#freddiedeboer — Public Fediverse posts

My techno-pessimism is a pessimism grounded in a fact derived from the historical record: civilizational-scale technological transformation is extraordinarily rare, that it happened once in a rapidly-receding extraordinary century, and that we have been living in its long shadow ever since. And now some mistake that shadow for the sun.

#FreddieDeBoer #BitsAreEasyAtomsAreHard #AI #OverPromiseUnderDeliver
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-are-still-living-in-the-long-boring

Competent adults simply aren’t suffering from an inability to do what LLM-based AI systems can do for them. The really useful stuff is firmly in the realm of science fiction, like claims that AI will eliminate money or end death. The actually possible just offloads work, often to little practical consequence.

#FreddieDeBoer #AI #Hype #Competence
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-shitting-in-the-yard-test

“Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror” by #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-healthcare-system-a-reign-of

The need to find value where it might not actually exist is an essential part of capitalism. But it certainly could happen that there’s some event that causes the markets to suddenly recognize that what these #AI products actually do could never justify the truly immense costs of building and running them, and if that happens, watch out.

#FreddieDeBoer #Hype #Underwhelming
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/who-says-another-google-is-coming

The need to find value where it might not actually exist is an essential part of capitalism. But it certainly could happen that there’s some event that causes the markets to suddenly recognize that what these #AI products actually do could never justify the truly immense costs of building and running them, and if that happens, watch out.

#FreddieDeBoer #Hype #Underwhelming
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/who-says-another-google-is-coming

...a form of engagement, quintessentially Millennial, that’s defined by a combination of self-righteous liberal politics, out-of-date internet lingo, terms from university humanities departments that have become mimetic in the past decade, and a performative, shit-eating quality of being perpetually amused with oneself ...It’s fake courage as meme, a rehearsed facsimile of self-confidence deployed by people who’ll never know the real thing

#FreddieDeBoer #MillennialSnot
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/everyone-online-sounds-like-an-absolute

“This is, to me, a Rosetta Stone for early 21st-century liberal politics, an impossibly perfect symbolic object. A bunch of young idealistic Millennials who tweeted all day about intersectionality and dismantling patriarchy worked for an organization that thought nothing of exploiting its internal culture of immense professional pressure to compel vulnerable interns to drink piss.” #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-a-try-guy

Rebellious individualism is a quaint anachronism in an era where everyone is pointing a camera at their own face all the time - the only kind of individualism is the kind that makes you just like everyone else...

#FreddieDeBoer #Poptimism
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-few-indisputable-points-about-poptimism

Rebellious individualism is a quaint anachronism in an era where everyone is pointing a camera at their own face all the time - the only kind of individualism is the kind that makes you just like everyone else...

#FreddieDeBoer #Poptimism
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-few-indisputable-points-about-poptimism

Rebellious individualism is a quaint anachronism in an era where everyone is pointing a camera at their own face all the time - the only kind of individualism is the kind that makes you just like everyone else...

#FreddieDeBoer #Poptimism
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-few-indisputable-points-about-poptimism

"Once Jesus left conservatism, it ceased to have any intellectual foundation at all, and so became profoundly vulnerable to a strange kind of capture that produces Not Liberals. Call it MAGA or the new right or whatever you would like, it’s an ideology based on getting annoyed at self-righteous Democrats. The dark irony, of course, is that this is just another way to let liberals dictate your life." #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-goes-on-in-the-public-bathrooms

"Why do you think those billionaires keep pouring absurd amounts of money into school reform, despite decade after decade of failure? Because they know the alternative is to take some of their money and give it away." #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-doesnt-work

Freddie deBoer takes a more nuanced look at issues in the #MiddleEast

“#Palestine is a Chinese finger trap; the more #Israel pulls away, the more tightly the conflict will grip the country. The only way out is through de-escalation and the only permanent de-escalation is through formal legal recognition of Palestinians in the territories as full citizens in a democratic system."

#hamas #gaza #FreddiedeBoer
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/goliaths-will-to-be-david

A good piece on YIMBYism by #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-yimby-movement-demonstrates-social

"Contrarianism is monetizable in our current media landscape. I know because I’ve monetized it." #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-democrats-are-bad-but-we-cant

// i love how self-aware he is about this stuff, from a very well-calibrated piece

"I don’t know how people can simultaneously talk about prison abolition and restoring the idea of forgiveness to literal criminal justice and at the same time turn the entire social world into a kangaroo court system. Like I wrote once, we can’t simultaneously be a movement based on rehabilitation and restorative justice AND a viciously judgmental moral aristocracy."

- #FreddieDeBoer, 2017

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops