mccNaming my new AI startup DemiUrge™
Imagine a cave, where various persons are imprisoned since birth. They are chained so as to create a fixed gaze upon a wall, on which can be seen the shadows of various entities walking past outside the cave— people, horses, carts. This audience would be, by nature, highly engaged with these shadows, which we may call "content". So what if— among these shadows— we were to include advertisements?
Sylvhem@mcc Thanks! I hate it.
Justin ⏚
Darius Kazemi
Martin
Eric True
Misuse Case@mcc PLATO: “This is extremely cursed.”
Killa Koala@mcc As long as I get to decide who gets chained up in this cave.
Purple@mcc If that persons are chained, isn't it a matter of time that they starve to death?
Andre Weissflog@mcc when you can't buy the thing that's advertised, the advertisement becomes a valuable thing on its own (e.g. back in East Germany, shiny western print magazine ads were treasured almost like the real thing that was out of reach). A sort of cargo cult basically, but without ever having experienced the actual cargo, only ever seeing its "shadow on the wall".
Zaxxon the Robot
Dan Cassidy 🦌
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Filene Taylor
Brian Moon@mcc Prehistoric Torment Nexus
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Feoh@mcc AAAH AAAH AAAH YOU'VE POSTULATED SEO IN PLATO'S CAVE!!!!!!
Dieu@mcc this is easily one of the greatest toots of all time. Can only boost once though.
alan 
-- Plado
Geoff 🏴@mcc Plato's Social Media?
Amélia Bjórnsdottir/Ursidíno (she, they)@mcc it’d be useless
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BYOBattleship@mcc holy shit this is *art*
aiuto@mcc Very funny. No one under 60 will understand why.
Kevin Granade has moved@kevingranade @mcc You can check by looking at the manufacturing label under your left butt cheek.
martini@mistersql @mcc For those that don’t get the reference: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-burmashave/
And now I need to figure out where I knew it from …
Glyph@martini @mistersql @mcc there are Burma Shave references in Haroun and the Sea of Stories and the Infocom game “Enchanter”, if that helps
@glyph @mistersql @mcc I’m not familiar with either unfortunately, though I think I know one place now - maybe American Gods?
Clifton RoystonI am awed by your genius.
Tonya Marie 🏳️⚧️@mcc
Five toots of highest quality!
dixego@mcc GaaS (Gnosticism as a Service)
Paul Martin@mcc Plutocratic Cave.
tmk@mcc To view this cave wall, please turn off your adblocker.
Colin Jacobs@mcc The platonic ideal of enshittification
llewelly@mcc
what is this, Plato's youtube??
what is this, Plato's youtube??
Allan Chow@mcc we need the Apple Vision Pro to cause Tetris Effect but with ADS
Bodling@mcc If we then replace one link in one of the chains with an exact replica, will they still be chained in the same cave? What about replacing one rock in the cave wall? At what point are they only in a simulation of their original cave, and not in the original Matrix?
So many dynamos@mcc The shadows themselves can be monetized on a simple subscription basis as well, and owing to the natural monopoly, would likely enjoy a high customer retention rate
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Dreaming of dad jazz.@mcc if you lathe of heaven this shit into existence I shall be extremely cross.
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wlo
What if philosophy but can get venture capital?
@CliftonR This is the promise of TESCREAL
Treacle mines aren't real, I tell you!
And the Rock Basilisks went extinct in the late 1600s!
It's a scam!
Broken Troland
Howard Chu @ Symas@mcc what's the point of advertising to people in chains? What are they going to be able to buy?
Amish Super Model
margot@mcc i appreciate that you're making this literal but i do think this is the business model for most LLM startups
GSV Megastructure Enthusiast@mcc GPT stands for gnostic pleroma transcendence.
Grant Gould@mcc Oh hey that's my job right there...
Refurio AnachroWhere is the diagram on the left from?
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@mcc really screwed up that demiurge doesn’t mean “half-hearted desire”
@mcc some day I’ll proof-read a toot
wheatley gaming@c0dec0dec0de so true bestie