Before the ai panic and the nft panic was the metaverse panic, and before that was the web3 panic, and I think a lot about how all together they are a decade-long mass-delusion-based marketing campaign for graphics processing units
Two years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
See I think we've been confusing the snake oil with the shit made out of it. Crypto, vr, ar and ai are elixers. The snake oil is GPUs, circuits for modeling worlds (multidimensional vectors) instead of minds (memory and logic), which prop up share prices post-Moore's Law and draw insane capex spend
They're trying to force us all to drink snake oil, because the alternative is them having to face the fact that they burned billions of dollars making snake oil.
Apr 30, 2025 19:52Not that GPUs don't do anything! I have enjoyed a video game or two. AR would be cool but I'm all set on dystopia rn. Snake oil was real (basically better fish oil) except when it wasn't, or didn't do what the salesman and his shills said. And then the bastards printed up new labels in the next town
