Software Is Beating The World
We recorded 3 claims from this post. 3 can’t be checked. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (3)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Generative excites them because it allows them to LARP in the creative arts without the troublesome task of learning or doing something.”
What we tested: Effective accelerationists are excited by generative AI because it lets them pretend to do creative work without learning or doing anything.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“They see ChatGPT and Midjourney as ample replacements for writers and artists because they fundamentally lack any creative energy, existing as joyless vessels hoarding more capital and attention in the hopes it makes them forget that they’ve fundamentally created nothing.”
What we tested: Advocates of growth-at-all-costs regard ChatGPT and Midjourney as adequate replacements for writers and artists because they themselves lack creativity.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“It shouldn’t surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of other people’s ideas.”
What we tested: It should not surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of other people's ideas.