Gokul Das1d ago

If you thought that it couldn't get any worse than #SocialMedia #addiction,... I come bearing bad news. Check out this #horror:

#AI #Psychosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxmIIYj5FQE

You didn't expect the #oligarchs to leave a revolutionary new #technology uncorrupted, did you?

Just get off the #internet and create real-world #SocialNetworks. We can retrofit #technology into it according to OUR needs. Oh, BTW! Keep the KIDS OFF OF IT! This isn't #BrainRot. This is literal #BrainDamage!

#LLM #ChatGPT

AI is Sending People into Psychosis

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Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson1d ago
@goku12 The updated EU Product Liability Directive explicitly assigns liability for psychological damage.
Show threadGokul Das1d ago
@bms48 That's a relief! But honestly, the only way to get these companies to play by the rules is to not let them play at all. Kick them off the market! Otherwise they'll treat the penalties as a cost of doing business. They themselves are suffering from Psychosis, with nihilistic delusions about everything other than money and hallucinations of cold cash in practically everything they see. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAop4Su5Uag
charlie chaplin turns into a chicken

Big jim is hungry and thinks charlie is nice big juicy chicken

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Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson1d ago
@goku12 They are busy trying to externalize the con right now with the IPO attempts, and a push by their "golden boy" startups towards "fast disposable software", which is completely at odds with that of life-supporting infrastructure. They have significant marketing budgets and are "flooding the zone" constantly, despite lay people being keenly aware of the limtiations of LLM-based GenAI systems. Kate Crawford, 7 pages into "Atlas of AI" in 2021, warned everyone of what could happen.
Show threadGokul Das1d ago
@bms48 Absolutely! Though, I saw a post by a late GenZ developer in a tech forum on the lines of "How do senior managers cope with working alongside young AI-enabled polymaths".
I don't know what sort of delusion this is. But his lack of awareness about basic etiquette and his own limitations scares me. They seem to overestimate the level of creativity in AI - something that is actually based on memorized human responses. I worry about the world they'll create.
Show threadGokul Das1d ago
@bms48 Another one of my worries is that these techno-fratbois are conducting a huge snake oil sales scam. They're in a massive circular deal and are also stifling the critical digital components market (esp DRAMs) for their datacenters.
But when it finally collapses like a castle of cards, they will just cash out their corporate welfare benefits and leave the rest of us with a massive bill and a mess to clean up. Yes, they're externalizing the con.
Show threadNadia/Надя/नाडिया/娜迪亚/ نادية18h ago
@goku12 @bms48 Interestingly, Ed Zitron has been finding that the data centres aren't getting built and the chips haven't been getting delivered. The entire USA tech sector has turned into a massive Ouroboros-like human centipede of fraud across a breathtaking scope of domains. Engineering fraud, pump-and-dump Ponzi stock manipulation, massive accounting fraud and more. Supposedly banks are already getting tight-fisted as the endless torrent of Gulf monarchy money propping much of it up was finally ended by Iranian missile strikes. My bet is that it's going to make 2008 look like a fixed-income elderly widow emptying her purse of pocket change into a slot machine and unsurprisingly getting nothing back.
Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson18h ago
@nyc @goku12 I just got done reading "Superpower Suicide" 2 mins ago: https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide
On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

Thinking about...
Show threadGokul Das

@bms48 @nyc I wonder what their end game is. They commit far too many mistakes for me to accept that this is just hubris and incompetence, rather than a carefully planned act of sabotage.

Meanwhile, I was thinking that while we're in this crisis, we could establish an economic system that doesn't empower these cretins to screw us like this. I started writing down the plan too. No, it's not communism. But something tells me that designing an economic system isn't as simple as engineering! 😆

May 11 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson17h ago
@goku12 @nyc "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming, "James Bond: Goldfinger"
In many ways this is exactly what the RAND Corporation were asked to do during the Cold War, and partly why they built the fricking ARPANET in the first place; don't take my word for it, watch Adam Curtis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
And for a more fun take on it, Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles":
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-invisibles-vol-1-grant-morrison/1000154351
The Century of the Self - Wikipedia

Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson17h ago
@goku12 @nyc And if you want to know part of how the ARPANET was built: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/547625
https://archive.org/details/elementsofnetwor00padl
Show threadGokul Das16h ago
@bms48 @nyc Coincidentally, ARPANET is a part of my commentary on the economic system I mentioned. It was designed to be resilient against the destruction of a few relay nodes, wasn't it? But now we have an unholy mix of distributed and centralized systems that's flaky as hell and designed for a few corps to wring. They did that to every economic resource - energy & power distrib, logistics, retail, transport, computing - the entire bunch. Sometimes I feel that we sleep walked into a trap.
Show threadNadia/Надя/नाडिया/娜迪亚/ نادية15h ago

@goku12 @bms48

I trust 习近平 (Xí Jìnpíng) and Владимир Владимирович Путин (Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin) and سید مجتبی حسینی خامنه‌ای (Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei) and 김정은 (Kim Jong-Un) and Miguel Díaz-Canel and Nicolás Maduro and Tô Lâm more than Peter Thiel or Elon Musk or Donald Trump or Ursula von der Leyen or Emmanuel Macron or Friedrich Merz. Long before the meme came out, I figured out that I was living amongst the baddies. The way that communist social services and lesser wealth inequality and greater racial & gender equality etc. were characterised as threats and negative outcomes relatively swiftly led me to recognise that Reagan calling the USSR the evil empire was the consummate case of every conservative accusation being a confession.

Show threadGokul Das14h ago
@nyc @bms48 Yeah! I wondered why Americans hate socialism and social security so much. Here we would rather spend our tax money saving the life of a poor sick child than bailing out greedy corps. We even have elected communist governments, though we just kicked one out for too much corruption and despotism.
Communism is nice, except for the fact that they always manage to devolve into a dictatorship somehow. I think this is a problem specific to Leninism and its offshoots.
Show threadDr. Bruce Simpson13h ago
@goku12 @nyc I'm all kinds of NON SERVIAM, but it took listening to the words of a lifelong communist political theorist for me to finally decipher what had, in fact, happened to a venture I worked on that got the Silicon Valley VC treatment. The Chinese ended up owning all the assets after the VCs panicked during the sub-prime mortage crisis. How's that for American exceptionalism? How's that working out now, given the US taxpayers and corporate money that went in? 80% of the team were British.
Show threadGokul Das13h ago

@bms48 @nyc We have a political party that's owned by a mid-tier corporation. However, their semi-rural semiliterate voter base manage to kick them to the curb every single time. It's as if they sense trouble from a mile away!

How did the US government and the oligarchs manage to sell corporate welfare and trickle down economics to the US citizenry? It must have been one hell of a sales pitch!