Three (3) times today I have hopped on Mastodon and 3 (three) times I have seen a different version of exactly the same thing: a solid economic take on why the vampire squids hyping “AI” are terrible coupled to a wildly underthought to borderline incoherent philosophical/technical interpretation that the good critique didn’t even depend on. Twice this happened and then one more whole separate time.
I can’t come to dinner yet, babe, I’m pattern-matching that this is a tech hype bubble and then regurgitating the kinds of things people say about tech hype bubbles with only a symbolic-level understanding in order to own the LLMs.
I wish I wish I wish we could see a few more commentators able to say that (1) we are getting exploited, railroaded, and played by the usual forces of capital in a whole new way here – without coupling it to the, to me, extremely extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmeeeeeeeellllyyyyy bad/evil take that (2) the only real thing in the world is a kind of truth that physically resides in the heads of Homo sapiens.
“The tulip mania is an irrational speculative bubble that will collapse because tulips are not actually beautiful; beauty happens in the soul, you misguided fools, therefore tulips are actually very ugly, QED” I write in Antwerp in 1635.
You think I’m off on my weird hobbyhorse again but I assure you this is already doing big numbers on early modern Netherlandish Mastodon. All the most respected scholars of critical tulip studies are starring it.
@vruba Fighting LLMs with LLM behaviour, perfect.
@vruba the pervasive adherence to a concept of human exceptionalism that's fundamentally indistinguishable from dualism is so weird to me but the majority also claims to believe in imaginary friends in the sky, so… 🤷🏻♂️
Think through your arguments before you hit send, you cowards.