The odds are non-zero that someone has argued with their own toaster.

It’s the end of the personal computer era. Who’d have thought it was going to be so soon. Or at all.

The restrictions are so they can gradually institute tiered access fees. This is how the industry becomes profitable.

I made the discussion threads for a few shows in their early seasons from around 2010. There wasn’t automation to do it back then.

There’s always that guy, usually American, who regales on how they lived in China or some where in Asia for some years. Blog posting as if it makes them an authority on anything really. I can’t help but picture them thinking themselves as an 18th century frontier man who sailed across the oceans and walked across vast distances to journey to the Orient. And now he’s returned to tell everyone the tales of the far away mysterious lands.

As if nobody else has ever got on a plane and traveled some where else in the world before. As if the internet isn’t full of people from around the world who know much more than they do. I’m sure this way of talking captivates audiences in their rural America town where farthest anyone else has traveled is one town over, and so they’ll readily believe the fantastical stories of a traveling caravan of Siamese twins, hirsute women, and other such attractions.

Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months

Not as catching as “bubble burst”. LLMs have proven their use. It’s here to stay. There’s a lot of superfluous stuff, but people are coping if they think the bubble is going to burst and their jobs will all go back to how the were.

It’s more than SpaceX and Anthropic. The entire market is financial mutually assured destruction. Anyone who has any sort of invested savings pretty much relies on the index funds in some way. If we eat the rich, we don’t get to walk away happy with full bellies. We’re going down with them.

Investors want repeats of the iPhone and social media revolution. They won’t get it by making tweaks to the smartphone or social media platforms. Nothing will stop them from trying, but all of this is just spinning the wheels.

Social media were already doing this with more relatively more primitive tech. The advent of social media mass control got me thinking. All the political and social strife. It’s only the beginning. The 20th century was marked by conventional warfare and terrifying new weapons.

The 21st century conflict is going to be something we’ve never seen before. Not unlike 20th century global conflict ushering in new forms of weaponry. We don’t know what the nuclear bomb of the 21st century will be. It will likely be something like this. Maybe we won’t be fearing an atomic bomb. Maybe people themselves will turn into violent mobs or something. What terrifying things will come out of using the world as live psychological experiments with zero ethics.

The main product they’re pushing is Muse. It’s a glorified Bonzi Buddy. A chat bot with customizable avatars. That’s it. That’s the selling point. They’re screwed unless they have an enterprise LLM product. I don’t know if they do.

Facebook remade the world. It was a one in a generation thing. Zuck isn’t escaping the allegations that he was in the right place at the right time for that. He’s not going to catch lightning in a bottle twice.

30 is the narrative online where you’re pretty much 100 years old. They’re convinced once you hit 30 you might as well be her grandpa. The manosphere propaganda feeds off ageism insecurity.

The smoking gun for me is how much they’ve been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.

They completely memoryholed the_donald.

I thought this was a thing everyone was concerned about…

We’ve already seen a similar phenomenon happen with social media. It made everyone more stupider. Everyone uses social media so individually one person can opt out but the whole world is revolving around it.

There’s a travel Youtuber I used to watch who goes around to places in the US to “just ask questions” to the locals. (read: looks for conservative opinions)

He has a couple of videos where he goes to natural disaster affected areas. The locals said in the Trump years the government provided more support than the Biden administration. I’m finding that kind of hard to believe considering the news stories seem to say the opposite.

Polls might go one way or the other on certain issues, but the GOP has done a good job of psychologically priming their base to reflexively default voting for them in the end.

They aren’t meant to be the star of the show. Their purpose is to be in the crowd and agitate. They’re the devil that whispers people’s ear.

Bots would have proven to the a failure if a botnet went down and culture wars vanished. Their intention is to manipulate people. Not to wholesale substitute to the population.

Besides the name itself seems to go over heads. Bot farms don’t operate out of a centralized server. They’re not even bots literally. These operations are farmed out to locations around the world. Sometimes they’re real human trolls.

They’re in rapid technological development cycles that’s reminiscent of the late 20th century USA. Often producing hilariously odd or bad gadgets, which people take as evidence that China sucks. As it’s said when it’s anything not-China, “you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet”.

Nice job, but are you Rosenzweig level? Because booting the kernel on iPhones has been done before. Getting a usable software stack is a whole other territory.

Tech evangelists rely heavily on logical fallacies. False equivalence is one of the main ones. “A thing happened before therefore this tech is nothing to worry about”. They’re redirecting the argument to bait people to try to prove why calculators are bad. But of course the past already happened and nobody is going prove otherwise.

They’ll ignore the rules like they always do for the violent right.