Bigger and More Expensive is Not Necessarily Better -DeepSeek Takes Over the “Frontier”

The US now lives in the era of short-term monetization research led by billionaires, instead of the long-term innovation paradigm led by our non-profit academic research institutions. VC-backed AI startups reflect this shift as the US loses its lead in almost all aspects of science and engineering to China.

Typical in empires that have reached their final phase of collapse, the so-called decadence phase followed by collapse, money accumulates in a few people and the middle class is obliterated, innovative research at the universities is chopped, domestic policies become militaristic, wars are waged on many other countries, and another country takes over as the lead state when the empire collapses. As billions are spent in the USA on AI companies that make a few new billionaires and makes exisitng billionaires richer, it doesn’t make great AI. Instead, a young Chinese computer scientist, Liang Wenfeng, with BS and MS degrees from the prestigious Zhejiang University in the great tech city of Hangzhou, in the province of Zhejiang, using thousands of dollars, not billions of dollars, developed an AI frontier platform, DeepSeek, that is as good as ChatGPT and 95% less expensive. And, it’s open source , what OpenAI was supposed to be until the greedy Sam Altman, a college dropout and Snake Oil Salesman, decided he wanted to be a billionaire and made OpenAI just more of the same. Little wonder the cofounder of OpenAI, Dr. John Schulman, PhD, who developed its technology, left OpenAI (Schulman talks about how AI convincingly makes things up, AKA, spews BS, here). Yes, the US is in the midst of a great AI Snake Oil boom. Both the AI CEOs and their AI platforms spew BS. And, yes, bullshit is an AI technical term. While AI is great, and I’ve personally worked on biological cybernetics much of my life, the snake oil, overhype and plutocratization is not.

The age of decadence and collapse in the USA is upon us. Capital, the output of US workers, is being used to fund the whims of US billionaires. Sam Altman uses the people’s capital to give more than a billion dollars to a startup to improve longevity. RetroBio is a company led by a guy who’s had 3 venture-backed startups. Start something, pump it, and dump it. Instead of capital flowing to serious scientists at nearby UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Stanford, the money flows to the short-term looking venture company, the longevity company de jour, promising you youth. Instead of buying the Blue Zones Cookbook and taking control of your health, they want to use irradiation and/or chemo to remove your bone marrow cells, and then replace the cells with genetically or epigentically (it’s not clear from their website what they’ll do; remember, Muskian hyperbole is short on specifics, but long on grandiose recycled sci-fi stories) reprogrammed bone marrow cells. Such procedures typically mean the patient is irradiated, resulting in long term toxicity that may include cognitive deficits, cataracts, pituitary dysfunction, gonadal failure, hypothyroidism, cardiac dysfunction, xerostomia, osteopenia, dental complications, chronic kidney disease and secondary malignancies. And once you’ve been irradiated into an unhealthy state and seek health care, the AI company in Tennessee, naviHealth, will analyze you with its algorithm (nH Predict) that is tuned to deny you any healthcare. So efficient is nH Predict, it denied more than 300,000 claims in a two-month period, which amounts to about 1.2 seconds for each physician-reviewed claim. Optum Health , part of United Health Group, Luigi’s favorite company, owns this AI company.

Once the billionaires have irradiated you and induced a 300 year long state of dementia in you, you’ll be dumb enough to jump on one of Elon Musk’s exploding Starships (7 so far; remember during the golden age of science and engineering in the USA when NASA was lead by a doctor of science and the Saturn project never had an exploding rocket and on mission #5 men were on the moon) for a ride to Mars. And don’t forget to have your blood tested to make sure you’re ready to go. Houstonian, daughter of an Enron executive, Elizabeth Holmes, another college dropout, has the best test for your blood with her Theranos start-up technology. AI physicians will then give you your prescription Alzheimer drugs for your trip to Mars. The irradiation you had at RetroBio will induce cognitive decline, and the drug is sure to help. The drug was “developed” by Vivek Ramaswamy at his Bermumda-based startup drug company, Roivant (ROI=return on investment), and made Vivek a multi-millionaire. Too bad it was all a scam. Once you’re on Mars, you’ll likely want to jump on Musk’s Hyperloop for a view of his vast colonization project, replete with Musk’s solar panel system, the best in the universe. Enjoy living to be 300 years old, stultified, and demented in your Mars cell. You’re living insel-Musk’s wet dream.

Please enjoy your billionaire led government, and, remember, don’t question authority and believe the hyperbole of a bunch of short-term thinking college dropouts. All will be well as you live to 300 years old in your cell on Mars counting your crypto meme coins and watching Nazi salutes on Twitter, the only media available on Mars, as Musk hangs-out in his compound with his 12 wives and 52 children, never having flown in a Starship. Sam Altman will say every year that AI will, in the next two years, do everything humans do, the RetroBio guy will be on his 100th startup, and Trump will still be President of what’s left of the USA.