AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.
Is there more to it than "What if we finally replace all those pesky workers with machines*" or is that it?
*Machines include people working the server farms in Malaysia.
That’s why the bosses like it, but the people in charge of making this technology and selling it to them are true believers in an actual millenarian cult, end of the world theology and all
Yeah - they aren't too worried about the end of the world part because as the elect they intend to be raptured^Wtransported to Mars. (Sorry, got a bit confused about which theology for a moment.)
