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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

Not a sneer, but still a damn good piece on AI from Brian Merchant:

The great and justified rage over using AI to automate the arts

(Personal sidenote: Tech's public image is almost certainly gonna take a nosedive as a result of this AI bubble. "We made a machine with the express purpose of putting artists out of business" isn't a business case, its the setup for a shitty teen dystopian novel.)

(Fuck, now I wanna try and predict how the AI bubble bursting will play out...)

[–] corbin@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Libertarian nerds run straight into actual California, not the AI-generated dreamland they imagine

Mercury news: "Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report"

https://archive.ph/UbdBw

The report released late last week by Solano County said the proposed new city of 50,000 — possibly up to 400,000 decades from now — would likely cost the county billions of dollars and create substantial annual financial deficits, while slashing agricultural production, damaging climate-change resilience, and potentially threatening local water supplies. The project, according to the report, “may not be financially feasible.”

HN shows what they think of the 3 people with actual thoughts on the issue by downvoting them to death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047746

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There's a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

which spent more than $800 million buying more than 60,000 acres of mostly agricultural land near Fairfield

Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, just in case anyone thought there was a difference

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Butters and Trump are ruining my ability to get anything done in town today. Not a big fan of this dumb shit inconveniencing me IRL.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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