Post #4503104

2026-08-09 22:03 UTC

I legit think the doomers and boosters come from the same source at this point, just with different flavors of the same message that may resonate with different groups of people. You won't buy that AI will save the world and grant wishes? Maybe you'll go for "it's so dangerous" ... and therefore still must be very powerful and effective.

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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-08-09 22:11

Oh! If you don't know what "Pivot" is? Let me tell you about it: The name is a play on the phrase "Pivot to video" from the famous attempt to shut down print media and increase ad revenue. It's short hand for a bait and switch. Pivot is basically the local news around here for tech topics and markets. David is a cool dude who is bad at interior decorating and he just interviewed Molly White. https://pivot-to-ai.com/

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-08-09 22:08

@futurebird@sauropods.win It's been quasi-religious (at least) for a long time now, so of course it has the same trappings of Christians having differences of approach whether they focus on God as loving father, power-justified tyrant, or some combination of the two, but recreating the Predator handshake meme in their agreement that God is omnipotent. All the more reason it's clearly nonsense (which is terrifying to see people fall for) for anyone outside the reality distortion bubble where emotions motivate belief in some kind of Turbo Pascal's Wager.

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@exchgr@mastodon.world 2026-08-09 22:24

@futurebird@sauropods.win they are often literally the same person https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/no-freedom-openai-boss-sam-altman-sparks-frenzy-after-dystopian-prediction/news-story/837f91f37c101f422cac77ec5eb2764f

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