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@marquisdegeek

#TormentNexus

Täydellisessä ns. Torment Nexus -hengessä, banaanikärpäsen aivot opetettiin pelaamaan Doomia

Koska... miksipä ei.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/09/13/banaanikarpasen-aivot-opetettiin-pelaamaan-doomia

#banaanikärpänen #doom #aivo #aivot #tutkimus #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka #tormentnexus

A friend shared the AI2027 paper with the group chat and it was amazing to see how much of this "research backed forecast" is just a mediocre fanfic rewrite of "Colossus - The Forbin Project".

So THAT is what the AI industry is using to explain its future to the public and policymakers? What a letdown.

As a fan of classic Sci Fi cinema, it's eye opening to notice how that much of the AI industry's understanding of itself is just fantastic movie plots in a smoothie blender.

#tormentnexus

I've been thinking recently about how the current LLM craze (and the cryptocurrency craze before it) is quite like the "Cash for Ash" scandal in Northern Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal

At its kernel, we've got this terrible idea, but we've also got externalisation of costs so that it's the users of the system that are the ones choosing to ignore the environmental costs presumably out of some sort of economic rationale.

If they are comparable, and I think they are, there needs to be a reckoning, not just for the users, but for the crafters at the centre of the scheme.

#RHI #CashForAsh #TormentNexus #Environment #Externalisation #Economics #RationalActors