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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    11·
    21 hours ago

    Whoever gets there first, makes basically everything else obsolete in an instant.

    TechBros repeat this constantly, but it just isn’t true.

    Plenty of second-on-the-scene solutions have emerged as most popular, or most impactful.

    But Tech Bros need the fear of missing out (fear of arriving second) to justify huge investments with no worthwhile results.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 hours ago

      I’m answering the question of what the arms race is

      The goal is a technology that replaces the need for humans in any job.

      The FOMO is different now because they don’t give a shit about the consumer. The FOMO is versus the other competitors because it’s a winner takes all scenario.

      They will keep accelerating to the detriment of literally everything else.

      Whether you believe they’ll make it is almost moot. They’re going to burn the world down trying.