Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that’s “Ai,” not “AI” — has finally thrown in the towel. After Humane took $230 million in …
There’s something kind of obscene about that, isn’t there? Like, instead of needing to exercise judgement about what’s going to be a good investment in either the profit-generating or the world-improving senses you just have enough money to keep throwing at whatever weird grifter has the right energy this week, but if you repeat it enough and throw enough money down enough holes then you might accidentally end up becoming the richest of all the rich assholes.
It’s like turning being a shitty poker player into a business plan by assuming (correctly) that you’ll always be able to rebuy after you lose your stake.
@YourNetworkIsHaunted@slazer2au yes. Out of all the mechanisms we could have had for deciding how the future is built, we have chosen the absolute worst
There’s something kind of obscene about that, isn’t there? Like, instead of needing to exercise judgement about what’s going to be a good investment in either the profit-generating or the world-improving senses you just have enough money to keep throwing at whatever weird grifter has the right energy this week, but if you repeat it enough and throw enough money down enough holes then you might accidentally end up becoming the richest of all the rich assholes.
It’s like turning being a shitty poker player into a business plan by assuming (correctly) that you’ll always be able to rebuy after you lose your stake.
@YourNetworkIsHaunted @slazer2au yes. Out of all the mechanisms we could have had for deciding how the future is built, we have chosen the absolute worst