Yeah, I got started in silicon thinking cheaper, faster, more power efficient chips would be a net benefit to the world… Then we became a social media surveillance state and AI dogshit is just the icing on the cake.
Now I try to forget we’re boiling the oceans to ruin society by drinking. One day this capitalist hellscape will end.
underisk@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
series of increasingly large dominoes where the smallest is “NVIDIA releases CUDA” and the largest is “the entire global economy has become dependent on running a useless computer program that tricks stupid people into thinking it can do anything worthwhile”