Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it's plainly visible once you notice it, and it's everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.

Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.

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[–] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Silicon valley types worry about evil AI destroying the planet. There are a few cults around it even. MIRI is the most well known around here.

That is specifically a system created by people that is two large for any one to control that has goal antithetical to human life and the ability to manipulate people to support it.

What they fail to realize is that they are projecting their alienation under capitlaism unto the specific tools by which capitalism alienates them. It is wild.

[–] DragonNest_Aidit@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Futurists who worries about AI and immortality is the peak form of imperial core privilege. When you are so far removed from want and bathed with wealth that you have to concocts fictional scenarios to worry about. I fucking hate these people.

[–] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I don't hate them. Deep down they want falgsac. They are just so brian poisioned they can't picture any form other than neoliberalism.

Like in the the deep time when we have achived ful nano scale control of all matter and our brains are digiatally stored in cold iron starts orbiting black holes till the heat death of the univere they picture there still being a need for people that specialize in contract law.

[–] NaturalsNotInIt@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

A lot of it is projection as well, another form of Capitalist Realism. If you're a STEM/adjacent person in the West, odds are you work in Defense, Oil&Gas, Auto, Aerospace (which rely on the first 2), or Tech/Entertainment (which makes money the same way tobacco or alcohol or gambling companies do, addiction).

Regardless of what exactly you make, odds are someone down the line you come to realize that what you do for a living is based on either killing people, or killing the planet, or making people miserable by selling them more pointless shit to coerce them to keep working for the empire. So it's definitely possible for you to develop a mindset where you can't even imagine the things you work on being used for anything but Bad - prime example is how Silicon Valley leaders shelter their kids from tech more than fundamentalist Christians. You hear about AI, and of course your brain goes to "how are we gonna use this to sell ads, get people addicted, or bomb other countries"? Because that's what the capitalist world makes technology for.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Capitalism is an artificial intelligence, or at least a god, in the sense that a will is enacted on its behalf that does not rely on any individual person making contingent choices. And it has destroyed the earth.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'd argue it's the demon Mammon, but same thing

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

yeah i normally go with Moloch

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

a blind idiot god... something like a slime mold, chasing food by reflex.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

It's The Moss landlord from Season 2 of Tuca and Bertie

[–] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. It uses people as components is a giant machine that produces only waste and misery.

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

We dwell in the very armpit of Babylon

[–] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Like any other computer it has started to run too fast and the heat it is putting out is going to cook it's substrate