It will never stop being incredibly funny that in the past 24 months an untold legion of people have emerged from heroic doses of shrooms/LSD clutching a note that just has “what if u could chat with a pdf???” scrawled on it
Like, what if i don't want to be friends with a database? What next ? a few beers with my fridge? Skinny dipping with my toaster?
Sounds deadly.
Another instance of SV bros unknowingly LARPing spirituality is more obvious: the weird, intense religious-like fervor some people have about AI.
This stuff inhabits the void in people, and it becomes very obvious.
It is crazy to me how fast and how intensely cult-like AI became. It's even crazier when you consider the gap between their belief in AI (singularity, automate every job, next step for humanity, etc...) and their actual AI projects (make a fancy QR code generator or yet another SEO spam site...)
It’s only five or ten years away!
More seriously: I expect some proponents have financial ties to AI as a whole. It smells way too much like the crypto/NFT grifters.
Like, the idea of a global integrated organism that integrates information at the speed of light, and had perfect recall, is basically Genesis.