@fullsquare@techtakes Au contraire, AI bubble isn't over until Larry Ellison fails to return to hell in time to have his meatsack repaired, so it falls apart in public to reveal his inner Beelzebub.
@djb@dgerard It' could be undermined by Linus's tolerance of AI slop in the kernel, and by other upstream projects accepting LLM code, notably (to me) vim and pandoc.
The unknown original provenance of code generated by LLMs means that many open source projects may soon be in violation of their own license terms.
@Soyweiser Last timer I looked (probably around 2001) I seem to recall Kurzweil was saying AGI and brain uploading by 2025. He's basically selling Christian evangelical premillennialism, minus the Baby Jeezus.
@samvines@techtakes It's also missing the point that the original GMO crops that were being promoted were engineered by Monsanto to survive being drenched in Glyphosate, a probably-carcinogenic pesticide, to produce a monopoly in those crop plants for Monsanto. Ugly side of capitalism.
(If they'd led with golden rice, the reaction would have been different.)
It also arrived in the late stages of the BSE cull in the UK, at a time when food supply anxiety was at an all-time high.
@gerikson@techtakes Technical nit-pick: "American hard science fiction space opera like Timelike Infinity is also influential"— Timelike Infinity was written by Steven Baxter who is *very* English indeed. Best contextualized as mid-period Interzone generation hitting its imperial phase.
@Amoeba_Girl@techtakes I guess the private equity bros behind this one were reading Larry Niven's "A Gift from Earth" when they were teens (seems more likely than Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go".
@BioMan I blame Konstantin Tskiolkovskii! Although to be fair, he got it from his teacher, Nikolai Federovitch Federov, grandfather of Cosmism and one of the wellsprings of TESCREAL ... which brings us full-circle to the AI bros again.
@fullsquare Lead poisoning was *ubiquitous* in the USA until the late 1970s/early 1980s, due to tetraethyl lead in petrol. Everywhere around the world experienced a sharp drop in violent crime 15-20 years after it was phased out.
But mercury poisoning is more visibly lethal: see also Karen Wetterhahn:
@gerikson@sneerclub Needy Amin is a great coinage, but can I suggest Idiot Amin instead? (The resemblance between Trump and Idi Amin is glaringly obvious now if you stand their rhetoric and style of government side-by-side. Only significant difference is that Trump started with more.)
@isaackuo@Landa@V0ldek@techtakes AI is so 2026, Bro, to get ahead of the game for 2027 you need to pivot to Quantum Computing, ideally on the blockchain in an orbital data centre.
Bro we all run on tank tracks these days, we're all absolutely crushing it in the workplace Bro shoes are so pre-AI, you can't grow forever all the way to upload heaven on a sole
@gerikson I hung out with Neal a few times and he struck me as the kind of twisty-minded guy who's unlikely to fall for the simplistic nostrums that typify authoritarian thinkers. Conservative (with some libertarian in his background, I suspect) but not hammer-make-square-peg-fit-in-round-hole stupid. (Disclaimer: I last saw him about a decade ago.)
This kind of ROI to me stinks of late-stages Ponzi scheme—the smart money has made its pile, but they need to keep pulling in the rubes to keep the illusion of growth running.
@smiletolerantly Iain was thinking of Elon Musk when he wrote the character Joliet Veppers in "Surface Detail". That's all you need to know about his opinion of techbro billionaires. And that was back in 2009-ish. Musk was already toxic.
@fullsquare@techtakes If you want a TV show about billionaires getting their just desserts, just intone six words at the start of the intro narrative: "After the year of the revolutions …"
@fullsquare @techtakes Au contraire, AI bubble isn't over until Larry Ellison fails to return to hell in time to have his meatsack repaired, so it falls apart in public to reveal his inner Beelzebub.
@djb @dgerard It' could be undermined by Linus's tolerance of AI slop in the kernel, and by other upstream projects accepting LLM code, notably (to me) vim and pandoc.
The unknown original provenance of code generated by LLMs means that many open source projects may soon be in violation of their own license terms.
@Soyweiser Last timer I looked (probably around 2001) I seem to recall Kurzweil was saying AGI and brain uploading by 2025. He's basically selling Christian evangelical premillennialism, minus the Baby Jeezus.
@rook I am immensely proud that some years ago I made a list VD blogged of "ten SF publishing people whose chromed skulls I want as desk ornaments".
It's good to be hated by the *worst* people. And it's totes on brand for him to be filling his empty mind with AI slop.
@samvines @techtakes It's also missing the point that the original GMO crops that were being promoted were engineered by Monsanto to survive being drenched in Glyphosate, a probably-carcinogenic pesticide, to produce a monopoly in those crop plants for Monsanto. Ugly side of capitalism.
(If they'd led with golden rice, the reaction would have been different.)
It also arrived in the late stages of the BSE cull in the UK, at a time when food supply anxiety was at an all-time high.
@gerikson @techtakes Technical nit-pick: "American hard science fiction space opera like Timelike Infinity is also influential"— Timelike Infinity was written by Steven Baxter who is *very* English indeed. Best contextualized as mid-period Interzone generation hitting its imperial phase.
@Amoeba_Girl @techtakes I guess the private equity bros behind this one were reading Larry Niven's "A Gift from Earth" when they were teens (seems more likely than Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go".
@BioMan I blame Konstantin Tskiolkovskii! Although to be fair, he got it from his teacher, Nikolai Federovitch Federov, grandfather of Cosmism and one of the wellsprings of TESCREAL ... which brings us full-circle to the AI bros again.
@fullsquare Lead poisoning was *ubiquitous* in the USA until the late 1970s/early 1980s, due to tetraethyl lead in petrol. Everywhere around the world experienced a sharp drop in violent crime 15-20 years after it was phased out.
But mercury poisoning is more visibly lethal: see also Karen Wetterhahn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen/_Wetterhahn
@mawhrin Sadly, they exist. And there are too many of them! I guess this means we should kill people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the—
HEY WAIT
@gerikson @sneerclub Needy Amin is a great coinage, but can I suggest Idiot Amin instead? (The resemblance between Trump and Idi Amin is glaringly obvious now if you stand their rhetoric and style of government side-by-side. Only significant difference is that Trump started with more.)
@isaackuo @Landa @V0ldek @techtakes AI is so 2026, Bro, to get ahead of the game for 2027 you need to pivot to Quantum Computing, ideally on the blockchain in an orbital data centre.
@V0ldek @techtakes
Bro we all run on tank tracks these days, we're all absolutely crushing it in the workplace Bro shoes are so pre-AI, you can't grow forever all the way to upload heaven on a sole
(Pops another Special K)
@gerikson I hung out with Neal a few times and he struck me as the kind of twisty-minded guy who's unlikely to fall for the simplistic nostrums that typify authoritarian thinkers. Conservative (with some libertarian in his background, I suspect) but not hammer-make-square-peg-fit-in-round-hole stupid. (Disclaimer: I last saw him about a decade ago.)
@Architeuthis As I keep shouting, Transhumanism (and the whole of TESCREAL) is essentially just Christianity in atheist drag.
@CinnasVerses @techtakes
This kind of ROI to me stinks of late-stages Ponzi scheme—the smart money has made its pile, but they need to keep pulling in the rubes to keep the illusion of growth running.
@smiletolerantly Ah, somebody must have boosted it into my timeline! Annoying.
@smiletolerantly Iain was thinking of Elon Musk when he wrote the character Joliet Veppers in "Surface Detail". That's all you need to know about his opinion of techbro billionaires. And that was back in 2009-ish. Musk was already toxic.
@fullsquare @techtakes If you want a TV show about billionaires getting their just desserts, just intone six words at the start of the intro narrative: "After the year of the revolutions …"