This morning I was watching a video detailing usage of a knitting machine, and it had me thinking how utterly brainrotted the "tech" industry is with the idea that tools/machines are supposed to make it so you don't have to think or need skills.
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This morning I was watching a video detailing usage of a knitting machine, and it had me thinking how utterly brainrotted the "tech" industry is with the idea that tools/machines are supposed to make it so you don't have to think or need skills.
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@dalias The tech industry has, to a large extent, made money by devaluing skill.
(This is the entire value proposal of the generative AI industry.)
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@datarama Yeah, but it's like they're high on their own supply.
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@dalias Absolutely, and I hate it. It is a large part of why following the wider tech sector makes me so miserable and alienated.
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@datarama At least it makes sense selling capitalists the fantasy that they don't need skilled labor. But they carried this over into their approach to trying to sell tools to the general public not made up of capitalists, and are trying to sell them their projected fantasy of owning a slave...
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@dalias This is part of why I don't like natural language interfaces in machines. Natural language, to me, is a means to relate to people and express things relevant to human relationships. I don't want to communicate with machines like they're people.
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@datarama Natural language necessarily involves shared context and opportunity for disambiguation on demand. Neither of these make sense in operating a tool.
