the tech industry is about to invent books
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder brb, going to buy up every copy of Brain Age for the Nintendo DS and corner the market before the bros get there
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@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
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder are these people even conscious
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the tech industry is about to invent books
I’m pretty sure that dude’s brain has already atrophied far beyond fixing in a brain gym
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder they're called libraries
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the tech industry is about to invent books
How do we get dibs on the influencer culture?
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder
As a writer, I'm very much in favour of someone stuffing a bowl of eels down that guy's trousers -
the tech industry is about to invent books
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@MattBinder so the analogy wasn't examined? quelle surprise
"modern work" aka this person's idea of it which involves no physical exertion, is distinct from "intellectual work", which requires understanding and domain knowledge (the same things physical labor benefits from)
and both require DOING THE THING to do it well?
and we need mental gyms to keep ourselves vital rather than just understanding what we're doing, in its context?
fuckin' dickhead got sold on "white collar work"
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@MattBinder
As a writer, I'm very much in favour of someone stuffing a bowl of eels down that guy's trousers@screwturn @MattBinder My Trouser Is Full Of Eels: A Treatise on Cognition
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@MattBinder I have one. Video games that have puzzles to solve.
@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.
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@screwturn @MattBinder My Trouser Is Full Of Eels: A Treatise on Cognition
@drahardja @MattBinder An Eel Ate My Pecker: How AI Girlfriends Saved My Masculinity
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder guy hasn't been to a brain gym a day in his life.
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@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?
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder "I predict" ...... *sigh*
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@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?
@aedancullen @MattBinder If I could do any meaningful work with my hands - I'd drop the computer and change immediately.
I envy those people. -
the tech industry is about to invent books
@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 -
the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder "My time to shine, it is!"
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the tech industry is about to invent books
@MattBinder /me eyes the plan9 laptop on his workbench
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the tech industry is about to invent books
"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.
