We Don’t Know the Real State of Tech Advancement
This is extremely important to understand.
We do NOT know the full scope of what VCs are building. ChatGPT is a fun AI application, and a deeply troubling one, but it also lags way behind the cutting edge of what they are able to do.
We have zero visibility into the “bleeding edge” of these technologies. What we see as consumers can be lightyears in the past of their cutting edge.
When it comes to AI, we, as a public, as a GLOBAL public, we have no fucking idea how far they have gotten, what technical leaps and achievements they have been able to achieve, nor to which goals and markets those align with.
When it comes to the venture capital build out of weapons — via investments in drone startups, autonomous military vehicles, militarized submarines and battlefield AI — we actually have no fucking idea how deadly their arsenal really is. What capabilities they have. Nothing.
When it comes to the Metaverse — most people think that the Metaverse is a flop and therefore don’t even think it exists or is coming. They don’t even know the state of the commercially available hardware already out, much less have any fucking idea what the deepest darkest most advanced version they have looks like. They have technology that we will not see for years. Even then the technology will continue to advance and advance ahead of us.
When it comes to the new age of anti-aging technology — we have no idea what is already available to the people at the very top of tech. All we have to go on, is the appearances of our tech billionaires, who all look exactly the same as they did 10 years ago. Larry Ellison is still a dreamboat. Even my hated enemy, Marc Andreessen, is looking young, fit and glowing.
Which makes me definitely worried about where they are with that shit. Also please drop the skin care routine. Traditionally, this type of man ages like shit. Working like dogs and then there’s the stress, for those of them who experience that range of emotion. Decades of too little sleep, very dangerous, bad for you. You’re gonna see heart problems and premature aging. The rich foods that these people like to eat are high cholesterol, ortolan, human flesh, etc. Ellison has spent years on the open ocean, sailing magnificent sailboats. Lots of sun exposure. And yet! They are suspiciously healthful. (Except Sam Altman, who always looks a little green around the gills).
How long are the doctors telling them they could live? How long do they WANT to live?
Please write.
We know -solely- what they CHOOSE to release to the public, carefully crafted products, marketing and market manipulation. What we hear about the state of tech is coming through a thick veil of PR, marketing, legal teams, psyops, and social media manipulation, compartmentalization, venture capital, regulatory requirements… to the point that the truth is totally obscured.
We are relying on *their* fucking websites and their press releases and their interviews with the press they own, to reflect an accurate picture of what is being built out by bloodthirsty sadistic fascist billionaires. What we know of their weapons deployments comes right from the horse’s mouth. I, for one, would like the actual TRUTH of how far along our VC military is.
One of the greatest challenges in building technology, is not just what you can get the hardware or software to do, but figuring out how to make it commercially available or available to the enterprise or the consumer market, at scale. Not only do you have to have the technology, but you have to be able to mass produce it, you have to make it cheap enough while still being able to make money, you have to productize it broadly for a mass market, you have to market it, you have to install it in companies all over the world, you have to support anywhere from millions to billions of people using that product. To get to that point, the technology needs an entire support and testing infrastructure, marketing and business teams, hardware innovation which is often the most punishing part of the process, and basically just this giant apparatus that is delivering the technology.
A biggest barrier to technology innovation is distribution. ChatGPT is a PORTION of the capabilities they have — we know that by looking at their entire portfolio — and it has been productized to support, as of now, 100 million users, and it is certainly designed to scale to many more. Getting a technology into viable production mode, is a very different proposition than say, the cutting edge of the technology while it is in the laboratory, being tested and worked on and worked out and researched by the core engineers, maybe even far away from a future implementation, and maybe even to only be implemented for certain people, or certain companies, and without those constraining factors of global distribution, you can offer a much more advanced version of the technology in a more… intimate setting.
Consider, it is a totally different ballgame to treat one multi-billionaire with a team of doctors to live for 20 extra years, than to have a globally viable product for everyone that will extend everyone’s life.
We are truly in the dark.
We cannot even rely on people working at these companies to give us any sort of clue, as they present within the industry setting itself, their research or findings or progress and what have you. Not even in the form of whistleblowing, which is prohibitive because… even people inside of a company don’t know what the cutting edge of the tech is and what is ACTUALLY being worked on, at the highest levels of strategy.
Tech functions, across the board, using compartmentalization. This a war-time military strategy used to greatest effect, and perfected, in Project Manhattan. VCs idolize Oppenheimer, by the way. In Project Manhattan, there was only one person who actually saw the FULL picture: General Leslie R. Groves. And he architected the entire project, with absolute precision and care, specifically so that very few of the people working on the project, had any clue what they were building.
Tech is the same; Apple most notoriously uses compartmentalization as its fundamental operating structure, to contain leaks, to keep competitors and even investors in the dark, to prevent whistleblowing on surveillance practices, and so on. Within the tech company, only a very few people may know the ultimate visions of the company or have access to its most advanced technologies. Using a large outsourced workforce in Kenya to work on AI training in a piecemeal way, is one example of how compartmentalization functions. The actual OpenAI company, is a small group of extremely carefully selected scientists, researchers, engineers, etc. Yet large numbers of workers building it, are doing so in a vacuum of knowledge, and dislocated from the rest of the structure.
And even within that type of situation in a startup, you have the executives and VCs slicing and dicing the workers in such as way as to keep certain things extremely secret and to keep workers from having a full picture of what is going on.
More broadly, compartmentalization is used by venture capitalists on an industry-wide basis. Venture capitalists are putting together configurations of startups that will provide a key building block for a larger, very intentional program. In our case, that is the creation of a venture capital state. In order to see the full picture of what is going on, you need to look at hundreds and hundreds of startups. Within their own world and their own compartment, startup workers and the vast majority of the executives, do not see the full picture of what is happening in the industry.
I.e., most people in tech have no idea that what they are building is not just their little widget, but a contribution to the building of a fascist state of venture capital design that they are preparing to leave the country with.
Heavy!
The obsessive and religious focus on startups, is obscuring in and of itself. For the worker, the startup is the entire world as it is designed to be their work life, cultural life, social life and even love life; Marc Andreessen recently noting that one of the effects of having this “extended college” experience is that people date within the VC-architected startup environment. So startup workers get all that AND free pussy!!
There’s also the “heads down”, “on my grind” maxim that pervades the field; sadly, it ends up being pretty literal where everyone is so focused on the little career in front of them instead of what that career is adding up to when combined with 100,000 other people’s careers. This is part of a culture of secrecy, of open secrets, that pervades the industry.
No tech media exists that is worth a goddamn. Every single newly hatched tech critic is missing the ball by a mile, either stuck obsessing over implementation details, chasing clout or being pathologically unwilling to admit that these threats are both real and serious. All the critics from the last bubble are gone due to a systemic crackdown on industry dissent, so there isn’t even any knowledge that is getting passed down. Among pundits, I haven’t seen any evidence of a system-wide understanding of what is even happening on the most material basis.
VCs own a huge amount of the media anyhow; they are funding a whole new media ecosystem but guess what, it sure as fuck won’t be critiquing the tech industry. :)
On top of that, there is very, very little regulation in the Valley from outside forces. The government is lagging significantly behind and lacks the competency to even understand this scenario, or be relied upon to act on it. After all, tech funds a number of government interests and is in bed with lots of these folks. Tech also holds captive a huge degree of the American economy, so as we are seeing in crypto, there is a face-off going on where we see the government and regulators struggling to see or be effective in this rapidly-changing environment.
More inexcusable is that there is no internal function inside the computing FIELD, whatsoever, that involves actual investigations and material demands for transparency from the industry. There is no ethics board. There is no civic participation in the context of the industry. There is not an investigative body, much less one with any teeth. We have built NO infrastructure to counterweight or constrain the VC influence; that is why, free of regulation, free of transparency, free of morality and empathy, they move ahead at absolutely light speed.
My main point here is:
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TECHNOLOGY THEY ACTUALLY HAVE
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WEAPONS THEY ACTUALLY HAVE
WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW ADVANCED THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS
Now THAT is a gap that absolutely needs to be addressed. The implications are horrifying especially considering it suggests a pipeline of unknown horrors that is always in existence and always pumping.
What is in all of Elon’s factories? What is in the Anduril R&D lab? What is in the underground bunkers of all the tech billionaires? What is the ACTUAL level of capability we have achieved, in an engineering setting, at OpenAI? What is in the labs of their life extension technology startups? What is actually on all the land they have bought in places all over the world?
We don’t know.
But I promise you, we will find out eventually. When it’s too late.