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MorningSong
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My hypothesis is there's roughly two factions:

  • Those who have leaned hard into the Elon Musk worship and "AI" boom and are quintupling down on it

  • Those who are essentially embarrassed by the former faction, but are rightfully wary that the nuance of their predictions and ideas getting loss in the MAKE YOUR OWN FEATURE FILM BY LIFTING PROMPTS FROM YOUTUBE AUTOCAPTIONS and IT'S ACTUALLY COOL THAT MY TESLA'S BODY PANELS ALL RUSTED AWAY discourses. They are thus basically hiding out and waiting for the storm to blow over and hoping they have a home left.


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

Can't speak for the futurists but I'm hunkered down waiting for the AI boom to implode again so that you can talk about how software tools are plain-and-simple brain prosthetics without being swarmed by people who use LinkedIn as their primary social network

in reply to @MorningSong's post:

Yeah like the first group are the people who had their minds destroyed by the memes on LessWrong and are now all reactionaries in some form or another. There are so many of them, mostly in marketing, sales, or finance (rather than actual science or engineering), that they're the ones who have more control on what gets sold as futurism or not. And of course everyone else hates them.

I mean I think there are absolutely people who are focused on this stuff outside of the cult, and doing so in a more careful manner than "future is when you wear goggles in the car". For the people who do think "future is when you wear goggles in the car" I'm not sure I'd say I care to distinguish between grifter and earnest, because I think a lot of these people are conning themselves as much as others.

I suspect that most of the people taking Kurzweil's arguments seriously and critically at this point are probably trans.