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One Grift After Another
@cwebber the name of the most complete work about the history of the world.
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One Grift After Another
In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
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In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
@cwebber I think one thing changes: people get more cynical about humanity and tech.
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One Grift After Another
@cwebber grifters be like
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In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
@cwebber especially poignant since the time jump in One Battle was effectively also from the 70's to today
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In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
I mentioned this to @vv who said "They already are moving starting their move onto the next grift probably, it's the proliferation of gambling."
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In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
@cwebber I see some things changing. Before the pandemic, Mastodon was a desert, diaspora was already a conspiracionist hellhole, EU wasn’t at all invested in digital commons, there was no smollweb, etc. Now I get to spend most of my social media time on community-controlled platforms. Your work might change everything down the line.
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@cwebber especially poignant since the time jump in One Battle was effectively also from the 70's to today
@joeyh I'm not quite sure what you mean "from the 70s to today", could you elaborate? I thought it was from today to 2042 basically.
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I mentioned this to @vv who said "They already are moving starting their move onto the next grift probably, it's the proliferation of gambling."
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In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.
Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."
My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."
@cwebber That's a very likely outcome. I really think, there could still be a correction coming up. It might turn out that you just can't make money with AI. Especially, since there's lots of externalised cost, lots of cost upfront and the productivity gains are as of yet still not in ranges that would justify the investment long term.
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@joeyh I'm not quite sure what you mean "from the 70s to today", could you elaborate? I thought it was from today to 2042 basically.
@cwebber it's based on a book that starts in the 70's, that's why we have that particular flavor of militant protest
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