TaggartHoly crap this story knocked me over. It is everything I'm feeling about the machines right now.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
Softwarewolf@mttaggart @WeirdWriter "I fucking hate the Tech Bros. I hate the hype. I hate the Bros wrongly claiming LLM's will turn us all into toast. I hate their never-ending quest to make their investments have a return. I hate the venture capitalists in their Patagonia vests who talk about "disruption" while they burn down the library of human experience and fuck over workers. I hate them with the specific, intricate hatred of a survivor who knows exactly how the grift works."
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Joe Vinegar@faoluin @mttaggart @WeirdWriter #LLM https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/ "The unraveling doesn't happen all at once. It is a slow rot, a decomposition of confidence that the Germans call Zersetzung[1]. Psychological decomposition. It was the method the Stasi used to break dissidents not with torture, but with gaslighting, with subtle alterations of reality until the subject lost faith in their own mind."
[1].https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
[...] to undermine their self-confidence and self-esteem. [...] designed to intimidate and destabilise them by subjecting them to repeated disappointment, and to socially alienate them by interfering with and disrupting their relationships with others [...] to induce personal crises in victims, leaving them too unnerved and psychologically distressed to have the time and energy for anti-government activism.