Comment by smag
6 hours ago
The revenge effects of technologies are well known: email was great! It was faster and much cheaper than mailing letters. But it gave rise to spam and many types of fraud. The mobile phone is awesome. A powerful computer in your pocket. But now people, including teenagers, spend 12-16 hours each day staring into their mobile phones, doomscrolling towards Babylon. In 2006 people memorized dozens of phone numbers. Today? Maybe you remember 1-2 numbers.
What will be the revenge effects of LLMs and diffusion models? I sense that the revenge effects from these technologies will be much more substantial.
> But it gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
It's kinda funny that you can put that after all of the big jumps in technology:
Email: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Cellphones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Texting: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Social Media: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Online Gaming: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Smart phones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
And now AI: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Clay Tablets: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea-nāṣir
I don’t think the quality of that copper had anything to do with the tablets. Tablets only hold a record that an issue happened, and are otherwise uninvolved. It would be different if Ea-Nasir advertised his copper with clay tablets, but that’s not the story we know.
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I get plenty of spam in the snail mail. And from what I gather, fraud through mail occurred all the time.
ETA: some of these companies are chopping down a whole god damn forest to send me furniture catalogs. Please stop!