It could be a lot of things. Many events aren’t open directly to the public. Sometime they fill seats by giving them away or giving priority access to certain groups or events. You don’t generally have people walking up and buying ticket and even if you do it’s not always shared in placed the average American would know to look. Best case, These are poli-sci students that went because a professor told them to.

My general guess is that on top of what I said above, this is simply an establishment event in an establishment town and so the audience is likely mostly establishment insiders and not the general people.

Kinda hard with the zone always being flooded. Feels like we crammed 3 decades of history into the last 5 years, But I take your point.

yeah even just the comments here are pretty positive. fingers crossed.

ah don’t mind me. I understand the assignment. It just hurts less if you jokingly expect them to disappoint you. New blood is good.

I vaguely remember the same buzz around Jeffries. I don’t put a lot of stock in congress. I did my part to vote but now I imagine it’s just going to be 2 years of them doing corpo stuff. Though the joke was more that they’re just two old-ass white dudes that kinda look the same to me.

Oh god. Being in the city I forget that much of the state is Pennsyl-tucky. 47% is way too high. Mr. Rogers would be ashamed.

Don’t act like the primaries don’t have their own set of problems.

PA resident here.

We basically had to choose between Fetterman and a TV personality that essentially bought property to pretend to live here. It was never a good set of choices and while there were people being very vocal about Fetterman always being kinda sus, even before his stroke, We REALLY didn’t want OZ.

Personally, I’m constantly pissed-at and disappointed-by Fetterman, but at least he’s PA trash. not LA trash pretending. The bar is on the floor, but at least he’s our disappointment and that matters.

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Remember when they first made the change and all over social media you had the fake videos of people showing you how to drill into your phone because – “The jack is still there guys! promise”

You know…that’s fair. I can see Musk trying to take Meta. or Google.

It will happen. I was browsing this while logged out and can’t respond to the person I would like to because they’re invisible to me. The thing about bailouts is that they will likely go to the big dogs and not the actual AI companies. Microsoft, Meta, Google, NVIDIA, Amazon… They’ll get bailed out. OpenAI and Anthropic will get consumed/sold off. We’ll likely see a bidding war for their assets because while they are over valued, they are not without value, and since most of us believe all of this is a push is for cloud computing I would bet. The bubble pop will be consolidation and a push for more cloud-based saas infrastructure.

My opinion has been that all this AI bubble noise has basically just been the R&D phase of a larger rollout. I would be concerned with which company ends up with those assets because that will be a big indicator of future plans in the sector.

That’s right. I didn’t put the question in the search bar for you to tell me the answer. That question was the first shoveling of dirt in a 6 hour rabbit hole that I was fixing to explore.

That’s my suspicion, yes. We’re witnissing the slow theft of the personal computer.

I just posted this in the main comments, but I also think it loosely ties into saas and killing personal computing. This framing makes it seem like the technology will soon be on par with weapons of mass destruction and it’s not a big leap from “The AI will destroy humanity.” to “We can’t let people have the technology to run agents locally.” It’s about the stock price, yes, but it’s also the long game of removing the user from direct hardware access.

The end game has always been saas in one form or another. They’re calling it an AI buildout but it’s really the theft of computing. ‘Rogue AI Agents’ are the WMDs of this generation. (In the sense that they’re going to be using them as justification to do some bull shit.)

Recently, I’ve been thinking that this is more than just about the stock price. I think they’re playing this game of painting the AIs as super weapons as a justification to start regulating personal computing. If they maintain that these rogue AIs are as dangerous as Skynet, They’ll have the justification to outlaw local models, and to insure that people aren’t using local agents, they’ll further push cloud computing and saas.

The metrics for measuring our economic health haven’t been tied to the well being of the total population for a long time. The entire political system has been hiding behind wall-street growth for generations. Inflating that even with money magic. The moment we stepped off the gold standard we started playing a game of math and fantasy.

Our public education system.