I read an article a while back highlighting how many “tech bro” products seem to be about eliminating human interaction, like grocery or meal deliveries, or self-checkout in stores. There is a convenience factor for these things at times, of course, but with the way many of these executives seem to be pushing exclusively using their services and having zero direct interactions with other humans it starts to raise questions about perhaps their own interpersonal skills and why they want to eliminate the human interaction. This feels like more of the same.
I mean, that sounds obvious to me after that one : https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/
Nevermind having to talk to human people to buy food, the zuck thinks your friends should be AI too.
He also thought his Metaverse was going to be a thing.
It will be, but not necessarily under his control. And it’s going to organically grow over the long haul.
SocialVR is one of the most compelling uses for VR.
Only people who own headsets think that.
Oh, I didn’t realize I was advocating for SocialVR to an antisocialite. Forgive me.
Anyway, this is why headsets need to get much much better. So more people own headsets.
Sigh, at some point we are gonna have to tell these AI fucks to take a hike.
It has many valuable use cases. Replacing human interaction is not one of them.
Right, and we are trying to use it for everything but the useful stuff
Well, the idiot c-suite execs certainly are.
Dystopia.
I'm going to be cringe and reference 1984.
The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'
I see there's another big push to distance us from AI as some kind of boogie man.
Why do we keep falling for the shit
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