Post #2278823
2026-05-08 22:50 UTC
the number one thing that should give anyone pause in re ai for businesses is this:
alice sells widgets. bob has the magic do-anything box. bob wants to sell it to alice so she can save labour costs when designing, manufacturing, shipping and selling her widgets.
if the magic do-anything box even works,
why is bob not already using it to sell widgets and eat alice's absolutely fucking lunch?
Replies (3)
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@triz@normal.style 2026-05-08 22:52
either the box does not work and bob is a huckster, or alice is teaching the magic do-anything box how to make her widgets, which means anybody with the magic do-anything box can make her widgets and an alice can be cut out of the equation entirely in short order
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@SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz 2026-05-09 03:27
@triz@normal.style probably so Bob can also sell Alice tokens to use said do-anything box, and he has a permanent customer and can take an indirect cut of anything Alice sells?
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@MyLittleMetroid@sfba.social 2026-05-09 09:24
@triz@normal.style Besides everything else you mention we should all keep in mind that "selling widgets" is a suckers game in today's hyper-financialized, rentier economy.