Why Investments into AI, Crypto, and Quantum Computing are Now a Waste of Resources but Could be a Proxy to Discharge Debts after the AI Bubble Collapse

At a saturation point, diminishing returns by means of scaling up AI do not keep pace with resource cost

Billions of dollars are pouring into AI, quantum computing, and cryptography - all for alleged economic benefits and increases in productivity. While people struggle to afford necessities like housing, childcare, healthcare, and education, Mark Zuckerberg announces he plans on building AI datacenters the size of Manhattan - economic planning you have no part in developing the vision for.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-24/why-is-manhattan-being-crushed-by-this-giant-meta-data-center

The reason this is a collosal waste of resources is that the brain is vastly more efficient then any of these systems - so from a purely economic and computational perspective, it would actually be better to invest directly in infrastructure and local communities.

If you feel that there haven't been many improvements at home, a part of the problem is that we are all expected to live in digital prisons and none of the money is going towards housing, education, healthcare, infrastructure, or childcare. Under the guise of technological progress, all other things are sacrificed while all power is concentrated in the hands of those that control the mass surveillance and information control apparatus.

Take the thesis of Dr. Penrose, who claims that the brain is a quantum computer that processes information by means of gravity - accounting for the measurement problem:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5373371

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396388808_Building_a_Cheap_Scalable_Error_Corrected_Room_Temperature_Topological_Quantum_Computer_with_Current_Technology_Using_Only_Social_Networks_of_People

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/it-may-be-possible-to-build-a-scalable-quantum-computer-with-only-your-friends

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/our-ai-systems-are-not-conscious-but-if-they-were-could-save-the-u-s-at-least-150-billion-by-203

If his theory is correct, than it should be feasible to break postquantum lattice cryptography, and also build a scalable quantum computer by means of trophic social networks of people alone:

https://ipipublishing.org/index.php/ipil/article/view/171

We also know that societies reach entropic limits of complexity after which they collapse because institutions become too complex to maintain (according to sociologist Joseph Tainter). In this view, it is more efficient to invest directly in people, local communities, and infrastructure than ever more complicated AI systems after a tipping point (which in post industrial societies is a bit after the point of financialization of the economy).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5299044

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/the-real-purpose-behind-the-ai-hype

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/ai-is-not-conscious-and-the-so-called-technological-singularity-is-us

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/what-happens-during-the-collapse-of-societies-at-catastrophe-points-in-socioeconophysics-theory

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/a-spectral-theory-of-falling-fertility-rates

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/the-mind-boggling-stupidity-of-our-current-ai-crypto-strategy-in-the-usa

This also explains why overreliance on AI as an information survelliance and control loop in organizations after a saturation point of complexity can be their own downfall, like at Microsoft:

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/update-on-my-case-against-microsoft

Currently the only likely value for further investments in this technology will be the discharge of debts through devaluation as the AI bubble pops.