Y’know, today is just the perfect day to preorder Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present. bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...

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Lots of people are asking me today if I think the ongoing rout in tech stocks means that the AI bubble is bursting. I'm not calling the bubble burst yet (unfortunately*). This feels more like Wall St hedging some of its extreme bet on AI than abandoning the AI trade altogether.

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Roose figured us out. We all worship Big Parrot.

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"A.I. is a name that artificially hypes a variety of pattern-matching technologies to make them sound more human-adjacent than they are. The name “A.I.” is a con!" Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

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This irks me so much ->"It’s so much more drab than that. The danger is garden-variety fascism, where rich guys ruin everyone’s lives by deskilling workers, suppressing wages, and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. Or what the dudebro technologists like to call “disruption.” -🎯

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