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Thank you for sharing your personal experience!

I often think "I should get me one of those" (MNT Pocket, or similar form-factor), but with my visual acuity getting worse (got my reading glasses in the past year), my X1 carbon might just remain my mainstay.

Elon can remain a successful bs'er longer than you can remain solvent... or something like that.

I don't know why you're being downvoted.

So, lately I've been trying to decouple AI from Capitalism, and it's starting to explain a lot of things, like:

* excessive hype

* doing layoffs, and scapegoating AI

* pushing AI into everything (Copilot)

* etc.

Wow, looks like you've put a lot of thought into this!

I skimmed the breakdown, and you've inspired me try something along these lines...

Thank You For Making And Sharing :)

I was trying to figure out why this article got flagged. Thanks!

Why are your comments often Russian novels?

Do you have 1 hour to compose and write down your thoughts?

You might enjoy this piece by Charlie Stross:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...

(Spoiler: Corporations are AI)

From a POSIWID perspective, you are right.

From a "we live in a civilized society" perspective, I can see why some people are outraged about his killing.

Finally, looking at the balance sheet of his accomplishments, I can also see why the pitchfork crowd is cheering.

> Across several stores, salespeople reported doing dozens of demos without closing a single sale. “We sell maybe one a week,” Barrett said in late May, two weeks after the union had voted to authorize a strike in order to make a final push for a contract.

> “Uh, none a week,” Billy Jarboe, a coworker, corrected her. “If we do a return, we’re negative.”

I appreciate your nuanced reading.

Yes, it's possible that it came from a place of wanting to help.

And, after the offer was spurned, the kindness was immediately replaced with wrath, at "how dare she turn me down?"

So, both can be true: she can be kind and helpful, but also petty and vindictive, and unable to see other people's perspective. Being permanently surrounded by sycophants and yes-men/women will probably distort most people like that.

Indeed, one of the epistemological lessons for me when confronting the power of LLMs is that a sort of "intellectual capability" can emerge in any system, from sheer scale/complexity alone.

If you're interested, check out Rupert Sheldrake:

https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Consc...

But the Dow is over 50,000 right now!!!1

(actually, 46,565.74 right now)

I think what you're expressing is also known as "the Bitter Lesson".

"...and when everyone's super, no one will be"

I think this is starting to play out.

When I personally see a blog post which didn't need an image, but still does have an AI-slop image banner, I mentally check out. I might have Claude summarize it, or (more likely) just skip it altogether.

Excuse me, it's an "excursion", not a war.

You are more confident about this than I am. Let's revisit this comment in December.

I truly hope you are proved right by history, but I'm concerned.

...as you should, because if you don't, the wrong lizard might be in charge!

OTOH, yes.

However, the person is also sufficiently self-aware to share their thought process (and candid about its shortsightedness).

To me, that made it worth reading (even though it has a sad message).

How did you realize you were shadowbanned?

I'm curious because I sometimes wonder, if that happened to me, would it affect the way in which I engage with this website?

FWIW, I often lurk, but sometimes engage (like right now). Perhaps it could happen to me and I would not realize it for a while...

I appreciate you building this and putting it on github -- I used it to build a simple offline gallery viewer.

Thank You For Making And Sharing!

Does your comment pass that bar?

I think you're failing to recognize that we essentially live in a post-Truth world. Two opposite statements can be uttered by the same person on the same day, and it won't matter.

Your assessment is spot-on! These entities have been on shaky ground for a while, and AI is a convenient scapegoat for justifying their unavoidable downsizing.

Your comment made me think of something: this might be Meta buying it to kill it off.

Thank you for articulating this point!

I've tried self-hosting, but found it underwhelming at the second category.

"Bobby Tables" in github

edit: can't omit the obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/327/

> AI is a threat to the “enshittification economy” because it lets us route around it.

This is prescient -- I wonder if the Big Tech entities see it this way. Maybe, even if they do, they're 100% committed to speedrunning the current late-stage-cap wave, and therefore unable to do anything about it.

I'm with you. I thought the title captured and represented the OG article accurately.

What's going on?

If it quacks like a duck...

I came to HN after seeing Claude chat fail to load.

I think I ran into it right around 8:30pm PST as well.