{"id":129814,"date":"2025-11-09T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129814\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:52:10","slug":"the-most-terrifying-graph-i-have-ever-seen-by-will-lockett-nov-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129814\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Terrifying Graph I Have Ever Seen | by Will Lockett | Nov, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press enter or click to view image in full size<img alt=\"\" class=\"bi hs ht c\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" loading=\"eager\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Photo by <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nahrizuladib?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nahrizul Kadri<\/a> on <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a>The entire premise of the AI boom makes no sense. But it was never meant to.<a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wlockett.medium.com\/?source=post_page---byline--34dad4408f85---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Lockett\" class=\"m fk by bz ca de\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1*V0qWMQ8V5_NaF9yUoHAdyg.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"4d4d\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">The AI boom is idiotic, needlessly complex, and wrapped up in a huge amount of convoluted propaganda that makes it nearly impossible to unpick it all and figure out what the hell is actually going on. What we need is a helicopter view. Something that helps us cut through the crap and get a lay of the land. Only then can we chart a way forward that doesn\u2019t end in disaster. There is one simple graph that does this better than anything I have ever seen. However, it is truly terrifying, and not for reasons you might think, because AI has very little to do with AI.<\/p>\n<p id=\"30c4\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">The logic surrounding the AI boom is utterly moronic. The idea is to gamble the entire Western economy by heavily investing in technology that will wipe out almost all jobs. It is a lose-lose scenario. If the bet fails, the economy crashes. If the bet succeeds, the economy crashes. And this graph shows that this is precisely what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Press enter or click to view image in full size<img alt=\"\" class=\"bi hs ht c\" width=\"700\" height=\"473\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Source: <a class=\"ah hy\" href=\"https:\/\/qexmanagement.com\/uncategorized\/blog-3\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">QEX Management<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"19c8\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nu nv ie nw b iy nx ny nz jb oa ob oc od oe of og oh oi oj ok ol om on oo op he bl\">Above is a graph of the value of the S&amp;P 500 (in green), an index fund of the largest 500 companies in the US, and the total number\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full sizePhoto by Nahrizul Kadri on UnsplashThe entire premise of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-129814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}