na ja es ist ja immer noch zeit

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ice cold take: i feel like a lot of p(doom) scare is thinly veiled p(capitalism is unsustainable) not saying the risks aren't real; just that a lot of the time you look under the mask and it's "we could be forced to cut profit margins 😱 invest in infrastructure 😱 redistribute wealth 😱"

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rehe 👍

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Yeah, though I think a big part of it is a kind of reverse Gell-Mann amnesia that seems to affect a lot of creatives here. "LLMs are bad at writing, which I understand, so they must be bad at everything else, ergo it's all meaningless hype", along with understandable fear for their own livelihood.

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for doctorrow specifically, AI that works is a crisis for his entire late ideological corpus which basically stated that extraction is the only future for american capitalism and there will be no new intellectual or industrial expansion

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