OK, that makes sense. Thanks for the long explainer.

I think the AI bubble does feel a lot like the GFC. My understanding is that the amount of leveraging is much higher than pre-gfc, too. And I’m utterly unconvinced that genAI has much real underlying value across most industries (other than some niches like copywriting, and some simple coding tasks)

I don’t think that needs to happen, if you get into a hyperinflation situation, right? And Trump and co have been doing a lot to destroy the underlying productivity of the us economy over the last year.

What conditions would be needed to make it likely?

Do you assume that a collapse of the US economy is impossible?

I was expecting the AI bubble to burst and then take down the US economy, but perhaps it’s going to be the other way around…

There’s The Defender’s Almanac, which is a RPG designed to go along with a board game. The setting (forest animals in guerilla warfare against a mech invasion, with magic) and the board game are cool. The RPG has lots of good narrative content, but the mechanics are not great (I wrote a review with more details at that link). Could probably just use the setting with the Root RPG rules though.

Eh, what’s bad for capitalists is what’s good for the rest of us

What is reddit speak?

Idk, it probably has an open backdoor somewhere

Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.

Also, threatening to do it is plausible just because texts relating to that are present in the training data. It doesn’t mean that an LLM actually knows what blackmail is, let alone is capable of doing anything about it.

LLMs are not magic

Those are all great books/stories. But they are all off the mark for the AI bubble.

The book you wanna read is John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath.

Gronk

That’s… Not how genetics works.

There’s nothing evolutionary about it. Humans have been doing altruism and cooperation for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s cultural.

It’s true! It’s a relatively minor complaint really. Let me pivot: fuck social norms around early starts 😅

Right, but I mean, the platform was originally designed without them in mind, and there’s no real reason why every piece of software needs to have every piece of functionality… I’m can see why they wouldn’t be prioritising it

I suspect I would love it if groups were in mastodon, but I’m not entirely sure it won’t backfire in some horrendous way (this is social media after all)

Jealous

Mastodon doesn’t have groups?