At this point I think the future is your phone on your tv.
It's the path of least resistance for computer illiterate masses.
At this point I think the future is your phone on your tv.
It's the path of least resistance for computer illiterate masses.
I hate the purported FOMO those bastards always promote to wide-eyed numbskulls wanting to be on the cutting edge of anything. Or mobsters wanting to get their money either laundered or splurge onto the most absurd.
That's a fantastic caricature of Zuckerberg.
I still can't believe people bought those stupid monkey digital photos
The moment it was clear they couldn't figure out what the "Next Big Thing" was they started throwing shit at the wall before going "well if we can't find the next best thing, we'll force it on them!"
That's how we got to where we are with AI.
To be left behind is nothing someone should be afraid.
Ageing a really funny experience. As a young person being left behind like that was unthinkable. I'd do anything to not get left behind. Now that I am a lot older I couldn't care less if I get left behind. I've found what makes me happy, I don't need to keep up anymore. It's so freeing.
FOMO comes along a lot when you're younger.
Then you MO a lot, for various reasons, and you realize it's not a big deal.
If you don't MO, then you never develop the FO, and then next thing you know, you're in a FAFO loop.
To be fair, crypto only enabled scams, NFTs imploded because of how useless they are and the metaverse seems like a dystopia to most people. AI on the other hand has changed the way I do my job significantly. It's not just a promise, it's a genuinely powerful tool.
Its not just ___ its ____.
But fr, in academic fields its certainly helpful to have super human pattern recognition. In most fields, however, its just slop generation. Creative fields and now even code are being flooded with garbage and I dont think we'll be able to fix it. Sure, some places are benefiting, but on the whole its just a massive black hole of hand-holding and flooding that we'll be cleaning up for decades.
"It's not just a promise, it's a genuinely powerful tool."
Methinks you've spent too much time with GenAI LLMs or are a bot yourself. "It's not x, it's y"
I don't know, it's probably save me a couple hundred hours so far. Maybe more. It is genuinely incredibly powerful for coding (When used correctly)
Sorry, complete non sequitur, is the Hyperion in your username a Dan Simmons reference?
Nah, the Greek Titan. Worth reading?
I think there are some very cool images, but overall it's not all that deep. I'd recommend Iain M Banks (say, The Algebraist) for an author trying for something similar and hit it out of the park.
cryptos amazing, I can pay people without President Donald J Trump having access to my payment records online
Isn't Trump the self proclaimed crypto president? Isn't crypto the main source of his family's wealth by now?
I've never seen any price displayed in Dogecoin, Safemoon or CumRocket, nor have I ever been offered Shiba, Bitcoin or Monero for anything. It's been almost 20 fucking years and you can't pay shit with crypto. The only thing that works perfectly in crypro is paying bribes to Trump by buying his own shitcoin, which many sketchy rich people have done. No, this is not the salvation you are looking for, it only makes everything worse.
And he can use it to get bribes more easily with the shitcoins they pump out every few months.
a genuinely powerful tool.
As is a hammer. The issue is when you treat the solution to every problem as a nail.
If LLMs weren't a tool to extract knowledge from people and dumb them down while preventing them from accessing wealth and they were environmentally sustainable, then I could see them as a useful tool. I don't want to boil the planet so that an LLM can generate the minutes of yet another unnecessary meeting, I want not to have to hand in minutes of unnecessary meetings.
The metaverse twist was certainly useless and realized in the most uninsipred soulless way, but vr otherwise has some utility and can be entertaining to a niche.
AI as so far realized has some utility, but a handful of asshats are similarly supremely obnoxious about it, and in my experience way more people are being obnoxious about it than it is useful.

This is the future you donβt want to be left behind do you?
Can they just get in their little fucking bunkers already, and we can seal them off? Not many guillotines required, the stupid fucks can corner themselves and rot... much easier
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