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The real tragedy of this era of technology is that even if an important new invention did work as well as imagined in sci fi, it would be so compromised by surv
by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
The real tragedy of this era of technology is that even if an important new invention did work as well as imagined in sci fi, it would be so compromised by surveillance capitalism and patterns of enshittification that no one paying attention would want to come to rely on it.
- roughly 3y agoAs Ted Chiang put it, most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoThat's a good point. I don't worry about AI turning into any kind of movie supervillain.