AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

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13. We used to buy stuff we needed or at least wanted

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Sorry to channel Tyler Durden here, but it is ridiculous.

Now stuff we don’t need, which actively slows down our work and makes life miserable (while in the ultimate insult offering a creepy therapy AI chatbot/agent) is forced on us by the creepy humans behind the AI. One thing is true-with AI and tech of that kind, the humans are matched with AI in creepiness and incompetence.

The only upshot is that it puts in stark relief all that was already wrong with society by taking it to its absurd extreme.

I feel there is only mild hyperbole in that in my case (too complicated to explain).

Ed Zitron rants about AI here and it is mildly soothing if your nerves are as inflamed as mine are:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/


(I boost Ed since i find his work useful, but am already maxed out re subscriptions. And time sucking tech makes work and life harder.)


I generally dislike The Atlantic for reasons Nathan Robinson laid out over at Current Affairs Magazine, so I don’t feel this even touches on how useless all this garbage tech is.

I was thinking about how much worse my work has become after repeated brushes with tech (which is not even my field). I just want a simple phone/computer/life ffs. Not be sucked into the giant asshole of stupidity and hubris which is the tech creep’s ego.

Where it doesn’t destroy jobs by replacing you (which it cannot since it’s, you know, a worthless scam), it does so by being a nuisance.

The irony is that while I used to be inefficient, technology has made me super-inefficient. It’s all so irredeemably fucking stupid.

AI reminds me of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over

Over the course of 10 two-day sessions, staff were instructed in new concepts, such as “the law of three” (a “thinking framework that helps us identify the quality of mental energy we have”), and discovered the importance of “alignment”, “intentionality” and “end-state visions”. This new vocabulary was designed to awake employees from their bureaucratic doze and open their eyes to a new higher-level consciousness. And some did indeed feel like their ability to get things done had improved.

But there were some unfortunate side-effects of this heightened corporate consciousness. First, according to one former middle manager, it was virtually impossible for anyone outside the company to understand this new language the employees were speaking. Second, the manager said, the new language “led to a lot more meetings” and the sheer amount of time wasted nurturing their newfound states of higher consciousness meant that “everything took twice as long”. “If the energy that had been put into Kroning had been put to the business at hand, we all would have gotten a lot more done,” said the manager.

Although Kroning was packaged in the new-age language of psychic liberation, it was backed by all the threats of an authoritarian corporation. Many employees felt they were under undue pressure to buy into Kroning. For instance, one manager was summoned to her superior’s office after a team member walked out of a Kroning session. She was asked to “force out or retire” the rebellious employee.

It’s not just that it is dickish - surveillance, coercion etc. I don’t think all that even makes us more productive or well. They are just a way for unscrupulous people with products and services no one would choose to insinuate themselves into one’s workplace, home and personal life by soft, passive-aggressive force..