relevant article https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt

AI storytelling is an amalgam of several different narratives, including:

Inevitability: AI is the future; its eventual supremacy is both imminent and certain, and therefore anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind had better embrace the technology. See Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, insisting earlier this year that every job in the world will be impacted by AI “immediately.”

Functionality: AI performs miracles, and the AI products that have been released to the public wildly outperform the products they aim to replace. To believe this requires us to ignore the evidence obtained with our own eyes and ears, which tells us in many cases that the products barely work at all, but it’s the premise of every TV ad you watch out of the corner of your eye during a sports telecast.

Grandiosity: The world will never be the same; AI will change everything. This is the biggest and most important story AI companies tell, and as with the other two narratives, big tech seems determined to repeat it so insistently that we come to believe it without looking for any evidence that it’s true.

As far as I can make out, the scheme is essentially: Keep the ship floating for as long as possible, keep inhaling as much capital as possible, and maybe the tech will get somewhere that justifies the absurd valuations, or maybe we’ll worm our way so far into the government that it’ll have to bail us out, or maybe some other paradigm-altering development will fall from the sky. And the way to keep the ship floating is to keep peddling the vision and to seem more confident that the dream is inevitable the less it appears to be coming true.

speaking for myself, MS can thank AI for being the thing that made me finally completely ditch windows after using it 30+ years

+1

also can’t go wrong with spaceballs

robocop, OG 80’s version

yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me

sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve

edit: lemmy helps too

don’t look at that before, during, or after eating thanksgiving

yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash

gotta address the oligarch technofascist problem first. kind of hard to force companies to break up when the companies owns the people who make the laws

pretend that he is in sync

no need. M$ and pretty much every other big tech behemoth has been forcing unwanted bullshit on the customers for decades, and guess what–people still buy their shit

coffee. pretty much every local roaster within 50 miles of me has a better dark roast than 99% of the grocery store crap, which is also usually already stale when they stock it on the shelf

obligatory

genuine question: when someone says “i eat healthy,” do you always inject your own meaning of “i don’t use drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol or do anything else ‘unhealthy’” ?

in other words, to you “i eat healthy” = “i don’t do anything unhealthy”?

because that’s what you just did

also if you want to be sciencey and technically correct, there are 3 daughters in the photo

Being totally wrecked in your 40s or even earlier is not good.

i concur: in my 40s, totally wrecked. i still consider myself extremely lucky. no ragrets

i tried monjaro and garuda, seem to have had the best luck so far with pop_os out of the box. running an AMD ryzen 7 9800x3d and RTX 5070-- other distros apparently hated these things

you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience

you goober.

you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience. the fact that you’re trying to, and then calling me “goober” is quite enough for me to say: best of luck, tiger

lol i love how the abstract cites a paper from 1942

look: if you’re disgusted by genitals, i’m sorry to hear that, and i’m not judging you.

but don’t sit there and try to tell me everyone, or even “most people” feels that way.

i can’t speak for goofy looking dicks, but vulvas are extremely attractive; i dunno wtf you, or your 1942 paper referencing “study” are talking about.

again–i’m not judging. but i suggest you post to asklemmy (or literally any other forum), and ask: “are female genitalia no fun to look at/unattractive/weird/whatever tf else” and consider that maybe whatever problem you have with vaginas might not be a baked in instinctual thing that everyone has

develop completely separate processing systems to account for the fact that genitals look weird. Their appearances are so strange that you’d rather avoid them

wat

why are people still surprised by things like this?