Ok, Chomsky, general AI and the singularity are semi-religious mythologies and the idea that computers are speaking to us from some metaphysical dimension is just Nick Land pothead bologna. I agree with that. However, the people pushing the message that self-driving cars will replace trucking and nanobots will replace blood cells and death will be overcome by cryogenic preservation, yatta yatta yatta… that’s coming from boomer tech executives and pump-and-dump hucksters who want to fleece naive retail investors. The people really working with the computers, playing around with the chatbots and image generators are just guys having fun online. They’re engaged in creative work, and this just comes off as pouting about people having fun without you. I don’t think “work” has to have this promise that it will put food on a table or a bridge across a river or turn the lights on. They’re just working on cool things and it gets a lot of attention cause it’s new and interesting and funny when uncensored. But if you’re falling for the boomer tech manager line about how this will move the economy forward then you’re getting the wool pulled over your eyes.
Unfortunately a lot of coders are trannies who aren’t having fun but pretend they are to appear smart and useful and necessary. A lot of them can be cleared out. Unfailingly, they cannot connect what they are doing with anything except a crude imitation of the spontaneity and jouissance of unencumbered human creation
Ok, Chomsky, general AI and the singularity are semi-religious mythologies and the idea that computers are speaking to us from some metaphysical dimension is just Nick Land pothead bologna. I agree with that. However, the people pushing the message that self-driving cars will replace trucking and nanobots will replace blood cells and death will be overcome by cryogenic preservation, yatta yatta yatta… that’s coming from boomer tech executives and pump-and-dump hucksters who want to fleece naive retail investors. The people really working with the computers, playing around with the chatbots and image generators are just guys having fun online. They’re engaged in creative work, and this just comes off as pouting about people having fun without you. I don’t think “work” has to have this promise that it will put food on a table or a bridge across a river or turn the lights on. They’re just working on cool things and it gets a lot of attention cause it’s new and interesting and funny when uncensored. But if you’re falling for the boomer tech manager line about how this will move the economy forward then you’re getting the wool pulled over your eyes.
Yes, nerds writing computer code all day is "having fun" uh huh
Unfortunately a lot of coders are trannies who aren’t having fun but pretend they are to appear smart and useful and necessary. A lot of them can be cleared out. Unfailingly, they cannot connect what they are doing with anything except a crude imitation of the spontaneity and jouissance of unencumbered human creation