Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.
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Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.
Generative AI is, for the most part, porn you can post on LinkedIn.
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Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.
Generative AI is, for the most part, porn you can post on LinkedIn.
I don’t think the AI bubble will burst soon btw.. businesses still go on about blockchain and NFTs.
A large part of business nowadays is shareholder value, and a lot of people don’t give a fuck about if something is valuable: they care if it is perceived as valuable. The AI exploit is essentially printing free money based on hopium justified through copium.
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I don’t think the AI bubble will burst soon btw.. businesses still go on about blockchain and NFTs.
A large part of business nowadays is shareholder value, and a lot of people don’t give a fuck about if something is valuable: they care if it is perceived as valuable. The AI exploit is essentially printing free money based on hopium justified through copium.
Eventually, though, the fun train will stop and the economic impact will hit when people realise writing some Python and generative meeting minutes isn’t worth 80% of the entire global economy and the planet’s environment. Also, historically GPUs aren’t a good investment.
So all the AI firms will take the economic hit, right? Nah. Microsoft etc will be fine. The losses will be socialised to you. Eg that Microsoft Office license will double in cost, your org will pay it and then lay you off etc.
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Eventually, though, the fun train will stop and the economic impact will hit when people realise writing some Python and generative meeting minutes isn’t worth 80% of the entire global economy and the planet’s environment. Also, historically GPUs aren’t a good investment.
So all the AI firms will take the economic hit, right? Nah. Microsoft etc will be fine. The losses will be socialised to you. Eg that Microsoft Office license will double in cost, your org will pay it and then lay you off etc.
It’s isn’t a Luddite point of view btw. I use gen AI. Those cringe incident songs? AI. The vuln scanning I do? Vibe coded with AI.
Do I think it will be the next Industrial Revolution? Fuck no. The US has basically generated a vibe economy with it.
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It’s isn’t a Luddite point of view btw. I use gen AI. Those cringe incident songs? AI. The vuln scanning I do? Vibe coded with AI.
Do I think it will be the next Industrial Revolution? Fuck no. The US has basically generated a vibe economy with it.
The 19th-century Luddites were highly skilled artisans and workers who were fighting for their livelihoods and fair pay.
They specifically targeted machinery that was used to undermine their skills and economic security.
The Luddites' fight was against the social and economic impacts of new technology on workers, not against the technology itself. They were a powerful labor movement that used direct action to show they were a force to be reckoned with.
The popular view of Luddites being an irrational reaction to inevitable beneficial changes is a classic example of history being written and re-written by the winners.
The historical parallels are there to be seen. History might not repeat but it does occasionally like to improvise on an older tune.
Disclaimer: Partly written with the assistance of an LLM.
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