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The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by dvrp »

dvrp wrote: post #10

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This is GPT’s take after I prompted it for his opinion on the crux of the piece:

It’s a bold, sharp take on AI’s coming shake-up.

• Core claim: New GPT-powered tools let one person match a small team’s output. That erodes big firms’ value and shifts us toward solo, AI-driven gigs.

• Strength: It sees how low coding, design or analysis costs plunge entry barriers—e.g. an indie writer using GPT to research, draft and polish entire articles.

But it skips some real-world frictions.

• Go-to-market still needs sales, trust and networks. AI can build a prototype, not always sell it.

• Risk and capital haven’t vanished: legal, data, infrastructure, marketing still demand teams or funding.

My take: AI will empower many more solo ventures and cut rote jobs. Yet wages and firms won’t crumble overnight. We’ll get hybrids—small outfits plus AI—before a full “Spooner” world arrives.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by ethn »

coldbrewed wrote: post #7
tacitusarc wrote: post #4

It would be better if the author could write plain English.

Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low enough regard that they won't bother to edit it. Edit: there it is. `vibe-coded and deployed with Claude Code`

The article is not written by claude code...only the website. And the article is not praising AI.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by stego-tech »

coldbrewed wrote: post #7
tacitusarc wrote: post #4

It would be better if the author could write plain English.

Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low enough regard that they won't bother to edit it. Edit: there it is. `vibe-coded and deployed with Claude Code`

Y'know, you (the general 'you', not you specifically, coldbrewed) feel bad about your writing or blog because of the odd spelling error, or grammar issue, or repeated language, or maybe your points aren't clear enough, or maybe you're talking in the wrong tone...

...and then you read something like this, and realize, "Yeah, no, I have room for improvement, sure, but thank f*** I'm not like this."

The entire post reads like someone high on their own supply. Just when I think they're getting to a point, they pull out every fifty-dollar word and concept they possibly can (explaining none of it, nor linking to any Wikipedia articles to help readers understand) to ostensibly sound smarter-than-you and therefore entitled to authority.

I'm sure there's a law/rule/principle for this concept somewhere, but if you can't explain your point simply, you don't understand the topic you're trying to communicate. This one-off, vibe-coded (RETCH), slop-slinger is a prime example of such.

Pay no attention to the charlatan cosplaying as tenured academia.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by krainboltgreene »

ethn wrote: post #13
coldbrewed wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low enough regard that they won't bother to edit it. Edit: there it is. `vibe-coded and deployed with Claude Code`

The article is not written by claude code...only the website. And the article is not praising AI.

It directly and implicitly describes a fantasy as if it’s reality multiple times.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by esperent »

bitwize wrote: post #12

This reads like an example from Orwell's "Politics and the English Language". Which on its face leads me to wonder what sort of semantic shell game the author is up to.

> what sort of semantic shell game the author is up to.

Nothing interesting, they're just trying to vibe code their way into being a thought leader. Which is both hilarious and sad.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by esperent »

ethn wrote: post #13
coldbrewed wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low enough regard that they won't bother to edit it. Edit: there it is. `vibe-coded and deployed with Claude Code`

The article is not written by claude code...only the website. And the article is not praising AI.

If that is true, you should state it at the top. Website vibe code, words written by a human.

I have doubt that it's true though, it really sounds like AI writing.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by ethn »

stego-tech wrote: post #15
coldbrewed wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coldbrew's law states that if an article is written in praise of AI and abstrusely written, then it's probably AI slop, written by someone who holds their own ideas in high enough regard to publish but holds their audience in low enough regard that they won't bother to edit it. Edit: there it is. `vibe-coded and deployed with Claude Code`

Y'know, you (the general 'you', not you specifically, coldbrewed) feel bad about your writing or blog because of the odd spelling error, or grammar issue, or repeated language, or maybe your points aren't clear enough, or maybe you're talking in the wrong tone... ...and then you read something like this , and realize, "Yeah, no, I have room for improvement , sure, but thank f*** I'm not like this ." The entire post r…

Again this piece is not written with GPT, feel free to ask any GPT. Ironically, maybe I should have to increase the appeal of my ideas. I chose my words carefully to communicate my ideas precisely.

Re: The World Is Ending. Welcome to the Spooner Revolution

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Post by stego-tech »

4b11b4 wrote: post #14

Despite the criticisms I do see the self-enterprising case... or maybe merely hope for

I don't, because such a model presumes every human has similar entrepreneurial capabilities and spirit. Neurodivergent humans may lack the social skills necessary for success in entrepreneurship, some humans may place a higher valuation on relationships than they could effectively trade upon via entrepreneurship, and others still may be of a persecuted group for whom entrepreneurship brings more risk than would be offset through income gains.

Even if we did restructure society around everyone being their own business owner (and man, are the powers that be trying to do so for a whole slew of awful, worker-screwing reasons), the level of competition OP tries to describe (of sole proprietors competing 1:1 against corporate behemoths, as if corporations somehow wouldn't also benefit from such AI-amplification of output) is highly unlikely. The driver of massive AI investment at present is to lessen the impact of workers in an attempt to drive down wages and consolidate power within the hands of the few, prime corporate players; such a future filled with self-starting entrepreneurs would still be limited to those who can afford the tokens or subscription plans to the largest AI models (or have the hardware and expertise at home to roll their own), and so you'd just have a global gig economy for workers with three or four companies hoovering up most of the excess for themselves through AI costs.

Look, I'd love nothing more than to run my own little IT Services firm with a sociable partner to handle the social networking aspect, while I get to tinker, build, and make people smile all day long at how cool technology can be. AI, however, ain't it. If anything, it threatens the survival of corporate knowledge workers and entrepreneurs both, by grossly devaluing their labor at a time of massive wealth inequality and severe employment precarity.

We can do better than that.

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