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This was really hard to do on phone lol.

I’m pretty sure 0 people use it is my thinking

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I think it’s because they’re still trying to get people locked in, or at least feeling like they can’t operate without it.

Twitter must just be more desperate for cash.

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It’s actually incredible what bullshit masters they are. I consider myself a pretty smart, resolved person, but listening to some of these CEOs speak leaves me feeling confused, deflated, and demoralised.

Exactly. I’m sure countless accountants have pointed to that line item before and somehow we still have a CEOs.

People who are so wowed by the incredible generative output of LLMs and can’t wait for them to fix things need to realise this technology is not for them.

Like all nee tech it may cause a slight shakeup in the beginning allowing for a little upward mobility, but eventually big business folds around it until it only works for the owners.

We’ll all just be working more for less, unless something actually changes.

Yes people love a competent seeming authority. In this way the opaque nature of AI becomes a feature rather than a weakness. It just has to seem correct enough and sound authoritative to fulfill that need.

Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity.

I get the feeling that many of us (including myself at times) nurture this notion* that we’re waiting for the “adults” to arrive and save us from what a horrible mess we’ve made because we’re o so awful and can’t have nice things… blah blah bling blah… and so this line of thinking goes.

Anyway, to the sizeable number of people who feel this way it must feel like such a relief that, o finally daddy’s home, and I can stop worrying all the time. When ofc in reality, at best, the LLMs only have the same data we already have, and no AI-informed decisions will ever be followed unless it’s what their owners (as in rich fucks) wanted to do anyway.

Great comment by the way. If you say it was written with AI I may just tear out the last remnants of my hairline lol.

* kind of proto-fascist thinking tbh.

Just reread Brave New World, and you’re spot on. I forgot how consumerism underpinned everything in their society.

It was like a tightly regulated market but in the worst way.

We should’ve had that 50 years ago as an “automation tax” and 100 years ago as a “machine tax.”

All this tooling is just dead labour value that is used (by workers) to extract more and more value from workers and nature. We’ve been being robbed for hundreds of years.

Because it’s not about productivity. It’s about separating people into owners and toilers.

Honestly are you ok? It’s just a webcomic. I’ve been reading them forever and never once got that sense, aside from the fact that he has a webcomic, so yes probably loves attention.

Having trouble seeing what you’re seeing here… though obv it’s fine if you just don’t like the comics.

Wow a real utilitarian

I think I’ve liked all his shit, from the concept-people like “life”, to the creepypastas, to the more introspective stuff, even to the obsession with women / yuri lol.

Yeah the comics don’t go deep, but I like his voice.

Damn that’s good. Yeah kind of like how we often see men as “default people” so if you’re just picturing a person you’re often thinking of a man without realising it - without even gendering them.

Honestly if the US actually had a left wing party that challenged the status quo, I’m sure he’s vapid enough that he might have tried to get his cult of personality going there.

I don’t think it would have gone well for him because he’s actually just a straight up shitty person, but I feel like for an obvious narcissist like him the party lines are just window dressing.

It works because the thing he really wants is validation, and they gave it to him. Now he’ll continue, and come back around their way again soon, I’m sure.