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The AI Demon Hunting Young Professionals
from Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492 · #492
4 min
Tim describes AI, personified as a demon released by Sam Altman, coming for upwardly-mobile young professionals in fintech and startups who used to travel and eat expensive steaks, predicting their fall into homelessness and addiction.
- Tim explains why he calls it the AI demon rather than a god—he prefers the world before it, when people had jobs and owned things.
- The nothing from NeverEnding Story as metaphor: it blows through towns leaving everything marked 'for lease.'
- Globalization displaced manufacturing in the Rust Belt, leaving people working at Kroger with kids on meth or heroin.
- Tim on the dismissal of displaced workers: called them white trash and Nazis, watched them die without caring.
- Well-meaning white liberals in Portland and Los Angeles have a death fetish, getting off on watching homeless people stroke out on the streets.
- The same people with the death fetish are now the ones the AI is hunting—the young professionals and Oracle workers.
- Savannah worked at Oracle; now she's putting needles in her arm and turning tricks just to survive.
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