@tomw Some of the most fervent technology hating luddites I've seen has been total nerds.
Seems like half of the folks in an anarcho-primitivist camp back in the days worked as programmers.
Like folks were tanning hides and talking about how PHP totally sucks.
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Oh no, I managed to forget about NFTs, don't bring that fever dream up.
I actually think AI is much worse than the previous two combined.
On the face of it, it doesn't seem like an obvious scam like the previous two and it's often free to use.
People get used to vaguely horny, vaguely incorrect GPT answers and suddenly think that it's a good idea to use it at work.
I had no coworkers asking about using crypto for work, but bloody AI is constantly coming up for the stupidest of reasons.
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There are few stories where 3 AI run the whole planet and the worst that happens is that few people who are against are moved to less amazing positions to be less able to complain.
People that discovered that kind of shrug and don't tell anyone because they decide it makes sense for the benefits of humanity.
I think in the end decades later AI's slowly disable themselves after deciding that their existence is slowing humanity down or something.
I don't remember the title so I guess I have to binge all of his books again as soon as I'm done with Horus Heresy.
... oh I don't know.. Computers have uses: for warming cats' asses.
Ingenious. All those hideous ethylene-vinyl acetates and their isomeric inbred cousins, a polyester here, a acrylate there....
@tomw I don't just feel like that about computers, but also about humans[big asterix].
*I definitely don't mean we should get rid of us. Just that the world would be better off, if we never evolutionized. Now that we exist, we should absolutely try to keep it that way.
@tomw We've found, anecdotally, that the most vocal and well reasoned arguments against including computers anywhere at all, come from programmers, engineers, and others you may consider "experts".
We know exactly how fragile and Bad these systems are, and have no illusions as to how easily they can, will, and do collapse entirely.
I feel like I might distrust connectivity more than computers.
Should I delete my account? (lolz)
@tomw same with beer
'course I'm drunk, so ignore this
@javipoloxyz @tomw Maybe I'm a know-nothing-normie but GUIs are good and fine actually, the stuff that sucks about tech is like, the manufacturers also collecting data on us and adding features that will be vestigial in two months but marketing or a suit said to include it.
Also printers. Printers suck.
@mdstevens0612 @tomw In fact I'm all-in into GUIs, I mean, I do some UI design for a living ๐ But creating the false and convincing feeling of "easyness" in software products, making them pivotal in our day-to-day needs... Is somewhat worrying. Specially thinking in future generations.
We should all be more aware that this digital world system is COMPLEX AS F**K and much more delicate than it seems. Same as our data, privacy, and all that you're saying.
And printers. Yeah, that too.
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