I've been thinking recently about how the current LLM craze (and the cryptocurrency craze before it) is quite like the "Cash for Ash" scandal in Northern Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal

At its kernel, we've got this terrible idea, but we've also got externalisation of costs so that it's the users of the system that are the ones choosing to ignore the environmental costs presumably out of some sort of economic rationale.

If they are comparable, and I think they are, there needs to be a reckoning, not just for the users, but for the crafters at the centre of the scheme.

#RHI #CashForAsh #TormentNexus #Environment #Externalisation #Economics #RationalActors

RE: https://mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/116320978499738765

It really is time for the Butlerian Jihad, except these things aren't 'Thinking Machines', despite humans having surrendered their thinking to them.

Stop trying to make the Torment Nexus!

#ButlerianJihad #Dune #DataCentres #AI #TormentNexus #ClimateCrisis #TechBros

"I've passed the Turing Test" announced the mindless machine, a more sophisticated version of Autocorrect and no more.

"You've passed the Turing Test" agreed the Human, projecting themselves onto Fancy Autocorrect because they were lonely

A modern romance.

#TuringTest #AI #AIPsychosis #ChatGPT #TormentNexus

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116295745357971471

This is exactly what the Oligarchs want, isn't it? Us not thinking for ourselves, reliant on their shitty apps to think, proper Torment Nexus stuff

#TormentNexus

Re-reading the agelesslinux.org website just makes me wonder if 501c3 organizations will move from places stupid enough to implement identity verification...

Big tech is trying so hard to please the oligarchy, by forcing identity into all things. So the #panopticon #tormentnexus can control everything in the name of protecting the children.