It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
Expecting more novelty than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe.
But a world we can shape to our will - or to our extravagant expectations - is a shapeless world.
Daniel J.Boorstin, "The Image", 1961
An Interesting Analysis by @pluralistic of the Amazon Marketplace Case in the EU, and the Changes to (maybe) Come.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon
#Amazon #DMA #EU #Enshitification
@_dm
Here's a picture of graphs from David Graebers "Bullshit Jobs".
They are showing how some economists today have added a fourth domain to the classical division of the economy (agriculture/industry/service).
This fourth division, they call FIRE (for finance, insurance, real estate) is categorized as the Information domain.
As it can be seen on the (bad and french) picture of the graphs here, this information domain is the most part of what we usually call service.
Now let's think a second. How much of an impact AI will have on this so called "information domain" and their capacity (AND BIAS) to swallow the already immense chunk of data (information) they possess ?
Look at the graph again, look at the impact they have on the economy and let it sink...
Late edit: If the enthusiasm of billionaire tech bro should always be taken as it is, an amusement, the article is underestimating the presence of software in our every tasks with the will to belittle AI.
Reminds me of the 90s when we started to throw raves with a pack a friends saying to everyone "Techno is the music of the future 😁😜"
We were over enthusiast, but today it has infused a large part of the contemporary music.
@jeff @Ravencanada @rvawonk @DocScranton
I see, I see. So let me unpack and tell me if I understood that one well.
So you're saying that attacking grid ia fine because it's supposedly already been done by antifa ?
To that assertion, for which you give absolutely no evidence, your only explanation is that the world media are clearly biased by liberal thinking, therefore not reporting on it.
But now, as it is right wing extremists, it is being reported.
It is funny, because I just read something super relevant to this conversation.
Sorry for late edit :
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/03/05/marshall-fox-new-archeology
The story of the deep archeology of fox news.
This feels like the start of a very long thread. 😆
