Post #4156084
2026-07-28 04:36 UTC
this is not me saying that the VCs are particularly good at predicting outcomes. this is a "house always wins" situation.
a) it doesn't work, but you get dependent on it for achieving the same result; your skills atrophy, they jack up the price, they make a ton of money, they win
b) it works TOO well; you actually get way out ahead of proprietary alternatives and start harming their bottom line. they jack up the price so much that only proprietary alternatives can afford it, they win
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 04:38
I tend to believe that "superintelligence" is a meaningless term and "AGI" is functionally unachievable (certainly with the current generation of technology), but nothing makes me believe in the superintelligent machine-god than Them sending Their time-traveling agents to tell us all, wild-eyed and panicked, that we have a "moral imperative" to use a specific product to achieve a specific goal