Liebe, Wissen, Arbeit

Telling tbh that nanotech hype hasn't even made a comeback. If you asked singularitarians 20 years ago which was gonna come first, AI or the gray goo, many would've said gray goo. This new generation of pseudo-rationalists don't even know about the gray goo.

Part of me hopes that the eventual fizzling out of AI hype (this shit ain't ending in you becoming an immortal genie, dear reader, the singularity is a myth invented to sell more digital technology products) pushes more people to be less starry eyed about digital technology in general.

All thoughts are of type string. This is basic computationalism, ok?

Boss, my IDE has intellisense, I'm already using AI everyday when I code. No boss, I don't need an "AI IDE" I already have AI in mine and it's been there pretty much the whole time I've been alive

When it comes to "AI" it would be enormously beneficial for all involved to stop importing mystical concepts in discussions about computer programs. I know computer people want the whole universe to be a computer so that they can stop having to think about death, but it's been ridiculous to see plain old obscurantist terms like "emergence", which has a particularly noxious use in philosophy of mind where the aspirations of digital golem studies are relevant, be used to talk about a set of instructions executed by a digital computer.

Overfitting as a Service

Probably the best predictor of support for Trump is how comfortable a person is in society, and this is especially the case in the second term. "The MAGA movement" doesn't require any effort from its supporters, just a vote every four years and rallies to spectate. It's a passive movement, where what the leadership (at this point, the reactionary fragment of the ruling class) wants is what's expected to be supported. MAGA supporters are relieved of the burden of having to think for themselves and assured that Trump will figure it all out.

There are no public meetings to attend where policies are discussed and voted on (those all happen at Mar-a-Lago and don't really involve any voting). There isn't substantive feedback from the bottom up, except to understand where the rank-and-files' grievances are and how they can be manipulated. It's completely top down, with an obligation to conform to the political line established by the Mar-a-Lago set enforced by penalty of social exclusion and ostracization.

Can't win for nothing on the left sometimes. Virtually every stance you can have on China is liable to get you called racist from one standpoint or another.