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Richard Luthmann's avatar

Jordan Schachtel has Gates dead to rights. The formula never changes: declare catastrophe, insult the public’s judgment, demand a new bureaucracy, praise Beijing, punish innovation, and call submission “preparedness.” AI has risks, but it also promises medical breakthroughs, cheaper legal help, better diagnostics, smarter farming, wider education, and tools regular people could never afford before. Gates looks at that explosion of possibility and sees another chance to install managers over it. No thanks. The COVID aristocrats already wrecked enough lives. They do not get custody of the future because they bought a microphone and learned new panic words.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

I’m just curious to see if this will get any legs. We all know Gates is powerful as we saw during Covid, but curious if his power still reigns supreme.

He’s taken a hit since the divorce and Epstein connections, so this could be nothing… but this is something to take note off and if any actually policies or laws …from our “representatives” comfort.

Gates does have lobbying power so definitely will be interested to see if any Congress folk start tossing bills forward here— that Gates and his crew wrote of course: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/understanding-the-ruling-class-of

JulieBelzeski's avatar

Apparently Gates of Hell Bill is behind in the AI race and needs Uncle Sam to give him some leverage. Either that, or Billy Man Boobs knows that since he is universally reviled, if he suggests this everyone will immediately refuse it and then government WON’T step in and ban AI and that’s what he actually wants…🤔. Either way, I remain convinced the world is better off if he could be exported to another planet.

Richard's avatar

Elon is ready to do the last.

JulieBelzeski's avatar

Well he should get on with it; what’s he waiting for???😅😅

Charles Clemens's avatar

The starships are ready to launch; but it is questionable whether they have the power to lift Gates' ego and his underage sex partners to Mars.

May's avatar

Surely Gates has a “vaccine “ to recommend for the AI problems.

Mikey boy's avatar

He does of course !!!!!! But it's deadly for humans

Jay G's avatar

Agree, don't listen to Gates, but listen to others who say that our world will end unless we stop AI

Mikey boy's avatar

Really?!!! Have you seen the AI forces outside your door.??? Big mistake as they come in under your door 😱😱😱😰😰😰

Julie Hemmings's avatar

Gates not only paid no price, he openly gloated about how much money he made from the very profitable vaccines! He made much more off vaccines than Microsoft. The guy is a monster.

reality speaks's avatar

I would never listen to Gates. The only thing Gates is about his himself and his wealth. Gates stole everything that became parts of windows he was ruthless in requiring every computer manufacturer to pre install Microsoft crap to get access to windows as the operating system. The regulators were asleep or bought off as usual. There are only two ways to the wealth of Gates it’s either illegal or immoral Gates took both paths. He is worried that the current folks in charge of these AI companies will destroy his legacy of Microsoft (we can only hope). Now that I have trashed Gates I have no love for those running the AI companies they are all immoral as well and we will roe the day we allowed them to dominate our lives.

Mikey boy's avatar

Yes so very true in every way and succinctly and very well covered by Jordan, though likely lost on the vast majority!!!

albert venezio's avatar

Excellent! Thank you!

Charles Clemens's avatar

While I generally despise the four-eyed pedo, this essay gives me pause. Indeed, AI may be the 2026 pandemic, or it may lead humanity to its next logical step in evolution - namely, returning future generations to a life of mindless hedonism or it might turn Homo Sapiens into the legendary Eloi of H.G. Wells' imagination.

Already, we are seeing a large chunk of humanity deciding that thinking is too hard and it is best to let AI answer all our questions about life, politics, and history.

Social Media, of course, has a big role into turning us into mindless cattle. I recently read that the average American spends 99 minutes per day. So YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram can be included with the electronic toys that are turning our brains to jelly.

Jason's avatar

Let us not forget that Bill Gates is an alarmist and that even his wife couldn't take it anymore, but let us also bear in mind that "AI" is somewhat of a scam, too. It is like the old chess playing machine the Turk, there is often a wizard behind a curtain, for example when a Waymo taxi doesn't know what to do, it asks a kid in the Philippines with an xBox or Commodore 64 to help it out, and that kid makes minimum wage. What a revolution.

Fern Barkalow, PhD's avatar

Amen to that, Jordan. It is indeed time to make the very smart choice to stop listening to Bill Gates. Thank you for this.

Rory Spenthart's avatar

Follow Bill's $$. AI is leaving MS in the dust. Bill wants time to catch up. And the power to declare slop enrollments an existential necessity for all Americans.

Richard's avatar

Gates (and the CCP) aside, the industry needs to do something to answer the grass roots opposition to data centers. If I understand the tech correctly, this would involve isolating the centers from the grid and the aquifers and/or paying for increased capacity. Putting the centers in rural areas where the land is cheap makes sense to the developers but should be paired with industry sponsored training so the next generation will stay put with good jobs instead of moving to cities.

Charles Clemens's avatar

When the Colorado River runs dry, legislators and governors from Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and California may snap out of their alcohol-and-cocaine fantasies and think about making decisions.

Joe Petralia's avatar

TOTALLY AGREE, JUST STOP POSTIBG THIS SHIT HEAD... WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Did AI write his screed?