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  • This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…

    It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…

    But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.

    Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.

    It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.

    Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.







  • However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

    It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…

    Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

    So to clarify, what’s good is:

    A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working

    Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

    An example of what is bad is:

    “Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

    Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.

    I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an unimportant archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.

    I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.



  • Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.

    They need the hard drives because they’re storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.

    Not even just the people we know we know, they’ll know who’s usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time…

    Like, “skynet” is useful because everyone knows the term.

    The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.

    Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?

    You think they’re above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?

    It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.



  • These companies are publicly traded…

    The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases.

    But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply.

    Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed

    As a bonus, the news that you’re overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn’t hurt your company it helps it.

    There’s no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price.

    That’s not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That’s a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.