the tech industry is about to invent books

[sakhavi@aoir.social]

@MattBinder @fabio thank God, somebody seems to have burned all the pre-existing ones. I’m sure the tech ones will be better, if anything

[thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space]

@MattBinder are these people even conscious

[philsciprof@mastodon.online]

@MattBinder

I’m pretty sure that dude’s brain has already atrophied far beyond fixing in a brain gym

[slatsgrobnik@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder they're called libraries

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@MattBinder

How do we get dibs on the influencer culture?

[screwturn@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder
As a writer, I'm very much in favour of someone stuffing a bowl of eels down that guy's trousers

[benhm3@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder

We have always had them, they’re called “museums.”

[letsbeworms@brain.worm.pink]

@dank @MattBinder

clearly andrew needs to hit the brain gym

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@screwturn @MattBinder My Trouser Is Full Of Eels: A Treatise on Cognition

[mek2600@infosec.exchange]

@hellomiakoda @MattBinder Portal and Portal 2 both suck. I asked Claude to work on them and it was done in a minute and a half. I didn't enjoy them at all.

[screwturn@mastodon.social]

@drahardja @MattBinder An Eel Ate My Pecker: How AI Girlfriends Saved My Masculinity

[unsightly3055@universeodon.com]

@MattBinder guy hasn't been to a brain gym a day in his life.

[aedancullen@social.treehouse.systems]

@MattBinder the metaphor is broken anyway, because for it to make sense we'd have to currently have robots doing all our physical labor. I don't think the construction workers finishing the beautiful buildings across the street from me would be very happy if they were told their work was not "modern day work." (In fact, they can confidently say something that no techbro can: in 20 years their work will still be standing and people will still be admiring it.)

People building things using their hands are paid, and people doing knowledge work are paid. Everyone does the kind of work that suits them, and everyone needs to find ways outside of work to enrich themselves in the other ways.

So it just goes back again to the fact that the AI-elitist dream is having slaves for everything. And then yes indeed the ruling class would need to artificially exercise both their bodies and minds while they sit on their thrones otherwise doing nothing.

Have they realized it is not very fulfilling to do nothing?

[svelmoe@hachyderm.io]

@MattBinder "I predict" ...... *sigh*

[svelmoe@hachyderm.io]

@aedancullen @MattBinder If I could do any meaningful work with my hands - I'd drop the computer and change immediately.
I envy those people.

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@MattBinder
Things tech bros keep reinventing, an incomplete list:
Buses... But worse
Trains... But worse
Parks... But worse
Clubs... But worse
Libraries... But worse
Books... But worse

[fortyseven@defcon.social]

@MattBinder "My time to shine, it is!"

[duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@MattBinder /me eyes the plan9 laptop on his workbench

[arpie4math@mathstodon.xyz]

@MattBinder

"I Hear a New World", Alan Moore's new book in the "Long London" series, starts hard. Read paragraph. Atlas is a mythological reference. Re-read paragraph. Atlas is a metaphor. Re-read paragraph. Atlas is a *horse*. Continued. Atlas didn't survive chapter one — may feature prominently in the plot later.

[tkissing@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder But these will be written on-demand by AI, tailored to your advertising profile err I mean training goals. Unfortunately it will be technically required that they are bound to your account and access can be revoked at any time - for copyright and national security reasons that OpenBrainX has no choice but to respect.