Inevitabilism is what I tend to call it. I've seen it preached about cryptocurrency, about VR-being-fucking-everywhere-and-mandatory-to-function-in-society-by-like-2018, about the Metaverse(tm), about NFTs.
It's generally presented as "this new bazinga hype thing is the future and you must accept it otherwise you will be crushed by it like the unwashed barbarian Luddite that you are" smugposting. It isnt even about what is good about the new thing, only that it's an unstoppable STEM juggernaut because civilization itself functions exactly like a Civ game's le science le progress bars in one strict linear direction.
My favorite bit is going “so you just want to hand AI over to them???” as if you must believe in the sentience of chatbots to make use of LLMs.
Believing hard enough in the sapience of the chatbot waifu will make the chatbot waifu fight for @zeze@lemm.ee sempai and enthrone them at the top of the ruling class hierarchy in the future Singularity(tm) world order to come, just like in the treats!
So much non-sequituring and goalpost shifting going on here. And I hate to be all euphoric here, but it’s literally the textbook definition of strawmanning. Like, wow, you must be winning when you’re evading the question to attack a completely different issue and running victory laps around that. What an obvious and cynical attempt to slip in personal beliefs under the guise of leftism.
That straw position about how we supposedly believe that the power of love and friendship will always overcome the cold uncaring machines was really fucking rich. I mean sure that'd be kind of fun to watch in a cartoon and a much better time than whatever masturbatory Singularity(tm) power fantasy that that jackoff subscribes to.
Inevitabilism is what I tend to call it. I've seen it preached about cryptocurrency, about VR-being-fucking-everywhere-and-mandatory-to-function-in-society-by-like-2018, about the Metaverse(tm), about NFTs.
It's generally presented as "this new bazinga hype thing is the future and you must accept it otherwise you will be crushed by it like the unwashed barbarian Luddite that you are" smugposting. It isnt even about what is good about the new thing, only that it's an unstoppable STEM juggernaut because civilization itself functions exactly like a Civ game's le science le progress bars in one strict linear direction.
Believing hard enough in the sapience of the chatbot waifu will make the chatbot waifu fight for @zeze@lemm.ee sempai and enthrone them at the top of the ruling class hierarchy in the future Singularity(tm) world order to come, just like in the treats!
That straw position about how we supposedly believe that the power of love and friendship will always overcome the cold uncaring machines was really fucking rich. I mean sure that'd be kind of fun to watch in a cartoon and a much better time than whatever masturbatory Singularity(tm) power fantasy that that jackoff subscribes to.