• SufferingSteve@feddit.nu
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    8 days ago

    There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the AI crawling cpu overhead.

    What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.

    Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

    What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

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        8 days ago

        I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don’t care what kind of system you’re under, you’re going to have to deal with other people.

        Oh, and if you try the system where you don’t have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.

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          7 days ago

          In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.

          The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.

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          7 days ago

          It matters a lot though what kind of goal the system incentivises. Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits.