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The existence of the attention economy demonstrates that your statement is blatantly false. Technology is not for people. It ought to be, but it is not. Techn
by _Algernon_ 3y ago
The existence of the attention economy demonstrates that your statement is blatantly false.
Technology is not for people. It ought to be, but it is not.
Technology exists so that the aristocracy can line their pockets and control the populace more efficiently.
- drdaeman 3y agoGood sir, if we're going for fantasy/conspirological themes, we have to go deeper than this distasteful banality. People and technology and aristocracy are for the memes. It's just one huge anthill where the ideas evolve, living on biological (and then technological) foundations. Power hubs (be it aristocracy or any other form of government) is just a convenient mechanism for spreading ideas - politicians and millionaries are just superspreaders (in their respective ages, but they're losing it to the technological platforms - and of course there's a struggle). So is technology. So are people. It's all an evolutionary process - just notice how designed systems rarely win, nearly always giving to chaotic blind evolution - whatever catches more brainspace truly matters, not what works best. If the memetic winds will blow in a certain direction, LLMs may make us obsolete, but not in the way we think they would. This comment is sponsored by "You think the moon is real?" meme. Sorry (not sorry).