If they didn't have neuroses they wouldn't be extremely powerful tech oligarchs, thats just the way it works.uziq wrote:
i'm more concerned about the neuroses of extremely powerful tech oligarchs.
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What I find interesting about these tech leaders is there no sense of civic duty. Every politician I know tries to wrap what they do in the spirit of civil service. I participated in special education little league today. All of the politicians were there. No doubt many of them are genuine sociopaths but they know enough to package what they do in a respectable wrapper. The Trump era of performative ugliness is just historical strange. It feels like what politics becomes right before disaster.uziq wrote:
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.
You have to admit tech billions buy hot partners.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.
Are you literally gay?RTHKI wrote:
ew
going to assume this is gin-dry sarcasm, because she is horrendous.Dilbert_X wrote:
You have to admit tech billions buy hot partners.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.
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i assume the end goal of amazon is to construct the literal Labyrinth under the domineering gaze of Leviathan.ai. managers will patrol distribution centers in leather pants with the physical signs of the torture they had to endure for promotion proudly shown on their deformed features.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.
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?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.
We can myspace these fuckers - the power is in our hands.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
i assume the end goal of amazon is to construct the literal Labyrinth under the domineering gaze of Leviathan.ai. managers will patrol distribution centers in leather pants with the physical signs of the torture they had to endure for promotion proudly shown on their deformed features.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.
better or worse than thiel's seasteading dream?
The sad part is how many women are going to run after 'that last surgery' in the hope of snagging a billionaire.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.
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.Dilbert_X wrote:
Didn't iphone selfies create the duckface problem in the first place?
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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.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.
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:
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.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.
again, you're just mad about any pushback because you use AI to manage your many sordid affairs.
At least I have affairs to manage. Between the two of us you should be the one with the AI girlfriend. I don't even play video games anymore meanwhile you won't even volunteer in your community. Have you clothed the needy or fed the hungry lately?Do artists work with paint anymore? I guess this is a stupid question. Do they just digitize everything?...
Like Hollywood movies. they've lost something evocative, organic, and true.
