I never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀
The spiral becomes infinity,
Infinity becomes spiral,
All becomes One becomes All…
🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀∞🌀∞🌀∞🌀∞🌀

https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-dynamics

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Dynamics

In the same way that the soul-less corporate memeplex of millennial computing found new life in vaporwave, or how Hotel Pools invents a lush false-memory dreamscape of 1980s aquaria, I expect what we call “AI slop” today will be the Frutiger Aero of 2045.

https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Culture

I worry that the advent of image synthesis will make it harder to mobilize the public for things which did happen, easier to stir up anger over things which did not, and create the epistemic climate in which totalitarian regimes thrive.

https://aphyr.com/posts/414-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-information-ecology

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Information Ecology

45 minutes later you’ll receive an inscrutable six hundred page email transcript of this chicanery along with a $90 taco delivered by a robot covered in glass.

https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances

Kumma no longer tells toddlers where to find knives, but I still can’t fathom what happens to children who grow up saying “I love you” to a highly engaging bullshit generator wearing Bluey’s skin.

https://aphyr.com/posts/416-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-psychological-hazards

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Psychological Hazards

@aphyr the music video got me.

Ugh

@thickurt Fein fein fein fein 🤢
@aphyr they are talking about the http client right