With all due respect, we have pills for obesity and computers think. If that doesn’t get you excited about the future, nothing will.

The pill has more power in the argument here. Thinking is still nebulous and the same could have been said in the 70-80s.

The magic weight loss pill really is groundbreaking.

However, the gap has widened massively between who reaps the most from advancement.

Case point, uncle and aunt are wealthy. Last time i meet them they barely eat. Both on Ozempic. Neither are fat let alone overweight. This was years ago.

No one is excited because they do not just feel but are literally being left behind.

So far the main effect of "computers think" has been making my job both more precarious and more miserable— talking to agents all day instead of writing code sucks ass and I want to die by the end of it, it's like spending all day on Slack with particularly dimwitted coworkers. What about that should make me excited?

Ok cool. Computers think. They're (trying to) use that to literally replace regular people. And not in a Star Trek way. "Permanent underclass" way. That's bad.

I would rather we not have technology than have people starving en masse. Literally our best hope is that the rich bastards are lying that they'll be able to do it to scam other rich bastards.

When I was in high school we were able to have an app that made it look like you were drinking beer. And the internet produced rainbow unicorn attack and nyan cat.

I was very optimistic about nyan cat. I'm very unoptimistic about nobody being able to afford computers for the next 5+ years.

Also since this thread is about general malaise - I am finding myself rather missing GW Bush's jovial brand of imperialism and cronyism. Strange fate.