• Shitgenstein1@awful.systemsOP
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    6 months ago

    s’alright, tho. It was always a cynical marketing strat to convert hyper-online nerd anxiety into investor hype. may want to check on Big Yud. Idk if anyone has heard from him since his Time Mag article coming onto a year old now, not that I tried.

    Some of the risks the team worked on included “misuse, economic disruption, disinformation, bias and discrimination, addiction, and overreliance.”

    Conspicuous lack of grey goo or hyper-persuasive brainhacking. Still really good at being confidently wrong about basic shit!

    • YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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      6 months ago

      you just made me extremely aware of where i was, what i was doing, and how i was feeling, when i found out that the yud had an article in Time, and I am going to sue for the whiplash of realising how short a time ago that was