Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I truly don’t know how to process Ben Thompson’s essay today. He’s been my steady source of clear-eyed tech takes for like 6 years now and this one feels like straight sci-fi. I’m not an AI doomer, but I’m def in my feelings rn 😩 https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-s
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osama
@osama
every few hundreds of years, we have a version of a doomsday machine aka Antichrist/Armilus/Dajjal whose form is reflective of what the period of humans were/are focused on and some see epitome, others evil. for us, it’s tech/AI and one so complex, it mimics us. so it’ll just be a tiny bit of chaos until equilibr
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
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Papajams
@papa
Would be intrigued to hear how you would characterise previous epochs of the same premise ? Fear of the internet as a whole being one perhaps ?
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