The Three Horsemen and One Bikini of the Apocalypse

“Apocalypse cow? Apocalypse wow!” – The Tick (2001)

I love this joke like there’s no tomorrow.

  • I. Job Replacement.
  • The Multicultural West.
  • The Fiat Financial House of Cards.
  • Sydney Sweeny’s bikini.

Each of these, if dealt with on its own, presents a danger as great as being between Gavin Newsom and a camera. But it is likely something we could work through as a country peacefully. Heck, maybe even two of the three, though that’s difficult, and history has the receipts:

For example, when the United States was a nation, we worked through the Great Depression. The Great Depression was likely brought about at the fundamental level from the transformation of the nation from an agrarian society driven by horsepower to a manufacturing colossus driven by iron, steam, and electricity. Sort of if A.I. were cars and assembly line production, but covered in tasty Radium®.

If a radioactive spider makes Spiderman®, would a radioactive dog create Doberman®?

Of course there was a finance side of the Great Depression. It was egged on by a stock market mania, margin credit, and the optimism brought about by new technology. Stocks never go down, right? That creates a bumpy road for a bit. But, as we were a singular people, we got through it.

I mean, the single bloodiest war in human history counted as a bit of a bumpy road, right?

We also dealt with multi-cultural forces in America in our history.

  • First, the founders only allowed in Western Europeans,
  • Second by fighting, defeating, and corralling Indians (some of them are still sore about this),
  • And, finally, by blocking out many non-Western Europeans with the Immigration Act of 1924 since we already had the recipes for all their good food.

1924 was when we as a nation realized that we were getting too much “diversity” too quickly and saw that certain groups of foreigners couldn’t or wouldn’t assimilate and never be Americans. We dealt with that in a calm manner and got picky and sorted diversity like a bouncer at a cartel nightclub. We maintained (for a time) the basic ethnic makeup of the United States – we didn’t throw them out, but we made sure we’d outnumber them.

I wonder if he and his siblings were born apart?

We dealt with fiat currency in the wake of the Revolutionary War victory when the phrase “isn’t worth a Continental” referred to the money printing excesses that led to the Constitutional Convention and the Constitutional clause of “No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but cold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” The nation survived, though it did end up changing our form of government entirely.

Lincoln floated fake cash during the Civil War to pay for it, and that could arguably be said to have started “The Long Depression” – a hangover period from 1873-1896 as we vomited out all of that fiat money. The Long Depression was also exacerbated by the transition of the American manufacturing from craftsmen to big factories.

The establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank™ followed by Nixon ignoring the clear intent of that clause in 1971 led to the crack-up we see today. Money, gold and silver, has been replaced by cash which is too expensive to print – we can just use ones and zeroes.

I’ve written about all of these three separately, and for the most part, we as a nation were able to make it through, but it’s important that we realize that we’re dealing with all three of these leading to a crisis right now when we are observably no longer a nation.

The ICE agent in Los Angeles needs National Guard and Marine protection for their anxiety, I heard on the news. Something about his panic attacks.

The first is A.I. It has already been a steamroller that has eliminated tens of thousands of jobs. I would expect that soon enough it will be hundreds of thousands. Recently, I called up my bank to do some banking. The transaction wasn’t unique, it probably happens thousands of times a day. The person I was talking to, “Mitch” had a perfect Midwestern accent. What tipped me off was that “Mitch” didn’t connect the reason for the error to the resolution. “Mitch” transferred me to “Anna” because he wasn’t authorized to grant a request.

“Anna” had, of course, the thickest Indian accent – the kind that is so poorly pronounced that it is nearly unintelligible if fast. Her actual name was probably something like Ananneedanothasylabble-Ganish-Prajeeta. At that moment that the smart Midwestern dude transfers the call to a barely verbal woman in Ramamamadingpoopabad, I realized that Mitch was an A.I.

As an anon mentioned on my last post on A.I., “Think about all of the Indian scammers out there today . . . Now think about what happens if AI wipes out most of the call center and coding jobs causing most of India’s 1.3 billion people to be out of work. It’s going to get ugly.” He had a point. A.I. is going to make it too expensive to pay Indians pennies a day just to steal money from old ladies. This is India’s worst nightmare.

I always wondered how you got down from an elephant, then Pa Wilder told me that you get down from a goose.

This scenario requires no Artificial Superintelligence. This requires only the application of existing capabilities. Said differently: ChatGPT 4.0® already has an I.Q. greater than three-quarters of the Subcontinent.

This has implications, but match it with the house of cards that is the world financial system. That thing was already strained tighter than Syndey Sweeney’s bikini holding in the all the printed money flooding in from the United States and the world. A country like India, unable to feed all the Indians, will collapse. No jobs. No prospects of jobs.

Though the research for tonight was fun.

But it will be, perhaps, worst in the West. On top of the economic dislocation of the A.I. Revolution, on top of the piles of fake money, we are not even a people.

The latest riots in L.A. have proven that out. Most of the “immigrants” that have come to “enrich” us have actually come to replace us. That’s their goal. You can watch on the news the Pakistanis fighting the Indians over which of them has the best claim to London. You can watch young men of military age strutting in Los Angeles with the flags of foreign countries like a U.N. parade, but somehow worse. You can read posts on X® or even Reddit©: they are not here to assimilate – they are here to conquer and take over.

This adds the final layer of instability required to ensure that the United States and the whole of the West is facing the direst crisis since the threats to Europe that were ended at the Battle of Tours in 732, or the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

This level of crisis is graver than any the West has faced in over 340 years, if not greater. Whatever comes out of this will be different.

Thankfully, we still have all the tasty Radium™ you can eat!

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

31 thoughts on “The Three Horsemen and One Bikini of the Apocalypse”

  1. > For example, when the United States was a nation, we worked through the Great Depression. The Great Depression was likely brought about at the fundamental level from the transformation of the nation from an agrarian society driven by horsepower to a manufacturing colossus driven by iron, steam, and electricity.

    No. The Great Depression was caused by government doing official counterfeiting, which signaled to start new projects, then those new projects failed because printing currency doesn’t create any resources with which to do those projects. See https://mises.org/mises-daily/great-depression

    The only way to prosperity is libertarian policies, that conclusion is not in doubt. The fact that most humans are communists consumed by envy and hire police to prevent other humans from competing with them and winning is a separate, unrelated problem.

    There will be no jobs in India and everyone will starve? Farming is 1) a job, and 2) produces food.

    2. It really was more than that – but the Fed certainly didn’t help.

      Hopefully Indians can farm.

      1. The trick is to make crops faster than you make people.

        Long before AI, there was great game in Basic circa 1978 called “Hammurabi” which made this clear in about 5 minutes’ of play.

        India couldn’t figure it out with or without a computer until about 1980.
        China and Africa still haven’t figured it out.

  2. It has already been a steamroller that has eliminated 10,000s of thousands of jobs. I would expect that soon enough it will be 100,000s of thousands.

    Maybe the mathematical notation is not quite clear.

  3. Dang, I’m going to have to move my PM from the safe to the fridge to make sure I have “cold and silver coin”.

  5. So, Jugdish will be unemployed. Guess he’ll be cannon fodder for their war with the Pakistanis. As for Indian call centers…

    My VISA got phished two months ago. Issued by a large regional, HQ in Raleigh. Both calls were answered by a normal American, so things were resolved promptly and properly. Hopefully this is a harbinger, but I’m not betting on it. My take? AI will be a dud in the long term. Law Of Diminishing Marginal Returns kicks in.

    Seriously, those people in the Streets of LA and elsewhere don’t have the social cohesion or work skills that can function in a high tech economy. Perhaps that’s TPTB plan. Balkanize the US in the process. Kill off 7/8th of the population.

    1. I think Indian (phone) call centers are already on the decline. My last few calls have gone to the Philippines and/or Puerto Rico. One rep I talked to commented that a lot of customers were complaining about the Indian reps which is why that company had moved their call center.

      Just for fun, when I get a call from Indian phone scammers, I will adopt an Indian name/accent and see how they react. It throws them off initially, and I’ve had more than one ask me if I was a “fucking Indian?” When I say “yes, I am, just like you and why are you trying to scam a fellow countryman?,” they then try to argue that they aren’t Indian even though their accent is very thick (and I’ve worked around enough Indians to recognize it). It’s weird how much loathing they seem to have for their own kind.
      J-Bird

  6. “I watched a documentary about Sydney Sweeney in a bikini”
    Didn’t your wife ask you why you were wearing it?

  7. Hordes of people from the Indian subincontinent flooding to Europe is the plot of the Camp of the Saints, which is looking more and more like a history book written before the event.

  10. “ChatGPT 4.0® already has an I.Q. greater than three-quarters of the Subcontinent.”

    False.
    1) ChatGPT has no I.Q. whatsoever.
    2) ChatGPT only sounds smarter than three-quarters of the subcontinent. It cannot, for but one example, unscrew a jar of peanut butter and make a PBJ. So it’s dumber than a six-year old.
    3) Even were the statement true, it would form one of the top entries in the Compendium of True But Pointless Facts.
    It’s problematic on the Subcontinent, but not so much here.
    4) The bar for ‘three-quarters of the Subcontinent” is too low to matter. Like 75-IQ low.
    5) It isn’t going to bite anyone here until it gets to sounding smarter than three-quarters of newsreaders. That’s up around 85.
    6) It can’t fix an air conditioner or change a transmission. Hell, it can’t even flip burgers, clean a hotel room, or pick fruit. Thus, nobody who works for a living – even wetbacks – is in danger of being ousted by ChatGPT.
    7) It also can’t actually think at all, so it isn’t even a danger to anyone who thinks for a living.
    8) ChatGpt is to endangering peoples’ employment what Rich Little’s impressions were to Jimmy Stewart’s career.
    I.e. sometimes cute, but mainly just a pimple on an appendix.

    So if your job involves making bad art, misunderstanding people in voicemail Hell, or mimicing stupid people, ChatGPT’s threat is a thing.
    If you have gainful employment, ChatGPT isn’t low-crawling up the driveway at 2 AM to buttf**k you out of a paycheck. And it won’t be doing that anytime in the next century either. What it’s overwhelmingly useful for, is as a technological version of gluing a quarter to the sidewalk, to occupy and delay stupid people from coming in the door.

    And when times get tough, it can’t dig a well, purify water, plant a garden, or pretty much any useful thing.
    And it does even less in a grid-down situation.
    Short of being an anchor at ABCNNBCBS, ChatGPT is nearly the most worthless thing ever devised by the mind of man. Other than the guy who installs turn signals on BMWs and Benzes.

    Change my mind.
    Please show all work.

      1. Noted.
        You’ll hopefully understand if I don’t see the unemployment of nearly 800 code writers in NW Fruitloopia as the harbinger of global apocalypse?
        That’d be the 40% of 2000 Microsoft employees in WA mentioned in the article, most of them after 18-19 years, in an article that notes that 70% of Microsoft’s code is still not written by AI.

        (You get that when they end a movie, or cancel a TV show, like they’ve done 100 times a year for 90+ years in this town, that’s the same loss of jobs locally? And that Hollywood is yet still right where you left it, 105 years later? Washington state will get over the loss of 800 jobs. Especially since they only had 40 years’ warning this day would come. Most people call that much notice “a career”.)

        Wait…so now all those bugs are being created by computers instead of people?
        O, the humanity!
        If AI programming is as good as AI searches and AI art, Windows 12 will be an abacus and a chalkboard.

        This is besides the fact that programming was buggy whips four decades ago. It’s why I was retroactively ecstatic to have dropped computer science as a major five decades ago, before I wasted six years of college to get a four-year degree, and then wasted half my life in an ultimately dead-end career.

        So now all those Indian programmers that put Bill and Mort out of work in the late 1980s have themselves been made obsolete, saving Microsoft 12 million rupees/year (that’d be 400 megatons in dry metric, or 4 million parsecs in avoirdupois)?

        https://i.imgur.com/JmvfoE4.jpg

        BTW, that movie (featuring a white guy in brownface playing an Indian programmer) was from 1986. 39 years ago! Stevie Wonder saw this coming.

        We put a lot of wagon wheel makers and whaling sailors out of work once too.
        So once AI takes out programming as a career field, in another 60 years, where to next?
        Ass-tastic screenplays?
        Media propaganda?
        You mean Hollyweird fucktards and liberals at the TV station will have to learn how to fix busses and dig ditches, and actually contribute something functional to society??
        Like pretty much all of humanity for 7000 years before the printing press?
        O, the horror.

        AI could eat it’s way around the globe twenty times over, and affect Average Joe and his gainful employment less than a Marx Brothers’ punchline.

        When it puts two million public school teachers and university professors out of work, and parents can homeschool kids with their own AI curriculum from K-Ph.D., with the communism edited out, like should have been the case for forty years and counting, please let me know. I have the party invitations all printed, and I just need to fill in the date.

        If all of AI took the biggest dump it could on humanity, it wouldn’t amount to a fecal pile most people couldn’t step over on any day on a sidewalk in San Franshitsco.

        Inflation and exploding amounts of fiatbux printing are a real thing, coming at us like a freight train.
        AI is one bug shitting on a semi’s windshield by comparison.
        Unless you were a software engineer who thought you were indispensable to Bill Gates’ galactic empire.
        News flash, code monkeys: You’re not Darth Vader.
        And while we’re up, who invented AI?
        Oh yeah, another code monkey.

        https://i.imgur.com/JmvfoE4.jpg

          1. The nightmare is knowing you’re right about inflation and printing fiatbux three shifts a day for two decades.
            AI is to that as Iran is to the US Air Force.

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