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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I periodically come back to Weizenbaum on computing as a conservative force. The example he uses is banking - without a technological invention, banks would have needed to reinvent themselves socially. But the PC made things fast enough for inefficiencies and contradictions to remain tolerable.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In the sense that AI is "revolutionary" it is a counter-revolution. Normally a funding crisis would force organizations to reevaluate what work is valuable to the org and what products are valuable to customers. Then along comes AI and says, no that's not necessary, keep on keeping on.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The two fundamentals of generative AI seem unrelated but they are actually inextricable: - generating Stuff at scale has never been cheaper - you don't need a value proposition as long as AI is involved somehow The result is that instead of removing the bullshit jobs, AI glorifies them.

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