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.

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Steve Holden

@pluralistic 😆

There is such a thing as too much computing power. People are in such a rush nowadays. Well, the greedy ones are, anyway.

As a 60-year observer of this increasingly insane industry I fear they are in the spiral arm of a whirlpool whose efflux will pollute the economy for decades.