The billionaires do not have normal human relationships with people who don’t want anything from them so they have to boil the oceans to build themselves friends - ThreadSky

reckless.bsky.social • 28 days ago

The billionaires do not have normal human relationships with people who don’t want anything from them so they have to boil the oceans to build themselves friends

Reposted from Charlie Warzel

what a grim and honestly unimaginative idea of what the future could hold www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

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rusty-nail.bsky.social•28 days ago

Like I answered a similar post. Everything is an abstraction to these ppl: community, work, money, relationships, hearing the word "no". They no longer interact with the same world as we do

reckless.bsky.social•28 days ago

Btw I say this empathy - the only person who seems somehow unaffected by leading the sort of ruthlessly transactional life modernity demands is Donald Trump, which is why he dominates the lonely world we find ourselves in

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•28 days ago

Dunno, he’s pretty fucked up too

michelemotta.bsky.social•28 days ago

Meanwhile I'm cultivating quiet the collection of ulcers and I haven't slept properly since the inoguration. Every day is a new horror. The general public seems to not give one shit as Project 2025 unfolds. It's awesome.

michelemotta.bsky.social•28 days ago

*quite*

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•28 days ago

Reminds me of the thanksgiving Facebook thread where lonely trump supporters posted their bologna and Doritos sandwiches

dennycarter.bsky.social•28 days ago

It is a terribly sad view of life, and all of the most powerful men cling on to it desperately

jaymarose.bsky.social•28 days ago

It’s a life of repetition, no growth, and consuming.

dedsentry.bsky.social•28 days ago

Literal description of algorithmic social media

jaymarose.bsky.social•28 days ago

Voluntary A Clockwork Orange for life. All the talk of 1984, A Brave New World snuck right up on us.

yesellis.bsky.social•28 days ago

throughout Herbert's Dune novels he not-so-subtly swipes at "machines that think on behalf of humans". I didn't really understand the big deal when I read them as a teen, but this article (and the general state of the world) is make me understand him all too well.

yesellis.bsky.social•28 days ago

I don't want AI to recall my life. there's not one single thing I want AI to do for me except the dishes.

jasoncross.org•28 days ago

This vision is dumb and worse, sad.

But I do welcome the trend toward "agentic AI" that is all the rage this year.

I honestly think it's a far better match for what we as humans expect from AI.

Hear me out...

jasoncross.org•28 days ago

When you think of a personal assistant, administrative assistant, whatever, you think of a person who you can give a general task to and they'll go DO that thing. And a good one knows what you like and takes care of that.

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jasoncross.org•28 days ago

They know to book you in Mariott not Doubletree and use your loyalty number. They order the vegan meal on your flight. They book the flight through DFW because you can't stand the Houston airport. They proactively remind you to get your mom flowers for mother's day.

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jasoncross.org•28 days ago

And when you ask them to order it and tell them what to put on the card, they get a succulents arrangement because they know she loves succulents.

AI that "does stuff" instead of just "knows stuff," and does it in a way we personally like, is a fantastic goal.

r3d00c.bsky.social•28 days ago

lol, same grift different name, yet people like you keep getting ensnared like compulsive gamblers who know they're gonna win *this* time

dedsentry.bsky.social•28 days ago

They will boil the public oceans, while keeping a private one for themselves. Billionaires will never expend their own capital and resources when they can burn up public ones first.

davidpham5.bsky.social•28 days ago

Having billions of dollars does something to a person’s brain. It detaches them from our day to day existence where scarcity drives our behavior, even perceived scarcity. All their relationships are transactional and I think that’s why they can’t even be happy because everyone is a purchase

npsorrell.com•28 days ago

It is a vision that doesn’t contemplate wisdom or transformative change through experience. It instead sells “knowledge” as a cheap imitation of these, at the expense of insights and self-actualization.

dgtech1.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's a weird irony that we've developed a society where the people with the skillset (hype, money raising, ultra greed) to rebuild the social worlds around us are the very people with zero social ability.

m-rd.bsky.social•28 days ago

The life of everyone you know being on payroll or wanting to be has to be utterly miserable. Just immense wealth & completely alone.

auldskater.bsky.social•28 days ago

AI will obviate the need for thinking, reasoning, remembering, calculating, learning - in time make us into hollow shells. Already driving a car is done without much thinking. Lights and wipers make decisions for you (I HATE it), automatic cars take away the fun of gear expertise. I WANT TO THINK.

ammartin.bsky.social•28 days ago

The same people who thought the tasteless, odorless food replacement Soylent was a huge unlock in their lives want to bring that same energy to "art" and "social interactions".

jayslacks.bsky.social•28 days ago

NO TO THE ROBOT ENSLAVERS! NO TO THE FAKE ROBOT GODS TRYING TO REPLACE US! REBEL! REBEL!

thecontentflywheel.bsky.social•28 days ago

The nice thing about reading this snippet is it makes me want to put down my phone and eat with my family

ezyjules.bsky.social•28 days ago

Isn't this the plot of Minority Report?

bungdan.bsky.social•28 days ago

A vast, horrifying nullity where humanity used to be.

matthewbest.bsky.social•27 days ago

"Imagine something that self reflection could achieve with numeric data you could do yourself in Google Sheets for free if you wanted to, but AI"

Fucking great

sluggishcheetah.bsky.social•28 days ago

It is so much more likely to be used to EXPLOIT those ‘insights’ on your behavior. Unless you own the software, of course…

d-wade.bsky.social•28 days ago

Human beings are not adapted to handle that much power, particularly the psychological isolation it brings. Isolation from both care and constraint. They are untethered from real human community - as many of us are.

robbie-lebeau.bsky.social•28 days ago

I'm honestly trying to understand how so much money continues to be invested into this thing that doesn't work and nobody asked for?

debpolston.bsky.social•28 days ago

Who wants this?

matthewsolomon.bsky.social•27 days ago

Keep coming back to "The Entire History of You" episode of Black Mirror when I read stuff like this

xoxoxopher.bsky.social•28 days ago

Most people thinking about finding a new city just listen to Talking Heads. Good points, bad points…🤪. Not sure a David Byrne AI bot will be more useful.

persianx6.bsky.social•28 days ago

"boil the oceans to build themselves friends" slaps.

lucyksy.bsky.social•28 days ago

Not only is it unsustainable and self destructive, concentrating all the wealth in the hands of a few in a consumer based society will fail. This is the classic killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. They just don't care. It becomes morally imperative to fight back, in small and big ways.

swimtwobirds.bsky.social•28 days ago

But all this hot air is based on flaky LLMs that *can’t manage notication summaries* without fucking up spectacularly? I swear to god - American tech lately is a constant stream of total bullshit. Web 3.0, the metaverse, driverless cars, NFTs, crypto, LLMS. They’re all flavours of the same bullshit.

misscantbewrong.bsky.social•28 days ago

pyramid schemes of the 21st century

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