@jwcph guitar gear is also odd. What other industry can you plug something brand new, like a guitar, into an amp made in the 1950s and not only expect it to just work but also to sound really good.Maybe I’m jaded from the bicycle, car and computer industries?Maybe there are other examples of where you can plug end user consumer stuff together from decades apart?#guitar

@Taco_lad @pluralistic Holy shit no! People keep being impressed by error rates above 90% but any number of errors per 100 becomes a metric shit ton of harm when uses are counted in the millions...

@jwcph@helvede.net I've kind of started to accept the theory that whatever economic or capitalist models we're trying to apply to any of this simply don't make sense. These companies are no longer trying to make money. They're trying to outspend each other and most certainly outbullshit each other in the name of capturing some theoretical "infinite market" of the future, where he who controls the AI controls the universe.No one is thinking about long term profitability of anything, as no one believes projections in that space are even possible. They're YOLOing like crazy, because they all have the same AI brain worms telling them the they need to serve the Basilisk or else...Hopefully that eventually manages to run all of those companies to the ground, before they manage to destroy society and the environment.

@johnrohde - and if you give a craftsperson a shitty tool that doesn't make any part of their work process or outcome better, they simply don't use it & also don't keep it taking up space at their workbench or in the toolbox, because why the fuck would they?