ZeeTiger
Aral BalkanโThere isnโt enough bullshit in the world, we should automate the generation of it.โ
โ Silicon Valley, circa 2023
Frank Bennett ๐ฏ๐ต@aral And given declining returns with expansion of supply, it needs to grow exponentially.
marcorobotics@aral naaaah it's more like "if this machine can bullshit like a human, imagine all the other things it will be able to do!!" ๐ ๐คฃ
antipode77AI looks a lot like the Tower of Babel.
There was so much info going around, that no one any more knew, which was false and which true.
Not a Spring Onion@aral
Interestingly, all the new bullshit technologies need large server farms.
Video streaming: Because playing media from local storage is too energy-efficient.
Big data: No idea if the data we collect is useful. Let's collect it anyway.
Blockchain: In case you thought databases were just too efficient and you want something slower.
LLM: Using a lot of text to generate more text, at least we can use the GPUs we bought because we thought cryptocurrencies were a great idea.
wraptile@aral and it's kinda working. For the first time in a long while people start to care about content quality, legitimacy and intellectual property.
It's almost like #accelerationism works?
@wraptile โIf we pollute the environment even more, maybe people will care more about the environment.โ
@aral yes! It's called the "comfort zone" and I'm not sure whether you're being wilfully ignorant or have some sort of agenda?
ืืืืงืืื@wraptile @aral I don't have any political economy theories based around "comfort zones." We can talk in terms of class interest, capitalist superstructure, or even Overton Windows, but all I can associate with "comfort zones" is individualistic self-help coaching techniques designed to encourage individuals' discipline.
Edit: I "believe in" the attached definition, absolutely.
@wraptile Iโm drawing attention to the logical fallacy behind the argument that we must destroy something for people to care about it (or, even worse, that we defend our destruction of said thing as altruism to bring about the aforementioned effect).
And get lost with that โagendaโ talk. Youโre barking up the wrong tree.
Violet Madder@aral Pretty much exactly the very LAST thing we needed right now.
oli_jens@aral do you know what the ROI is on automated bullshit?? POTENTIALLY INFINITE MONEY
Hfb@aral I thought they had . . .