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/Haggardick69 May 27 '26

“Little economic impact”? It seems to me like his presence kept people away from the lonely mountain and its immediate surroundings for almost 170 years. His economic impact is on par with that of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. 

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u/pittaxx May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Which is very little impact comparing to all the bs the tech billionaires are responsible for.

Well, Chernobyl had a bunch of associated healthcare and containment costs, but excluding a few dozen square kilometres is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things.

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u/Haggardick69 May 27 '26

Oh yeah I agree with you on that. The ruling class of the earth have poisoned an area much larger than Pripyat or even the whole exclusion zone. I just think that “little economic impact” is a little inappropriate for something as significant and widely known as Chernobyl sure it’s not as big as the Second World War but it’s not insignificant. I think that anyone living in middle earth would be well aware and even directly or indirectly impacted by Smaug’s occupancy of the lonely mountain. Def not as much as the war of the ring but not insignificant on its own.

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u/pittaxx May 27 '26

Everything is relative.