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@vl_tone @gifs_bot ah yes this was a sample image for Atari ST NeoChrome iirc? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEOchrome
NEOchrome - Wikipedia

@maya if i get that many i'll go live in a barrel
@emenel @clayote @aparrish [sam altman, super flippantly after thinking for approximately 2 seconds] well we could just get chatgpt to transition us to a command economy
@davidgerard if the global shortages cause this thing to not ship then there probably will be a few million gamers who'll be ready to pack the VCs' asses up into the unused cases and launch em
"powerful enough systems always muddle through even the biggest catastrophes" - usually, yes. but the punctuation marks of history are the moments when they don't, and everything changes.
@mcc obviously the ultimate lifeform is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlJJdh_0Kc
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency - Squirrel Moment

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@mcc @aparrish definitely yes. a giant machine that drinks the alienated labor of an entire planet's worth of knowledge & culture workers, synthesizes and hyperconcentrates profits, and tries to re-consume its own waste products. a microcosm for the global-historic Machine Centipede as it lounges on the veranda overlooking extinction.
[archive.org link to a series of substack articles, apologies for that but it's not directly giving them eyeballs] https://web.archive.org/web/20260404015324/https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
it's important to remember that systems do degrade and reach breaking points. companies never put out press releases when they hit these "it's fucked beyond all hope" moments, their tendency is to plow through regardless of costs. but reality is asserting itself in this story and so many like it. we can't plan against the specifics but we can strategize.
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Axel’s Substack
@mcc @aparrish (obviously that "machine that destroys itself" is merely a subfeature of the larger capitalist system, so it's hard to say where the boundaries between that macrosystem and something like genAI start and end, and in most cases it doesn't matter.)