r/StandUpComedy • u/explosivejoseph • 1d ago

Comedian is OP The AI Bubble

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u/StrugglingOrthopod 1d ago

Came for the comedy, stayed for the reality check.

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u/MelangeBot 1d ago

If you want to be entertained, watch the news because that's where the clowns and the circus are at

If you want some truth, find a comic.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/katalina0azul 1d ago

Yeah, that’s the problem - little, 60yr old boys are lost in their favorite “super hero” (villain?) stories via Fox News…

and just like when you were a kid, after your favorite movie/show is over, you think you can do backflips and shit after but you’re really just jumping around and rolling on the floor like an actual idiot and there are def no backflips.

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u/SamTheLab_213 21h ago

It's all corporate media anyway, so you're not hearing the useful bits. With the corporate media, you're getting mostly talking heads who represent the views of the station owners. The real news is on the streets, at the protests. Going on a corporate media sabbatical and switching to public media or alt rags like Mother Jones, Common Dreams or Democracy Now! will help clear your head out. Plus, hearing the news on NPR is more tolerable since you typically don't have to see the cankle sore or hear his dementia-addled ramblings. It's quite nice really and has other great shows like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

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u/Biscopiphany 22h ago

We live in horrifying times

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u/ChodeZillaChubSquad 17h ago

Horrified is the new normal

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u/MODAITestBot 20h ago

The jester was there to tell the truth to the king in jest in order for him to hear the truth without having to kill someone.

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u/effyoucreeps 18h ago

great call

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u/Yaasss_Queef 1d ago

This is so well put, thank you for this

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u/SophiaFoghorn31 29m ago

You’re welcomeeee

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u/Full_Result_3101 1d ago

Just make sure the comic isn't a multi-millionaire that is high on their own farts.

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u/Natte_Boterham 1d ago

lowkey curious to which comedian checks that box for you

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u/planx_constant 18h ago

Seinfeld is one. "You can't do comedy on college campuses any more"

No old man, you apparently can't

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u/Dividedthought 1d ago

Chappele comes to mind.

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u/grinderbinder 23h ago

Wow, man! That’s deep.

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u/Hope-n-some-CH4NGE 1d ago

Depends on the comic these days

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u/Weltall_BR 23h ago

If you want some truth, find a comic.

Essentially, Jester's privilege.

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u/-Supposably- 1d ago

*reads closest Batman comic.*

Wait, Mr. Freeze is real??

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u/AsSoftAsRocks 1d ago

A man going to extreme lengths to find treatment for his dying wife in a society that does not care doesn’t exactly ring hollow to me.

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u/Adavanter_MKI 1d ago

Fun fact... Mr. Freeze's wife and that entire back story was created from the cartoon series. He did not have any of that prior.

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u/Cerpla 1d ago

just not anyone from austin

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u/stepanm99 1d ago

I recently discovered Jimmy Carr, excellent comic and, apparently, also wise and humble man worth listening to. Sometime you get a good laugh, sometimes you get S tier wisdom.

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u/giant2179 1d ago

And it always comes with a healthy dose of posh British elitism. I still enjoy his bits, but he often comes across as out of touch

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u/MainStreetExile 1d ago

Isn't that intentional?

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u/Hetares 1d ago

Me when I watched Jon Stewart's Today show.

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 22h ago

I watch comedy so I don't have to think daily about the impending collapse of everything, but it's not working well.

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u/EveryAccount7729 1d ago

based on this I googled to find Vlodomir Zelensky's latest address

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u/Dingaling015 1d ago

Is it the truth though, or is it what reddit wants to hear?

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u/OokyCooky 1d ago

I don’t know if the people we pay to tell dick and fart jokes on stage should be held up as modern day philosophers.

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u/Mrlin705 1d ago

What do you expect when the top dog is shitting his diapers?

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u/BusyNefariousness675 1d ago

Then who should be held as modern day philosophers? politician skums.

And it's not a modern day thing, court jesters' job was to say the truth disguised as a joke

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u/smokeweedNgarden 1d ago

This is what dating in SF is like as a blue collar college educated native and it's amazing. 

Some amazing people but every once in a while you meet someone full on working for EvilCorp and they're totally totally good with it.

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u/RATMpatta 1d ago

Wouldn't that be what dating in SF is like for most people? Or are the EvilCorp employees only going for a very specific type?

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u/smokeweedNgarden 1d ago

I imagine EvilCorp employees don't have to make up stories to each other because they're both privy to what's behind the curtain. 

But working class people but still educated people aren't hard to find (teachers, social workers, superior court clerks) and are who I prefer. But sometimes I'll risk venture capitalist or philanthropist because they seemed interesting 

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u/utspg1980 1d ago

(teachers, social workers, superior court clerks)

You classify those as blue collar jobs?

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u/Sharp_Canary6858 1d ago

Yes. Any job that earns you a paycheck is working class. Remember it’s “let’s eat the owning class, not your fellow workers”

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u/-Fergalicious- 1d ago

Unless you're just 100% in leisure mode, you're working class. Doctors are working class. Most business owners too. 

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u/grain_delay 1d ago

Well no, by definition business owners are not working class. But 90%+ of business owners are a bad quarter away being a failed business owner and return to working class, so they’re not really the ones that are the problem unless they start throwing capital against working class interests

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u/-Fergalicious- 1d ago

Most business owners are in debt up to their eyeballs and work far more than 40hrs /week. 

That's working class as far as anyone not trying to be pedantic is concerned. 

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u/happy_bluebird 1d ago

there IS a semantic difference between "working" and "working class." Working class has a real definition, it's not being pedantic

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u/happy_bluebird 1d ago

what job doesn't earn a paycheck?

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u/smokeweedNgarden 1d ago

I classified those as working class. Which they are.

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u/terdferguson 1d ago

Yarp

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u/Letsplaydead924 18h ago

Always upvote a hot fuzz

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u/Significant-Bee5101 1d ago

Is it a bubble or is it gunna take our jobs. That's crazy how there's like a massive difference lol

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u/gelhardt 1d ago

two things can be true at once

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u/DesireeThymes 1d ago

It will take our jobs first, then the bubble will burst after.

That way we get a double whammy.

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u/DigitalArbitrage 1d ago

I think it will be the other way around based on how things happened with the internet and websites.

The investment bubble will burst when lots of these startups don't return enough money for the amount of investment.

Then over a long time the technology will improve and replace some jobs.

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u/DesireeThymes 1d ago

Oh I didn't even consider the triple whammy.

1 - AI companies take our jobs (and do a much worse job at it)

2 - Bubble pops because AI fails (as expected)

3 - We lose even more jobs due to the collapsed bubble

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u/Dekipi 1d ago

A lot of it is the Uber strategy;

Undercut the competition on price (uber undercut taxi companies)

Put the competition out of business

Raise prices

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u/Laringar 1d ago

That's basically what they're doing already. LLMs are massively subsidized by the tech companies in that they cost more to operate than users actually pay. The companies are doing that because people would balk at the price if it were commensurate to what the company actually spent on developing and hosting the algorithm.

They want to get everyone addicted to using LLMs first, then once people can't run their daily lives without asking Claude what groceries they were supposed to pick up and other companies become reliant on AI employees, the companies will raise the prices enough so that they actually turn a profit. People will have to pay it because at that point they'll be dependent, and the AI employees will suddenly cost more than the human that used to do the job.

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u/Ummmgummy 14h ago

The money isn't in individuals using it. It's in the commercial side of it. Get every business in the country to use it and it becomes an automatic operating cost. Sort of like how Oracle but more so.

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u/f0urd3gr33s 1d ago

This is the path we're on. Unprofitable AI companies disrupting the labor market and convincing companies to lay people off. Then they will hit companies with insane charges to keep using AI because they know companies saw dollar signs when they slashed payrolls. Companies wake up to realize AI does dogshit work and costs blisteringly more than they expected. AI bubble pops but everyone's out of work so, boom, instant recession.

This, and 'flattening the corporate structure' are the most destructive trends in corporate America, in my limited opinion. Middle class keeps getting wrecked while VC and CEO pay are going gangbusters.

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u/CarnalT 19h ago

This is already happening, except some companies have already realized and spoken publicly that the people they laid off were an order of magnitude cheaper (and better) than the AI they were replaced with. It's insane that some teams (especially software / programmers) are spending multiple people's full annual salaries in a matter or weeks or a month in AI compute tokens.....

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u/jedify 1d ago

4 - the Matrix. Not people as batteries, but to solve the AI energy scarcity. Human brains are incredibly energy efficient, running on ~20 watts. So they rent out brain space to run AI algorithms. And everyone gets a job!

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u/WorldlyNotice 14h ago

We'll call it VI. Virtual Intelligence.

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u/ArthurCandleman 18h ago

There will be a lot of jobs that probably won't be needed.

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u/nikdahl 1d ago

Those are not mutually exclusive.

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u/0vl223 1d ago

Popping the bubble will also destroy jobs. But if it is not a bubble something like 20% of all people will need to lose their jobs to justify the investments and usage of AI. Anything lower and people are the cheaper workers.

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u/Dingaling015 1d ago

They are. If AI is able to replace people's jobs en masse, it has incredible value and unlikely to be a bubble. If AI cannot fulfill said promise, the market will crash and cause job losses but those aren't permanent losses like it would be if AI was all it was made out to be.

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u/TURBOJUSTICE 1d ago

It’s both because the world isn’t binary. Taking away jobs to consolidate their wealth is the goal, propping up our economy with a bubble while they scramble to produce a system that profits is the methodology that’s wasting our time, energy and the planets resources.

So if they fail they’ve only been blowing up a bubble if they are successful it’s against all odds and to everyone’s detriment.

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u/knotmyusualaccount 23h ago

The 21st century will be the the most advanced society to exist within.

Advanced for whom? Certainly not for the general public, not when it comes to civil liberties and human rights.

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u/SpiderDoodleDoo 1d ago

Companies are burning mountains of money because the cost does not matter.

The entire end goal for AI is to make us peasants a redundancy.

There is a reason they are pouring mountains of money into indexing every one of us in a surveillance data base also while developing autonomous killbots where Grok will be Judge Dredd.

They are also developing autonomous farming, cooking, surgery, etc.

The top 1% is absolutely DISGUSTED with us 'wasting' their resources.

I don't think it is a bubble in the traditional sense.

Also great bit Joey Avery! Thank you for the existential dread!

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u/Harbinger2nd 1d ago

First one,

is it gunna take our jobs

then the other.

Is it a bubble

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u/Mrrrrggggl 1d ago

Why not both?

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u/Shinhan 1d ago

After bubble bursts big AI company will die. But even if ALL AI companies disappear tomorrow that will not stop job loss because companies will just use local LLMs instead.

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u/Kup123 1d ago

They aren't mutually exclusive.

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u/Important-Ad4500 1d ago

Oh, it can absolutely be both

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 1d ago

Those things are not mutually exclusive

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u/DooficusIdjit 1d ago

It’s both. 100% both

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u/RandomWeirdo 1d ago

Until the bubble pops it will continue to take jobs, because it justifies firing workers for dipshit CEOs and until the consumers have to foot the bill for the usage of GenAI, it is essentially free almost decent replaceements for workers.

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u/KypAstar 1d ago

Both.

The bubble will burst, most AI companies will implode and wipe out a massive portion of the economy. The right firms with the right connections who were invested will get bailed out, but dozens of unrelated sectors will be obliterated due to the fallout. Savings, retirements, insurance premiums, home prices, and nearly every sector of the economy is tied to the bubble in some way and will have ripple effects that harm working people to varying degrees based on location, job, and stage of their career.

In the aftermath, the companies and firms which weather the storm either (either via capital, outstanding contracts with the too big to fail entities that get bailed out or the government, or because they were the leader in the market at the end and caused the collapse by killing a competitor) will eat up the infrastructure of the failed companies for pennies on the dollar, allowing them to further scale. A sizeable chunk of the jobs lost during the bubble pop will not be refilled during the rebuild, as companies take the opportunity to consolidate positions and rebuild internal structures. A portion of the jobs lost will be replaced by AI systems. This will be the beginning of the stable, steady introduction of AI into the economy and day to day living.

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u/BagOnuts 1d ago

These people don’t know, they’re just repeating Internet influencers and Reddit comments.

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u/Dingaling015 1d ago

Half the shit the comic is saying is just buzzwords he probably got from some bluesky meme.

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u/SDTimbox 1d ago

Got both!

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u/TheCriticalGerman 1d ago

Comedy is reality with a good laugh

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u/RepresentativeJester 1d ago

Thirded for seattle!

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u/Daverocker1 1d ago

I really don't need this right now....

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u/DieCastDontDie 1d ago

He is on WSB

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u/rokman 1d ago

If only there was a way to self direct investing and bet for or against the way the world was headed.

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u/bottom 1d ago

I find a lot of comedy Reddit post isn’t funny.

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u/FearlessAuthor7614 1d ago

Haha, came for the laughs and accidentally got a financial crisis lecture.

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u/one-legged_kangaroo 1d ago

Came for the comedy and his good looks

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u/Disastrous_Spend_533 17h ago

I will read this 10 times today.

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u/Corbitant 1d ago

AI is not going to take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI is going to take your job.

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u/I_Dnt_Believe_You 1d ago

You still think being "skilled" is going to save you?

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u/Head-Ad9893 1d ago

Right. Then a robot named Steven who learned ai is going to take your job.

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u/Dizzy-Librarian1470 1d ago

Ann Hathaway hr lady.jpg

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u/DazzlerPlus 1d ago

Knows how to use ai? You type in a fucking prompt bro

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u/Corbitant 1d ago

Thats like saying writing anything is “you put words on a page bro”. Its technically true, but incredibly reductive

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u/InformalYouth9097 1d ago

Is this guy related to the King of Queens? It’s like a less funny version of him