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Over 10, if you’re a trucker.

They never, ever seem to think about that.

And y'know the biggest of techbros taking a literal chainsaw to the state and stealing all of our information

Exactly this.

Tbh, the pushback actually seems extremely mild by that context although I may just be insulated from it.

There’s also just been this aggressive cultishness to it that I’ve found incredibly off putting. My first memory of AI as A Thing was some article about an engineer or something at like Google who became convinced they had created a god. Like, no, I don’t want the new god managing my inbox.

the c-suite at least has been kinda poisoned by group chat brainworms and fundamental attribution error

Just the whole "we're better than you because we're into the Better Than You shit" attitude. It would also explain why they specifically target people with strong interests in other areas, like artists.

An awful lot of covid relief money found its way to VCs and that really turbocharged the douchebaggery.

Maybe I wouldn't be so snarly about the subject if I hadn't been telling someone about my writing and their first reaction was "you should quit now because AI will do that soon"

Yes, it’s been brewing for a long time - I’ve been covering tech ethics/evil topics since 2010 - but it really hit a new peak of insanity in 2020 imo.

They knew (and know) that accountability and transparency will lead to the breakup of big tech and of the rigged betting game that is Silicon Valley venture capital. They also face criminal liability, not just in the US but in most liberal democracies.

I love technology, but I hate Silicon Valley and techbros :P

I think this is beyond the tech bro level, there was at least a requirement of some technical skills and understanding of the subject. These maga people are just about power and money, the tech is just a tool for them and that's how they will lose. A good response is to strengthen open tech

Yeah this. If those boneheads would shut up nobody would resent them & they could enjoy their money. But they want to dominate us all. I don’t think they’ll succeed. Mainly I want to be left alone to do my own thing without constantly hearing how an AI chat bot can do it better.

The fact that they're cozy with Trump doesn't help their case much either.

ive seen it more than once

Every tech pitch deck to vc’s has a line going up and to the right and going past $1Bn in revenue. In almost every single case, the “area under the curve” in those graphs are American jobs. The AI pitch decks do the same but go past $1Tr. Their “area under the curve” is all white collar jobs

The second part of that quote is usually omitted; information wants to be free, and information also wants to be expensive. The people who said them knew the contradiction.

Oh man, I haven't seen AbFab in years. Wonder how it holds up?

Time for the Butlerian Jihad as course correction.

Some things, like toilets and vibrators, don't need to be hooked up to palantir.

It would explain a lot

Oops! All Grifts!!

Maybe people shouldn’t listen to delusional freaks

After years of hearing from them about the cultish predictions of the revolution that crypto and the metaverse will bring in I don't know why I should believe them about AI. It all sounds like a pitch from a salesman who is desperate to keep the money flowing

This is exactly it for me, honestly. I have a hard time focusing on fun tech things going on, because of *waves hands and twitches* all of that.

“CatPiss Man, here to save the day!”