Marco
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It's true that public attitudes about AI are not good and will probably only get worse as we pass through the AI mass adoption bottleneck. But this is mostly because AI people are REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD at PR. Autistic, culturally insulated, self-aggrandizing when they should be modest, timid when they should demonstrate strength... An industry that is, on the one hand, projecting apocalyptic world-spanning power to secure funding, and on the other hand advertising itself as a twee suburban/domestic lifestyle improvement product. Totally schizophrenic. Exacerbated by profoundly weird, uncanny frontmen trapped by ideological/ethical fixations that to most normal people only make them seem even more alien and untrustworthy. This is all fixable if they hired the right people.
El Greco, "View and Plan of Toledo" (1608).
Mo Gawdat, ex-CBO Google: For the first time, we may see massive unemployment (30%-50%) not from crisis, but because machines outperform human labor. Capitalism could come to an end in his perspective. That cuts to the core of capitalism: a system built on hiring labor to produce and sell at a profit. If production moves toward near-zero cost, labor arbitrage disappears, and with it, the foundation of pricing and markets. But the real paradox is this: capitalism depends not just on production, but on consumption. AI boosts output while removing workers, undermining the very demand the system needs to survive. As intelligence becomes abundant and production cheap, we’re entering a world where work may no longer define value—and where capitalism itself has to evolve or break.
El Greco, "View and Plan of Toledo" (1608).
i'm not joking my supervisor ASKED me to draw "the worm i always draw on my cells" because i didn't last week and all of them fucking died for NO REASON😭😭😭😭
I have gone outside daily for sixteen years with almost no exceptions. Reality is a landfill.
