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Myke Walton
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We serve the plant that wants to be propagated, not the bottom line of the garden center
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AI isn't 'normal technology' any more than our political moment is 'business as usual'. What's significant about AI is the way it both reveals and amplifies the underlying dynamics of a system in total crisis.
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I must not discourse.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
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the AI hype bubble is preparing to pop

or as the analysts at Gartner call it, the coming "trough of disillusionment"
🚩Marked Not Safe From the Ray-Ban-Opticon
earth has a surplus of code. halt production until conditions improve
next we question: should we orient assessments of competence around tech-brained metrics like “can person code” at all
boiled sea snail plantationocene
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
“O snail, climb Mount Fuji,
but slowly, slowly" - Kobayashi Issa