Noisy DeadlinesApr 19
Matt

More Codeslop, Please

Well, they’ve finally done it. Through raw force of will and more money than god, the nerds have finally done something that will “make the world a better place.” By that, I mean they’ve pooped out something will finally change the world in big ways, for better and worse.

As an early AI critic, I say this now, because the spicy autocomplete app finally excreted some text I could use, in the form of computer code that actually compiles. The AI hype prophesy made only five short years ago, that “it’ll be better tomorrow,” has finally come true.

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Silicon Valley - Making the World a Better Place

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Show threadPaolo AmorosoApr 11
@matt A technology that commoditizes and normalizes the plausible manipulation of reality, what's not to love?
Show threadAaron BradyApr 13

@matt I feel different about this on different days but one thing that generally gives me hope is that marketing can't truly overcome things that people actually don't want.

People poured riches into trying to make us want 3D films, interactive TV, Second Life, NFTs, Google Glass, Snapchat Spectacles, VR, AR, Second Life 2 (the Metaverse), Justice League, folding phones, streaming-only consoles, Smart TVs, Windows only ARM devices, the Apple Touchbar and Amazon tablets.

Show threadAaron BradyApr 13

@matt Probably lots of stuff I don't remember. Sometimes we come up against astroturfed loss-leaders and still say "nah, thanks".

Most of these things still exist, but never lived up to their hype, aren't "the future" in a widely accepted way. They haven't displaced their older equivalents (2D films, cameraphones, video games on a TV, having function keys ...)

Nothing is inevitable; maybe that's even more true when someone has to spend so much money telling you to like it.