Baldur Bjarnason just put out his interim notes on tech

Reading through his notes, I get the feeling my off-the-cuff predictions from two months ago are very likely to come true - much more likely than I had anticipated. I’m gonna focus on Predictions 2 and 3:

2. A Decline in Tech/STEM Students/Graduates

Whether or not tech crashes like I expect, AI’s likely did some serious damage to the notion of “tech/STEM = high-paying job” as it sent the job industry into turmoil (with junior positions being particularly affected).

3. Tech/STEM’s Public Image Changes - For The Worse

Whilst my original post focused on AI turning the public against the tech industry, one thing I didn’t account for was the tech industry directly aligning itself with Trump. As such, tech/STEM’s public image is now firmly intertwined with Trump’s public image - with predictable results.

“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.

Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

I’ve got some pretty good news for you - Brian Merchant’s been doing plenty of work on rehabilitating the Luddites’ image as well, and in his own words he’s seen plenty of progress on that front.

Remember, kids: Live your life in a way that ensures people don’t lionize your murderer

BOY DO I HAVE THE PERFECT ESSAY TO COMPLEMENT THIS

My hands are requesting the CEO’s home address (in Minecraft real life):

Quick bonus I found in the replies:

And a quick sidenote from me:

This is sorta repeating a previous prediction of mine, but I expect this AI bubble’s gonna utterly tank the public image of tech as a whole. When you develop a tech whose primary use case boils down to “make the world worse so the line can go up”, its gonna be virtually impossible for the public to forgive you.

Being more specific, I expect artists/musicians/creatives in general to be utterly hostile to AI, if not tech as a whole - AI has made their lives significantly harder in a variety of ways, and all signs pointing to the tech industry having done so willingly.

ZITRON DROPPED

🎶Say, Yud, I hear you like em’ young

🎶You better not ever go to Cell Block One

Marketing to pre-teen gamers must be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Don’t even need to do much - Stellar Blade threw some fanservice their way and laughed all the way to the bank. Gamers are stupid.

NASB: GamersNexus just put out a lengthy investigation into NZXT and their predatory practices