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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
So much horseshit happened around 2000 that forever split our timeline...
W Stealing the election
Bin Laden attacking and making the entire world forever lose their mind and hope
Never ending wars and climate destruction because no-one cared anymore about collaboration
That 4 year period altered the world's trajectory for the worse on so many levels.
W lies and propaganda led to Putin and Trump and it set the stage for all of the anti queer and anti immigrant rhetoric
W lies and propaganda led to Putin and Trump
At least talking about Putin, that jerk and his family (both actual and "family") created most of the lies, propaganda and war in the ex-Soviet space themselves. Starting right with year 1991 (Yeltsin had a different public image, but it was one team), hijacking a honest democratic movement, breaking what institutions limiting them USSR still had (under democratic excuses), and making every regional conflict a thorn in its body, either hard to remove or fulfilling their goals when removed. Consummating their achieved right to answer legal arguments with cannons in 1993, their achieved right to arbitrarily wage war on their compatriots in 1996, and their achieved right to kill anyone they don't like in 1999. They literally rule Russia as an occupied country, they even live mostly abroad.
So by 2000 Russia was already deep in shit. Dunno about USA.
You should read the duology (I’ve only read the first book) Monk and Robot, which is solopunk. The premise is that robots got tired of doing what they were built for, and decided to form a treaty with humans allowing them to wonder into the wild and live without human contact.
When I heard that line I was like "Yeah, sure. We'll never have AI in my lifespan" and you know what? I was right.
What I wasn't expecting was for a bunch of tech bros to create an advanced chatbot and announce "Behold! We have created AI, let's have it do all of our thinking for us!" while the chatbot spits out buggy code and suggests mixing glue into your pizza sauce.
AI is an umbrella term that covers many things we've already had for a long time, including things like machine learning. This is not a new definition of AI, it's always been this definition.
I work in the gaming industry and every week I receive emails about how AI is gonna revolutionize my job and get sent to time wasting training about how to use Figma AI or other shit like that because it's the best thing ever according to HR... and it never is obviously.
At best, it's gonna make middle managing jobs easier but for devs like me, as long as the "AI" stays out of our engines and stays into the equivalent of cooperative vision boards, it does nothing for me. Not once have I tried to use it for it to turn actually useful. It's mediocre at best and I can't believe there are game devs that actually try to code with it, can't wait to see these hot garbage products come on the market.
Gawd, me too. They've started scraping my LinkedIn recommenders to try bait me in.
For context, I work at a university. The subject was something like "xxxxxx recommends you for a company like us" implying my contact had actually been behind it, but obviously they didn't.
Hi saltesc,
Saw on LinkedIn that xxxxxx highlighted your industry expertise and dedication to client success—sounds like you're pivotal in driving both xxxxxx and solid outcomes for your clients!
By the way, any chance you'd be interested in using AI to get total visibility of all your data?
Our AI data analytics solution specializes in helping companies in the higher education industry do exactly that.
With Knowi, you can effortlessly get answers to questions like:
What is the percentage increase in graduate employment rates from diverse student demographics over the past three years, including international learners?
How many new educational offerings have been developed annually at xxxxxx to enhance skills development within the community, including international students?
It's like ChatGPT, but for your data!
Open to learning more?
All the best, xxxxxx xxxxxx Business Growth
And obviously it reads like it was written by one of the GPTs.
Had they seen our profiles, they'd actually know what it is we do and how ridiculous recommending a chat AI is. That's sooooo beneath our knowledge and expertise. Like a random suggesting Ivermectin to Dr Faucci.
You're confusing AI and AGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
AGI is what people mean, when they say "AI doesn't exist": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
While AI is a program that can do a task associated with human intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
AI is not supposed to be an artificial human being. AI just does a task that people associated with humans (before they readjusted the definition of intelligence after it being created).
A bot that plays chess is an AI.
You're confusing AI and AGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
While this can be a valuable clarification, it ignores the plain use history of the term AI, and demands that language change for our convenience.
Laypeople have always used "AI" to mean what scientists call "AGI".
Language is weird, and tech bros suck.
It used to be that AI was AI and then when AI was coopted by the stupid they had to come up qith AGI
Ya know, I can remember AI being used even in hella old games for enemies.
Which had even less to do with AI than LLM.
I have several books for the 90s about AI programming. AI have always mean any computer program written to "resemble" intelligence, from basic path finding to LLM.
You won't have general purpose true AI until it can actually think and reason, llm will never do that. At most they would be a way of interaction with an AI.
It literally was the peak though. Maybe early 2000s minus 9/11. But after 2010 it absolutely went downhill.
Oh goodness no. We had the War on Terror for 15 years after 2001. Global civilization took a serious crash dive after that. The terrorists won.
The war industry won.
They have better financing
The terrorists won.
Like Bush, Putin, Erdogan, those terrorists. Yep.
Even Taliban won.
Bin Laden killed less than Bush did. And Obama.
What a fucked up world the state has invented.
unless you're queer. queerphobia was much more rampant back then.
Interestingly enough though, the directors of the matrix are two trans women
But while yes, queerphobia was worse in some ways, it was also not as bad in others. For example, trans people didn't have the massive organized targeted attack back then. In many ways, things have gotten worse in this aspect too
Question for the trans folk here: which time period was harder for you? Hostile ignorance or hostile attention?
During hostile ignorance:
During hostile attention:
Generally, I prefer the visibility and broader social acceptance we have now. More people know about us, so more people hate us but way more people accept us. I see it as how being gay was in the aughts. More people were out and it was less of a big deal even though there was still a lot of hate crimes against gay people. Now it's way more accepted outside of ultra conservative areas. I'm hoping we are more accepted within a decade instead of being rounded up and killed en masse.
It probably would depend on if they pass or not. If you fully pass 15-20 years ago probably was much easier in some regards.
I never experienced hostile ignorance but I do like to be left alone, so I'd vote ignorance over attention.
I mean, Facebook is chatbot hell, with millions pulled in.
If that isn't the matrix, I dunno what is.
It's even worse, man... At least the robots in The Matrix weren't capitalists (I don't think... I honestly forget most of the Animatrix)
They definitely weren't capitalist, lmao. They only wanted to make the perfect system. You could consider their quest for perfection "greed".
They didn't really have to try, though, they had a great system in place. Humans lived long enough for turnover and plenty of energy provided. That glitch was an issue, but contained. At least until someone decided to fall in love. Then the whole system failed.
Probably the realist part of the matrix.
Humans as a battery is just a dumb concept.
Now utilizing humans for our biologically assembled computer (brains) so they could offload processing power, that woulda been smart.
I think that was the original concept - battery was the "for the masses" version
The further you get from the gold standard the worse life you'll have. Though you might have more social media and gadgets you'll have a smaller house and worse quality food/services, as everything is financialized through debt in a futile attempt to force the elderly who own all the assets to consume every greater amounts, as automation progressively decreases the costs and companies find more advanced ways to shrinkflate products.
We had passed the peak. Limp Bizkit was already popular. Every dude I know that loved that band is now a middle aged incel.
God,
thought they were cool.
haven't heard of them in decades, not until the new Devil May Cry in netflix. enjoyed the nostalgia.
now I'm afraid I've become a middle aged incel.
someone put me down before it gets worse, why am I suddenly interested in starting a podcast?
There are better quality versions but you might like this episode of Lucas Bros Moving Co.
The US is not all of civilization.
The rise of authoritarianism and nationalism is happening in multiple countries like Hungary, Russia, China, and the U.S. Parties like AfD have grown in strength in the last 20 years, thanks in part to the ability of social media companies to prioritize "engagement" to enable them to make more money over societal health.
Prince made this statement way before Matrix did