I wouldn't have guessed decades ago that the greatest and grandest material promise (setting aside the usual nerd shit about godlike waifu mommy bangmaids that exceed human consciousness but are also somehow unconditionally loving of the nerds and maybe wont kill their nerd masters) of some up and coming hyped up venture capital thirsty technology is that it might somehow someday solve the problems that it is making worse, and that by making them that much worse that surely those worsening problems would get solved. galaxy-brain

The next self-described "leftist" that concern trolls on this site about how everyone needs to stop complaining, stop being "emotional" or "afraid" and come up with (always unspecified by the glazer) "solutions" that align with the expansion and amplification of the problem as desired by terminal stage capitalists will be reminded by me that their belief system aligns with fucking former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem.

My disgust for that take is vast and maybe infinite.*

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Just like in the cyberpunkerinos! so-true fire

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    23 days ago

    surely the cause of all these problems will be the savior of all these problems

    Many such cases, and those smug credulous fucks will likely show up soon and talk about how it's "emotional" (emotions bad, amirite le Reddit?) to be upset at the sheer fucking hubris of this belief system while they smugly await salvation from the ever-expanding treat printer industrial complex.