Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 12

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.

This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").

Here:

👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens

👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)

 

#AI

Show threadtheM0ntarCann0nMar 12
@rysiek The only difference i see is the fact that suff produced by soviet factories was usually quite useful.
Show threadRihards OlupsMar 12

@montar @rysiek ...you must not be from that region and that time.

We even had jokes about stuff we bought and then had to actually make it work.
One was about USA stealing the plans for a rocket, and building truck / train engine / whatever out of it. And then somebody from the USSR would go "oh, you just have to hammer it in shape!".

Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 12

@richlv

Q: What is it: does not glow and does not fit in one's arse?
A: Soviet device to glow inside an arse.

But I think @montar's point was more about how stuff produced in those factories was at least ostensibly useful.

As in: a washing machine is a useful thing in general, even if a particular washing machine happens to be broken.

Which is not really the case with "AI" tokens.

Show threadRihards OlupsMar 12
@rysiek @montar Haha yeah, had forgotten about that one :D
Show threadRihards OlupsMar 12

@rysiek @montar Regarding the edit - yeah, there could be a difference in different meanings of "useful" there.

Anyway, found another joke :)

Q: What is three stories tall, consumes 20 gallons of diesel an hour, and cuts an apple into three pieces?

A: A soviet machine designed to cut an apple into four pieces.

Show threadchiasmMar 12
@richlv @rysiek @montar I remember a friend of mine who served in the Hungarian army in the 80's telling us about how they all wanted to be assigned to march in FRONT of the Soviet tanks, because they always misfired, but they'd kill the soldiers behind them with backfiring... 😳
Show threadtheM0ntarCann0n
@chiasm @[email protected] @rysiek That's scary.
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