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Is this a rant against investment capitalism and high-speed financial trading networks?

Or perhaps a screed decrying the shiny bouncing ball of blockchain-based cryptocurrency?

Possibly a takedown of the online pornography sector, which consumes a largish percentage of bandwith and data center power?

Maybe it's about LLMs, although they might end up going the way of compilers - mostly open source, only a few niche for-profit compilers still exist?

Oh wait - it's about the cell phones and tablets that everyone stares at all day instead of engaging in human social interaction and reading books?

Could it be that the problem isn't with the technology itself, but with how it's being used to manipulate and control people by the interests who currently control most people's access to the technology?

There might be something fundamentally wrong with a socioeconomic system based on investment capitalism and contolled by a few uber-wealthy oligarchs - something about it that inevitably leads to dystopian outcomes.



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