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I agree that everyone's lost their minds, but so has this guy.

LLMs are actually producing a lot of pretty good stuff, can debug things that would have taken an entire team a week, and the people running AI companies are also generally like the most boring supervillains imaginable. All true.

It is also completely screwing up the global economy, and most people barely understand what it is and what's happening.

It's also not going to collapse anytime soon as a technology despite what the economy does, and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Everyone who's extreme on it on either end is generally wrong.

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I believe both extremes are right, because more than one thing can be true at once.

that we're creating god but that it's also a fad that will go away soon?

I think you just accidentally described what's already been happening for 7000+ years.

Though if any followers still exist, they probably wouldn't agree that 𒀭𒂗𒆠 was just a fad.

To save others the search query:

> Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 dEN-KI), also known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀 dE₂-A), was the Mesopotamian god of wisdom, crafts, fresh subterranean waters, magic, and incantations.[1][11] He was believed to rule the Abzû. In Mesopotamian astronomy, he was associated with the stars of the southern band of the sky.[17] Enki's wife was Damgalnuna, and their children included Nanshe, Asalluhi, Marduk and Enbilulu. His sukkal (attendant deity) was Isimud. Servants of the god included lahmu, kulullû, and the Seven Sages.

I figured that with the crafting, piping in fresh water, and magic incantations, Enki would be the most data-center-adjacent of the deities. :P

yeah, exactly. soon and god are both subjective. think more on it “going away” is subjective too.

rotary telephones and pay phones went away but we still have phones.

> It is also completely screwing up the global economy, and most people barely understand what it is and what's happening

What is screwing up 'the global economy'? LLMs?

Probably the concentration of a too-big-to-fail percentage of capital into a single digit number of tech companies, many of whom are engaging in circular financing deals between one another while also ransacking the entire consumer electronics space.

something like 25% of the current American GDP growth is because we're shoveling money into AI companies that have no idea how they're going to pay it back beyond selling subscriptions to chat bots, much of the world will take a hit on that crash

Have you tried buying a computer lately

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