It must be confusing — upsetting, even! — to hear that somebody is willing to accurately and vociferously tear into a tech industry largely controlled by people with no regard for their users or workers, who are willing to bathe their products in mediocrity all because it’s the thing that everybody else is doing.

I love you Ed

The heavy users of AI are even dumber than the CEOs, at least the CEOs are getting rich.

you mean like musicals and puppets and the agenda where the future is only doughy women running everything?

I love this, honestly it is a gem.

You hilariously misjudge the immense power of music, theater, puppet makers and doughy women.

Interesting because my biggest regret with Strange New Worlds is old toxic Star Trek fans on the internet who are obsessed with bashing anything new in Star Trek.

what infrastructure will the ai bubble leave behind when it collapses?

An understandable hatred and mistrust of Silicon Valley tech types and technology in general within people.

Fucking incompetent idiots

Google is a perfect example that the idea that capitalism is inherently efficient is an absurd fantasy.

Google represents an absolutely massive waste of talent and all of it is focused on making the world a markedly worse place.

Can we stop repeating Anthropic’s fear mongering about AI? They are just trying to prop up their stock price and keep the bubble from popping a little longer.

ACAB

Who cares anymore though? Microsoft burned all their bridges to places where the kinds of people who get excited about this kind of thing hang out. There is no button they can press to unburn those bridges and no gurantee, indeed little likelihood they can rebuild them when better bridges have been built to better places in the meantime.

Windows phone was great, what killed it was Microsoft’s clueless management.

I am shocked!

They could have at least have done a compromise where the company is Zoox and the vehicle is the anthellae, The Zoox Anthellae sounds kinda cool to me.

Aesthetically maybe, but that is a hollow fleeting sensation that is immediately suffocated by the fact that cars ruin cities no matter how “smart” they are.

yawn self driving cars are so boring, all they do is allow taxi companies to fire their drivers and treat their employees worse, how is this exciting? How is it futuristic? How does it improve and evolve cities?

AI is so dumb but at least we have Ed Zitron.

I propose a solution. Invest in unmanned surface vehicles to carry duplicates of mail and require every piece of mail sent to sailors to have a duplicate of which randomly is selected the actual copy of mail to send to the real navy ship. Collect duplicates of the mail and send it on unmanned surface vehicles to sail around and pretend to be navy ships while gathering surveillance data.

Then even if someone thinks they have planted a tracker on a ship successfully they will still be second guessing themselves over whether they are tracking the real ship or not.

Im so sad

It makes me feel like when people insist it would take an astronomical amount of effort to move their community off of discord.

I know it will but you are worse than wasting your time putting that decision off because it will limit your community in ways you cannot even perceive yet.

Stop wasting everyone’s time, don’t build houses on top of destabilized sinking mud and expect people to move in, and if they do now you have a MUCH bigger problem on your hands than the challenge of building a new building since you have to convince people the old building which looks fine is not safe.

I would say that poor foundational choices are also the enemy of progress too.