David GerardMar 7
i am disconcerted by how many techies who saw through crypto *immediately* have fallen for AI krokodil
Show threadChrysanthos

@davidgerard

I think it is partly to do with the brainrot from years of seeing "tech advance quickly" even the anti-AI people were early on mostly assuming that this tech was legit gonna be replacing artists etc.

I must admit I have myself become disabused of this notion now. We are long past the days of seeing video game graphics and mobile phones advance every year. Some technologies are just dead ends or cap out early on like fridges. Turns out LLMs are a dead end tech and the corpos are just horny to replace us with them.

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Show threadDavid GerardMar 7
@chrysanthos yeah, they really obviously hit the top of their s curve in 2023 and *everything* since then is logarithmically more effort for small linear gains
Show threadChrysanthosMar 7
@davidgerard Even people like Cory Doctorow still have a serious case of the "tech libertarian brainrot". It's a real problem with the techhead world. You'd think with how much Star Trek we all watched growing up we would've learned that message about technology must not mature faster than morality.
Show threadScott MichaudMar 7
@chrysanthos @davidgerard I'm guessing some (not all) of the priming to replace workers is related to post-Covid remote work, revival of unions, etc. The seeds of spite were fresh in the memory.
Show threadKorgie D. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Mar 7

@chrysanthos @davidgerard It has never made sense to me that some people think it could continue long-term or was sustainable. But even when tech was still advancing quickly, it caused many problems like a major increase in consumerism and transformed us into a throw-away society. It made so many people not appreciate what they had, and instead had them constantly needing the next thing. And advancing hardware made software get lazy and inefficient, where overcoming that with brute force (new hardware) just killed the environment with old e-waste and ever-increasing power usage of newer stuff.

Also, I'm not sure why anyone ever believed that there could be a desire for AI to replace the arts :/ or to replace anyone or anything, really.