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by dudeinjapan 674 days ago
Timothy Leary said PCs are the LSD of the 1990s. If that’s true, then AI is definitely the LSD of the 2020s.
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Given "it's" particular style of hallucinations, I'd put AI more on a mushroom scale.
The LSD of this century is social networks. People now see reality through them, with distortions and all.
Social networks were the LSD of the 2000s and 2010s. I would say the "cocaine" of those decades, because it wasn't particularly enlightening, it made some of us belligerent, and at this point we all regret it. At least we're starting to build some tolerance now.
You'll have to define "we all". Politically, most discourse that matters still flows through Facebook and Twitter/X, and will likely continue to do so until alternatives emerge.

Once knowledge moved to the online world, it was inevitable that debate would follow. This cat is not going back in the bag. We might refine our tools a little bit, but things are unlikely to change significantly for a very long time - possibly ever.

> This cat is not going back in the bag. We might refine our tools a little bit, but things are unlikely to change significantly for a very long time - possibly ever.

Yes, agreed. This is called "addiction".

Tweeted this in 2021: “The current state of artificial intelligence is on psychedelics and we are simply trying to sober it up.”

Src: https://x.com/miguelace_/status/1362646383077978115?s=46&t=g...

AI is on LSD not THE LSD smh
If you look at how PCs were used in the 1990s some of it was pretty trippy, so you could also say "PCs were on LSD." Take Andy Warhol's Amiga: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/watch-andy-warhol-computer-art...
Cursed Andy Warhol MSPaint 1.0 selfie