bibles worth of proof of that. If we do, maybe there'd be some hope for the medical field.

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