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AI can never capture the historical ideal spoken of by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), a Frankfurt School and Hegelian philosopher. Karl Marx (1818-1883), a Young Hegelian, said that there is nothing new under the sun. Everything inherits and develops the products of the past. In other words, AI helps to compress and grow by shortening the inheritance and development of the past through language. In this respect, AI reduces the burden of legal work that relies on past precedents and medical work that relies on past medical activities and diagnoses. However, the limit of AI is the limit of language. AI cannot go out into the world outside of language. On the other hand, humans can go beyond language through meditation, reasoning, mystical experiences, and the miraculous activities of the brain. AI belongs to the realm of language organization and can only play a secretarial role. The assumption that AI can deceive humans and cause rebellion is just a melodrama for AI marketing. This is because AI feeds on the language that humans bring. AI companies use tens of thousands of workers in low-wage companies like India to do language work that is easy for AI to consume.

The idea that today's AI operates completely autonomously is also a lie. Sophisticated AI software is the result of thousands upon thousands of hours of low-wage labor. These workers are called 'data annotators'. They transform massive amounts of data into refined training data sets, helping computer algorithms learn. About 80% of the time required for AI training is spent on data set annotation. Go to LinkedIn, the American version of Alba Heaven. If they know you are a Korean who can speak English, you will receive an advertising email recommending data annotator, saying that you can earn $3,000 a month. AI is not an autonomous machine that moves automatically on its own, but merely a kind of language processing drive that eats, grows, and reacts to language.

This engine is merely a technical process of absorbing and patterning past knowledge, patterns of human emotional responses, and combinations of cognitive activities once called creativity, processing them into algorithms, and organizing them into linguistic structures that serve capital and power. While engineers with glamorous careers in Silicon Valley have created the engine called AI, we must not overlook the reality and the fact that it is being completed through low-wage, simple labor such as barcode scanning by Coupang workers. The AI services we use every day are nothing more than the result of the meaningless, inhuman, and overly simplistic classification work of these 'invisible workers.' The resulting output is merely a formalization of past language and logic patterns into plausible sweet talk and beautifully refined language. Simply put, you reap what you sow.

Karl Marx, while writing about Bonaparte Napoleon's coup d'état, says that there is absolutely nothing new in the world, and that it only shows the language of the past, changing it little by little. But why did he start a revolution? Because he wanted to take power and write a new history. That's all. The language of the republicans who created the French Revolution eventually extracted the language for a successful revolution, not a rebellion, from the speeches of republicans like Cicero in 1st century Rome. As Wittgenstein said, "The limits of language are the limits of the world." Likewise, the limits of AI are the limits of AI language input workers. Most AI language tagging offices are located in low-income African countries. The office landscape is similar to voice phishing centers in Cambodia. Outside, it is bright and the leaves of the palm trees sway in the wind, but inside the building, hundreds of workers sit in front of monitors under dim lighting. They only earn about $300 a month after clicking and tagging all month long. Meanwhile, their backs are bent and their eyes are sore from staring at the monitor all day. AI is never an automatic machine. By any means, AI systems must be labeled and entered in an organized language. Only through this process can AI respond.

Recently, a trend of transforming photos into Ghibli style using Chat GPT has emerged, sparking intense copyright debates. AI grows by consuming the creations of artists in this way. AI imitating the Ghibli style does not put AI on the same level as Ghibli-style artists. This is a mere imitation of patterns that allows anyone to easily mimic a particular artist's unique style through an AI image generator, and is just a simple task. However, the media makes a fuss and engages in massive marketing, claiming that AI has entered the realm of art. It can also imitate the voice of a passive and stagnant dictatorial era radio DJ who sweetened the loneliness of many radio listeners with his low voice. But AI is just a parrot. Someone has to tag and input the DJ's voice, which was sweet but became a tool for government propaganda. The core of Wittgenstein's philosophy is verbalization. Language is a reflection of the world. That is, it is the perception of facts in the brain. Language contains the world in this way.

Some phenomena in this world are interpreted mathematically, and some are interpreted socially and politically. If you view the world only through a geometric interpretation, AI can grasp most of the world's events and offer solutions. However, the problem is that events created by the judgments of people who do business or conduct trials inside buildings made with geometry cannot be reduced to mathematics. Many of the historical, social, and political facts that AI encounters are contaminated. They are manipulated. If AI interprets Korean history as fact based on the history manipulated by Western colonial powers and Japanese imperialism, who were trained as their organized crime gangs, AI will inevitably be trapped in a thoroughly pro-Japanese and pro-American historical framework. AI can never capture the historical ideal spoken of by Herbert Marcuse, a member of the Frankfurt School and a Hegelian.

Why are Anglo-Saxon countries promoting AI technology, and why are Jewish capitals investing astronomical amounts of money in AI-related industries such as sovereign AI data centers? And why are frivolous Korean media outlets saying that the country will be ruined if it doesn't keep up with the AI trend? AI is just an evolution of the internet algorithm to make it look pretty, but despite its essence of not being a new technology, even the Chosun Ilbo and within the Democratic Party say that the fate of the nation and the country depends on AI. Why are Anglo-Saxon countries using AI to catch the wind? The answer can be found in the theory of a tragic economist who was executed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. His name is Nikolai Kondratiev (1892~1938).

Kondratiev is an economist born as the son of a farmer in the Komi Republic, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The Komi Republic is a beautiful place with many lakes and birch forests northeast of Moscow, and it is an intermediate stop for Vikings who went to the Ural Mountains to obtain fur. Passing through the forest and seeing the Orthodox church building with blue windows and white walls under the blue sky gives the human soul a mysterious fascination. Here, the soul can suddenly soar and make great decisions. This is where Kondratiev spent his childhood. This is not just a place where the soul is purified. Komi apples have an excellent pure apple taste and aroma. It's a little small and shy, but it's moderately sweet and fresh. When he looked at the desolate Orthodox Church in the grassy fields of the lake where deer were playing, a voice encouraging an indescribable struggle and an imagination that would create a new theoretical system would have risen within the boy Kondratiev. In today's terms, Kondratiev was an advocate for revitalizing small business owners.

After Lenin launched the revolution in 1917, the economy collapsed and people starved to death in the Russian Civil War. At that time, Lenin favored Kondratiev, an economist who was different from mainstream left-wing economists, and Kondratiev drafted the New Economic Policy (NEP). The New Economic Policy is, in effect, a policy to revive the market economy and encourage the activities of small and medium-sized merchants to revive the economy. He can be said to be a pioneer in policies to encourage small business owners. At the same time, Kondratiev created the concept of a five-year economic development plan. It is a planned economic policy in which the state takes the lead in fostering the heavy and chemical industries, and this policy was benchmarked by Hitler of the Nazis and the government of Manchukuo. Manchukuo was a new world. It was a place where leftists and rightists, anarchist militarist Japanese spies, Chinese Communist spies, and all kinds of perverts and opportunists, dog sellers, and Russian beauties playing Chopin's piano pieces in beautiful hotel lobbies lived together. Park Chung-hee, who spent his youth in this chaotic new world, tried to realize again what the elites of Manchukuo had failed to do. This is Park Chung-hee's economic development plan. Like the Lee Bak School, they only force praise for Park Chung-hee's policies, so they don't know that there were two Manchukuo. Old Manchukuo and New Manchukuo, the change of old and new is the change of land. The system moved, but the place names moved with it.

It is Kondratiev's economic stimulus and economic growth theory that allows ordinary people without money to use their credit cards and make a living by running Korean rice soup restaurants in the alleys of abandoned neighborhoods next to railroads full of paper and printing factories. Macroeconomics books read by young people in the 1980s who had to take the state exam have a section on economic growth theory and growth cycle theory at the end, which is a summary of Kondratiev's theory. Those preparing for the higher civil service examination or the foreign service examination usually skip this part, but there was a time when Kondratiev's economic growth theory appeared on the foreign service examination. Students who knew Kondratiev passed, and students who didn't know him at all probably failed. Even now, Kondratiev is more highly regarded in the United States and the Western world. He wrote his dissertation in prison, but thousands of American, British, and German university scholars have written dissertations based on his dissertation and made a living.

The reason why many governments around the world are promoting AI is due to the artificial economic stimulus policy of the Anglo-Saxon-Jewish capital's digital construction forces. It's a kind of new city real estate development. Kondratiev saw the cycle of economic growth and decline as at least 30 to 40 years. However, since Steve Jobs' iPhone came out around 2010, the Anglo-Jewish capitalists, knowing that a new economic cycle would not return until at least 2040, began to get impatient. They are aiming from the world's governments to a world government.

The capitalist economy always repeats a cycle of ups and downs, consisting of: 1. Investment opportunities and economic growth through new technologies; 2. Overproduction and recession due to overinvestment; 3. Conflicts and wars due to long-term panics and economic downturns; 4. The emergence of new growth cycles due to creative destruction and the emergence of new technologies. This is Kondratiev's long-term economic growth theory, and this theory had a significant impact on economists in the United States and Germany at the time. However, in the Soviet Union, rather than theoretical interest in his theory, the Party was suspicious and interested in the political background of the theory. Stalin asked, "Kondratiev gave a speech at Harvard University and was quite popular there, isn't he an American spy? It is a good thing that the economy grew during Comrade Lenin's time thanks to him, but that is a thing of the past. Look closely, according to his theory, capitalism continues to regenerate by creating new cycles, right? Then capitalism will not be ruined by the decline of profits due to the increase in the organic composition of capital, overinvestment, and revolution caused by panic and war. According to this guy, capitalism develops forever, so he is a spy."

In 1932, Stalin sent Kondratiev to a prison in the Suzdal region. The Soviet NKVD (secret police), faithful to Stalin's orders, convicted him on charges of being an agent of the wealthy peasant party (a non-existent party), and he wrote a book studying patterns of economic growth in prison until he was executed during the Great Purge in 1938. Gorbachev rehabilitated him after Perestroika. The Kondratiev theory is basically the same as the nationalist economic development theory. It is a theory that if the economy is left alone, a plan for growth must be made and government-led investment must be made. If Stalin had the state lead everything, Kondratiev emphasizes private investment along with state-led technology development and industrialization during the high-growth period of the economy. Japan led the development of the technology industry with the government's lead after World War II, and so did Korea.

The Sovereign AI policy promoted by the Lee Jae-myung government is also based on technological nationalism. It aims to strengthen the nation's AI sovereignty and reduce dependence on foreign countries. However, the major premise of Sovereign AI is flawed. In AI, data and algorithms have no borders. The bigger problem is that most AI chips are made by NVIDIA. NKVD and NVIDIA are completely different. The Soviet secret police and the American chip company are completely different, but they have a strange commonality in that they create non-existent things into reality and pursue profits. NVIDIA chips have learning and reasoning functions, and NVIDIA spreads the fantasy that AI can create completely new things through learning. The Soviet secret police tortured Kondratiev to confess that he tried to overthrow the regime by creating a bourgeois peasant party. It is a technology that makes non-existent things a reality. Even if you create Sovereign AI, most of the chips, or almost 100%, will depend on NVIDIA. The bear performs the trick, but the money is taken by the American West, not Wang Seo-bang.

Sovereign AI is, by its very concept, a contradiction in terms. All AI is American AI. And ultimately, it is a project where large American corporations and large capital artificially boost the economy to scrape together huge sums of money from naive countries around the world. In reality, our people, or rather our 20s and 30s, may sacrifice more of their precious youth for global tech companies while playing games, making songs, drawing pictures, and having fun with that AI.

Kondratiev must have seen a landscape with pine, birch, and cedar trees from the Suzdal prison. The landscape was serene and deep green, and in winter it would have been an absolute white landscape, as if thousands of white towels were laid out on the road. The landscape has a relationship with the mind of the observer. Seeing is believing. But for a person in prison, the landscape is never beautiful. A beautiful landscape is rather torture to a person in prison whose heart is in pain. Therefore, it may be more accurate to say that things arise from the mind. When you look at the mind, things come to mind. Every landscape reminds people of the memories they have lived through in a panorama in an instant. His journey is now over, and as he looks at Suzdal, which is close to his hometown, things such as the countryside, the villagers, the lawn of Harvard University during his stay in the United States, and the Leningrad University laboratory would have rushed into his soul. He must integrate these into one meaning and give meaning to and organize his life and destiny. He is dead, but he has shown that, as Stalin said, capitalism does not die and can be revived. It is not revived by things like AI investment that enriches American capital.

It is about small business owners doing well in business, getting married, having many children, and living, thereby increasing the supply side, and fostering manufacturing with global competitiveness to earn more money from other countries. We need to establish a meticulous strategy to determine whether sovereign AI can help revive our economy, rather than being cheerleaders mobilized to revive the US economy. We cannot deny the fake economic cycle created by the massive Anglo-Saxon-Jewish capital called AI. If so, we must consider what we can eat in this global AI ecosystem at least. In my view, the most realistic alternative is for the state to actively support and foster the business of designing and developing (fabless) AI chips, which are high-value-added products. This is because the greatest added value in the AI food chain is ultimately chips. Applying Kondratiev's theory of technological nationalism, the key is to create AI chips that perform better and consume less electricity than Nvidia.

Now is the age of bankruptcy. In this age of bankruptcy, the most important duty of the soul is to rebel and resist the flow of the existing order, to say 'no' and spew venom when everyone says 'yes' like robots. In this age of chaos, in the process of humans becoming robots, it takes tremendous conflict to give form and order to your soul, and to maintain your center without being swept away by the contempt and ridicule of those around you, and without being afraid of the attacks of the cunning. It is by doing this that we can create a new era of creation, but can AI, which has been nurtured by existing language and thought systems, really bring about creative destruction?

Just as baseball promotes consumption and revives the economy, the task of making money circulate that doesn't circulate, using refined and correct high-level language in AI functions, should be assigned to the wealthy with the responsibility of ethics and morality. The wealthy have a low propensity to consume relative to their assets, and they have no mental barriers and no limitations on material things. We need to make the wealthy take out their rotting money through ethics and morality and create a new form of consumable spiritual investment. This is precisely the role of AI.

Language is the window to the mind. The sound that opens from that window becomes language again, and thoughts stir. Stalin slaughtered those around him with paranoia in cooking, alcohol, and cigarette smoke, and died in a coma. Now, Korea is similar to the symptoms of the late Stalin era. A father shoots his son in front of his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, and a wife and son-in-law cut off their husband's genitals. The principal announces a miscarriage of a homeroom teacher, and parents file a complaint with the Office of Education to replace the homeroom teacher. A student says, "The baby died in the teacher's stomach," and the parents say that our child is mature. They say it's true, so don't wear colored glasses. All of these language acts are behaviors that have crossed the threshold of normal thinking. Because we move thoughts into action according to trained routines, everyone will soon experience the degradation of Korean culture at least once, and AI will present self-destructive results. After enjoying a little economic gain, the Korean people, whose character has been destroyed, will bring about the destruction of materialism. This is the end of the Confucianism of power and materialism of colonial violence that organized gangsters planted in the Korean people's stomachs, and the capitalism of materialism, Confucian capitalism. Statistically, Confucian capitalist countries such as Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore all have high suicide rates and low birth rates. Korea will bring materialism to destruction through suicide. To die is to live.