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

@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.

Show threadDavid Gerard
@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
Mar 7 at 7:28pmWeb
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.