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i dunno, man, i know plenty of highly motivated, driven, ambitious people who aren't psychopaths or social failures. being well-rounded and retaining basic senses of human empathy and decency are laudable aims, actually! singular focus on profit/world-domination/technological monopolies are precisely what get us into these messes, time and time again. i don't think it's particularly difficult or beyond society to muzzle or rein in the evil nerd misfits, either, to be honest. perhaps we need to reintroduce robust bullying in school and demote all this Marvel movie nonsense that makes it seem edgy or in any way interesting to be a social misfit.

Last edited by uziq (2026-05-02 04:29:48)

i think trump's aims and his ideology - what there is of it - is actually fairly mild compared to the 'post-human' future that drug-addled nerds in silicon valley are cooking up.

uziq wrote:

i think trump's aims and his ideology - what there is of it - is actually fairly mild compared to the 'post-human' future that drug-addled nerds in silicon valley are cooking up.

You have to admit tech billions buy hot partners.

ew

RTHKI wrote:

ew

Are you literally gay?

Speaking of soulless people...I am reading a Henry Kissinger book "Diplomacy."

I was walking around Barnes and Noble and saw it in the history section.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Speaking of soulless people...I am reading a Henry Kissinger book "Diplomacy."

I was walking around Barnes and Noble and saw it in the history section.

Wasn't Kissinger a self-promoting con-artist who never really achieved anything and was as gung-ho for war as the rest of the neo-cons?

uziq wrote:

it's almost too blatant how extreme wealth distorts and shrivels the souls of these people. she looked like a pretty regular, outgoing woman when she met him. now she looks like a demon that stepped out of a portal from a clive barker franchise.

The sad part is how many women are going to run after 'that last surgery' in the hope of snagging a billionaire.

Didn't iphone selfies create the duckface problem in the first place?

Dilbert_X wrote:

Didn't iphone selfies create the duckface problem in the first place?

definitely not. people were doing ludicrous poses to camera in the first-wave myspace era. who remembers the boxy emo fringes/bangs and the severe top-down angles making the subject look deep n serious? lol. glad i skipped all of that, in retrospect.

we live in a culture dictated by the visual norms and inducements of advertising, with celebrities as avatars of commerce. beauty magazines have been giving people mental illnesses since like the 1980s.

smartphones likely would never even have gone down the route of developing advanced cameras if this stuff wasn't already rampant. even during my university years, just on the cusp of their widespread proliferation, it was really common for people to carry a digital camera on their person in addition to a (comparatively basic) phone. their merging was no surprise, social media had turned everyone's life into an exhibitionist photo reel a long time before the tech got miniaturised.

Last edited by uziq (2026-05-07 06:30:11)

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Yeah, you shouldn't date your AI. It isn't a real thing and certainly shouldn't be worshipped. But the anti-AI people are asking for trigger warnings for AI digital assets.

Neurotic liberals. That is what it seems like.

people want this because AI is flooding gamespace like it's flooding everything else. just a look at itch.io. ai assets, music, writing, and it's coming into steam too. valve made a rather tolerant choice in wanting this stuff to be accurately labeled. in the past, they've removed games from stores for stolen assets. some platforms for online media are banning ai content altogether.

again, you're just mad about any pushback because you use AI to manage your many sordid affairs.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-05-08 14:26:42)

we are trapped in a 3-5 year doom cycle and there's no way out of it at this point. resources have been committed, cap-ex has been budgeted, the concomitant HR cuts are an inevitability.

it's the 'disruptor' playbook innovated by the likes of amazon, uber, and tesla, and now openAI, viz. run a business at a tremendous loss for years, propped up by VC funding, and hope you can snatch away enough of the market and embed your service in enough essential processes to then become indispensable -- even better if as an appendage of the state.

even all the best financial press are reporting only modest profit increases from AI. many are reporting straight-up losses. the business model doesn't work, for one thing, and the technology, for its all wonders and abilities, still requires heavy babysitting and frequently can fall over in a way that ruins your entire day. that's without even getting into the more abstract stuff about its implications on the cognitive abilities of your workers, who come increasingly to rely on a blackbox oracle for all their answers with little fundamental domain expertise.

we are going to see compulsory AI and mandatory staff cutbacks while this cycle plays out, and it becomes clear that we are in for a market correction of all market corrections. everything will get shitter in the short-term. like, dangerously shitter. nobody is going to 'no thanks' to the AI rollout, not unless you're a genuine industry leader like Apple and have a vault stocked with trillions of dollars and your own closed-garden ecosystem. prepare to say goodbye to lots of skilled, experienced colleagues in the next few years, as everyone tries to muddle on with tools they barely comprehend, wasting thousands of man-hours per year correcting mistakes and trying to fine-tune agents to automate their workflows. joy!

hope everyone enjoys the couple years holiday, at least. take up woodwork. read war & peace. enjoy those hipster craft beers on a beach. the tech-sociopaths and retarded project managers are in control for now.