EvergreenGuru

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on Technology Is Over · c/hackernews · 2 pts · 5d

We really have hit the final form for many technologies. I remember the reviewer, Marques Brownlee saying that we’ve reached ā€œpeakā€ smartphone. Our devices are now in their final form, with only small tweaks from year to year, like better batteries, faster chips, more ram. But the interface, dimensions, etc. are set.

Very much like a car gets better mileage or safety features, but the underlying tech hit its peak and the most recent change for automobiles was the emergence of the SUV in the 1990s, a generation ago.

AI is peak internet search. Instead of searching for a page, giving that page traffic and funding it through ads or affiliates, AI destroys the source by copying and starving the website of traffic. The search becomes an encyclopedia of information delivered as if written by a person. Nice for a quick question, even good enough to write that essay you’ve been putting off. But not good enough to build a new electrical grid and drain the local aquifer.

I prefer to think that MAGA is right, that Trump was sent by god, which kept that bullet inches from his head.

(Un)fortunately I diverge from his supporters in that I believe God wants to destroy America (the Great Satan).