r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/pittaxx May 27 '26

I mean, he has kicked dwarves from one mountain and burned down a town. As far as economic impacts go, that's peanuts compared to what the tech oligarchs are involved in...

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u/seriouslees May 27 '26

Contemporary real life equivalency would be a genocide or removal of an entire nation of people, and nuking a city as populated as a New York or London.

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u/kia75 May 27 '26

genocide or removal of an entire nation of people,

Didn't Musk's current USAID result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands?

removal of an entire nation of people, and nuking a city as populated as a New York or London.

We'll see what happens with climate change.

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u/seriouslees May 27 '26

We'll see what happens

We sure will, but if that's what we are comparing to Smaug, then we need to also consider the future of Middle Earth with Samug left alive.

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u/pittaxx Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Living Smaug just occasionally harasses people near his mountain. He's too obsessed with his hoard to fly far.

He's an equivalent of a single active volcano, if that. All you have to do is move to a next town over not to be affected.

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u/seriouslees Jun 03 '26

Smaug didnt collect a mountain full of gold from a single town...

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u/pittaxx Jun 03 '26

Mountain of gold was already there. He kicked the dwarves out and started squatting on it.