2026-05-17 22:03 UTC
@Mikal@sfba.social @joeposaurus@chaos.social the boosters all believe in the imminent arrival of a magical MacGuffin that will reduce hosting and inference costs to zero. they've no idea what it is, or how it works, but it's going to happen "soon" and "this is the worst it's ever going to be". just believe harder.
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@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social 2026-05-17 23:24
@ramblingsteve@floss.social @Mikal@sfba.social @joeposaurus@chaos.social And their overall gamble is to stockpile money to be on top during the long rebuilding that might take decades Assuming any of the AI crap ever pays off The shitty (literally) Dickensian Industrial Revolution’s dire living conditions lasted a hundred years But kept the oligarchs and small upper classes in cheap servants