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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘The drive to explore’ is from Star Trek.

  The US retold its origin story (the expansion West) through Westerns in the 50’s.

  Particularly because the US won the space race, tv, and Hollywood, retold a future origin story expanding into space. Many American people I come into contact with online really seem to have bought it, even though Star Trek portrays a communist society. The cognitive dissonance is on a national scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The future represented in this image has little chance of actually happening: it is the mythology of fossil fuel powered capitalist society, which has expanded past the planet’s environmental limits but needs to expand somewhere, or admit it is at the end of its useful life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This turned out a little bit long. I wonder if anyone will bother reading it.

  A lot of this so-called ‘bubble’ is based on capital expenditure in support of a technology that probably doesn’t have the capability AI company ceo’s claim, but does have fascinating, and in terms of how society is currently arranged possibly extremely harmful, potential.

  I know what ai companies have done, and what they are likely to do, in the pursuit of profit is shit; I would say that is a capitalism and fascist billionaire issue, rather than a tech issue but ymmv.

  And there is the energy consumption problem. I think as ceo’s and tech broligarchs would privately say ‘compare the energy consumed by my datacentre to the energy consumed by the workers it has replaced and you will see it is fairly efficient…’ (I am saying what I expect they think, not what I agree with).

  The concern that the economy currently has all of its eggs in the ai basket seems reasonable. Any concerns regarding the economic disruption of an ai bubble popping is nothing compared to what could happen if 50%+ white collar workers are laid off. We saw the number of essential workers needed per 1 million workers during covid. It wasn’t many. Most jobs exist because the people exist to do them, corralled into the pyramidal structure of capitalism, where money trickles upwards. We might enter an era where the people exist but the jobs do not.

  Anyway, I see this ‘bubble’ a bit more like the dotcom bubble, which didn’t kill the web when it popped. The gpu’s this capital expenditure has paid for are going to continue to be used, even as this economic period shakes itself out. They aren’t just going to evaporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The ‘Despite’ in the title should be ‘Due To’.