From 27f52e4d7b9861a456d502686cfa6b06412898bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ravenscroftj Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:32:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update brainsteam/content/posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md --- .../09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md b/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md index a9738b2..c3c3182 100644 --- a/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md +++ b/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638.md @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ url: /posts/2023/09/27/crappy-printers-and-crappy-content1695806638

- So then should we just lie down, defeated and adopt a doom and gloom philosophy here? As Kyle Chayka recently wrote, there are parallels here with industrial automation and the Luddite movement and this quote in particular stands out to me (via Simon Willison): + So then should we just lie down, defeated and adopt a doom and gloom philosophy here? As Kyle Chayka recently wrote, there are parallels here with industrial automation and the Luddite movement and this quote in particular stands out to me (via Simon Willison):

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Do we think that social norms will adjust? Well that's interesting because the comparison between what was happening then and what is happening now isn't straight forward. Whilst the industrial revolution changed a lot and made many jobs redundant, it also meant things became cheaper for end consumers and made things more accessible for a large volume of people. In other words, it generated a quality-of-life improvement for everyday people.

On the other hand, most of the benefits of "generative" AI currently being touted by those in the tech industry relate to cost reduction on the supply side rather than providing increased quality of reduced price on the consumer side. Most people already have smartphones, social media accounts and social media accounts and access to huge libraries of content for the price of their attention or some nominal fee. As platforms enshittify, reducing the quality of their "product" and in the same breath increasing their fees, they are actually giving consumers worsening deals.

- At the same time, we're seeing a huge resurgence in indie blogs and federated self-hosted social platforms where people own the content and produce hand-written articles and film videos because they're passionate about what they do. As much as the social media silos try to hide it, people are leaving in droves and corporate replacements are flopping. People are sick of low-quality content and having ads rammed down their throat with increasing aggression and avarice. + At the same time, we're seeing a huge resurgence in indie blogs and federated self-hosted social platforms where people own the content and produce hand-written articles and film videos because they're passionate about what they do. As much as the social media silos try to hide it, people are leaving in droves and corporate replacements are flopping. + +

People are sick of low-quality content and having ads rammed down their throat with increasing aggression and avarice.

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- So, in conclusion: Printers suck, but this is both an innate problem caused by them having to deal with so much fucking Real World, and a local minimum of reliability that we're currently stuck in. Eventually we'll get out of this valley on the graph and printers will bother people a lot less. + So, in conclusion: Printers suck, but this is both an innate problem caused by them having to deal with so much fucking Real World, and a local minima of reliability that we're currently stuck in. Eventually we'll get out of this valley on the graph and printers will bother people a lot less.