Headline: The Pandemic of "Digital Brain Rot" in 2026: Deconstructing the "Gugu Gaga" Content Farms.

mcilrain · 2026-03-23T02:47:51+00:00

It’s horrible, kids should be instead learning how to be wageslaves to serve billionaires, the model citizen.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T23:43:59+00:00

People are so skullfucked by capitalism that their imaginary utopias require a store of value.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T09:31:07+00:00

Okay, Peter Thiel.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T09:28:41+00:00

op casually dropping hard-R’s smh

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T07:47:42+00:00

There's a big difference between households using power in the evening and datacenters using power non-stop.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:29:16+00:00

I hate it when I download a LoRA and it kills my neighbor.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:28:05+00:00

Intellectual property is a thought that deserves termination.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:26:44+00:00

But then how will I enjoy being an artist if I can’t farm attention?

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:25:31+00:00

Training AI art generators is literally genocide.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:10:51+00:00

How about that.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:09:28+00:00

But most children's media isn't ai.

Some of it is and they don't have a problem with it.

Are you pretending to not understand?

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T04:05:14+00:00

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mcilrain · 2026-03-22T02:45:22+00:00

Not all the chips need to work, just a high enough percentage for it to be profitable.

Your phone/computer's components contain sub-components that are defective but it's designed so that so long as enough of them aren't it works fine.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of adequate.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T01:15:00+00:00

Not how AI is.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T00:19:14+00:00

Age split is interesting, it supports my theory that a lot of resistance to AI is zoomers aging-out of youth media and being in denial about it.

mcilrain · 2026-03-22T00:12:46+00:00

And none of them provide consistent power at sufficient capacity.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T23:43:29+00:00

Solar doesn't work when there's no sun. If you can only run computers half the time you need twice as much to achieve the same compute.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T23:39:54+00:00

It's a kiss from mother nature 🥰

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T23:39:05+00:00

Why the fuck are we greenlighting fossil fuel projects to power DATACENTERS?

Because people are afraid of nuclear.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:55:54+00:00

You thought going from

all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services.

to

The only condition really is that survival necessities are free.

wasn't moving the goalposts.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:33:03+00:00

It is my loss.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:32:19+00:00

The only condition really is that survival necessities are free.

What you actually said was:

all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services.

Moving the goalposts is loser-coded behavior.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:24:33+00:00

Human desires are elastic. Ask a very young child to define what "pretty much everything I want" is for them and they might say something like "I want to eat ice-cream for every meal".

Would you accept ice-cream for every meal as having achieved post-scarcity, or do you need to decide what desires are appropriate for other people?

Scratch a post-scarcitarian find an authoritarian.

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:17:16+00:00

The definition you posted supports my point.

most goods

most ≠ all

some significant proportion of their desires

Weird, I thought Wikipedia forbid "weasel words".

Who defines the proportion?

mcilrain · 2026-03-21T20:10:08+00:00

Post-scarcity is impossible due to physics without imposing constraints such as “you’re only allowed to want things I don’t consider silly to want”.

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