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> like putting lipstick on a pig. More like building a house in a bottomless swamp. The moment you finish it starts sinking, so you build a new floor, but it j
by Ygg2 8mo ago
> like putting lipstick on a pig.
More like building a house in a bottomless swamp. The moment you finish it starts sinking, so you build a new floor, but it just makes it heavier, and speed up the sinking speed.
- gessha 8mo agoIs there an equivalent to filling up the swamp and reaching bedrock because my optimist brain is looking for it
- conartist6 8mo agoThe value of AI output only decreases day to day as people do what there is to do with it. Soon if it can make something it will be making it for the 10th time instead of the 1st. So yeah, we will hit rock bottom for sure. Eventually the value of anything that is genuinely new will rocket back up because we've spent so many years imitating imitations.
- Windchaser 8mo agoMuch of Amsterdam and Florence is built on logs. Basically, just drive a bunch of poles in the ground until they "fill up" the swamp enough to create a stable platform. The anoxic nature of the boggy water greatly slows the decomposition of the logs. There's definitely a metaphor, here. You don't have to completely fill the swamp, just fill it enough, with enough stable pieces to create a platform you can build on.
- cenamus 8mo agoBut you can orchestrate teams of builders to keep putting up new floors at ever increasing speeds!