Our AI 🤖 Paradise Is Just Around The Corner

 

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting

From The Onion. Clearly a sarcastic reference to the murder of Ahmad Khashoggi. Unless you ask AI:

As Asher Langton says:

Silicon Valley is lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire to generate this slop.

I just read a CNN article about Tesla’s disastrous sales history since the complete flop of the Cybertruck and the failure of the robotaxis in Austin (a child can see a drunk driver would be a more reliable chauffeur), and investors are starting to sour, but also still believe whatever P.T. Barnum nonsense about the future that Musk spouts. Even though every business he’s ever run has been run into the ground (or saved by getting rid of him), “level headed business people” still insist Musk has the keys to the future.

I’m old enough to remember when “businessmen” were all wise and practical and understood risk and investment and made better decisions about finance than any government could, and government should be run by these gods among us on the sound principles of corporate America. You know, utterly ignoring the example of Robert McNamara as the SOD, and his complete inability to understand why he couldn’t defeat “those little brown men in black pajamas” with his business acumen and his equations.

And now edge lords are our new seers and prophets even though nothing they’ve done (social media; search engines) has improved daily life, and more arguably has made it worse. But “smart glasses” combined with AI and driverless cars will liberate us from want and need and all the ills that flesh is heir to. In the words of Iago to Rodrigo; “Put money in your purse!”

And also alleviate the need to puzzle over satire, and sarcasm. O, what a paradise it seems!