Mastodawn

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs

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G-Squirrel 1d ago

@pluralistic Absolutely this. I'm sure there's a straight line to be drawn from the 2008 financial crisis (and particularly the government's response of austerity) to the 2016 Brexit vote; through to today's horrifying position of Reform potentially coming into power in a couple of years. 18 years of declining public services, flatlining wages & visible corruption of parliament (most apparent under Johnson) has left the people bitter & angry.

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bovaz

@gsquirrel @pluralistic Something similar in Italy.
That, and turning words like "socialism" into political slurs, for some fucking reason.

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LisPi 10h ago

@bovaz @pluralistic @gsquirrel That's been a USA problem since the red scare.

It's completely nonsensical, of course.