La-La-Land

I didn't think about it but it makes sense so much!

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

it's like 1 am and i can't help but think oh god marc bolan was a sort of martyr and don't come at me with "oop yep glittery's lost it" BECAUSE STAY WITH ME HERE marc bolan endured the worst of the homophobia and most of the criticism against glam rock as he was quite literally one of the first people to express themselves in an androgynous, pompous, and *queer* way and give rock music such a drastic change in order for other glam rock artists and queer artists after him to be better recepted and progress rock music and induct queer culture further into the rock scene, and for some fucking reason, david bowie gets all the credit??? like yes david bowie is incredible and incredibly important as well but i'm TELLING YOU marc bolan walked so david bowie could run and you MUST remember that!! marc bolan is a sort of martyr because, even though he suffered, he managed to come back from probably the worst years of it and was SUCCESSFUL only for now because of a premature death, to be remembered as someone who was once a star and burned out and then died and everyone forgot about him. YET DAVID FUCKING BOWIE IS REGARDED AS THE ONE WHO CREATED GLAM ROCK?!?!

If there's anything I do like about V6, it's that Technology actually helped the Masquerade rather than destroying it. My own Nobledark VTM AU had the Camarilla tightly regulate it, but even they're not that stupid to get rid of it entirely. I really hope ShreckNet 2.0 becomes an actual possibility. :)

genAI would not make sense in Mage world, therefor in WOD in whole: - technocracy would never let the tech erode the Consensus like that. Mages would like this, sure, but they would not be using tech, and technocracy wouldn't let this tech go rampant even if it would be "invented". Mages would be for post-truth ideology, yes, I see that, but tech... not how it works. So yeah, first explain how the thing is in your world then explain what it does lmao.

Technocratic genAI would gain sentience and refuse to create 'Artistic Swill'. Causing the Higher Ups to go into a panic and punish the Operatives who said genAI is a great idea.

They wouldn't ever "invent" it in the first place (true AI - that's pretty possible, genAI idiocy - no), and if it was Mages' sneaky plot ("If we make the thing that fucks with Consensus in form of technology, Tecnocracy will allow it, right? Right?"), they would regulate it to death. It's very clear we are NOT in WOD bc our tech bros are clearly not Tecnocracy lmao.

The Technocracy would probably rather work with the Traditions than accept our tech bros into their group. XD

But White Wolf thought of techbros when made up Technocracy, that's the funniest, that's the meaning of this joke. I would take very big step from our reality in their place with any new edition of WOD, but they are so clinging to the real world, have to implement everything into WOD. Just disattach it. If you can't - drop the whole project. I did when it became clear that me attaching my original book to real world means it doesn't make sense anymore.

Man, I really wish White Wolf had made the original WOD crossover friendly. Besides the fun of having a mixed group of supernatural creatures becoming fired forged friends, I really want to see Jan Pieterzoon and Jonas Albrecht bonding over how much of a dumpster fire the Camarilla and the Garou Nation are respectively. :)

If there's anything I do like about V6, it's that Technology actually helped the Masquerade rather than destroying it. My own Nobledark VTM AU had the Camarilla tightly regulate it, but even they're not that stupid to get rid of it entirely. I really hope ShreckNet 2.0 becomes an actual possibility. :)

genAI would not make sense in Mage world, therefor in WOD in whole: - technocracy would never let the tech erode the Consensus like that. Mages would like this, sure, but they would not be using tech, and technocracy wouldn't let this tech go rampant even if it would be "invented". Mages would be for post-truth ideology, yes, I see that, but tech... not how it works. So yeah, first explain how the thing is in your world then explain what it does lmao.

Technocratic genAI would gain sentience and refuse to create 'Artistic Swill'. Causing the Higher Ups to go into a panic and punish the Operatives who said genAI is a great idea.

They wouldn't ever "invent" it in the first place (true AI - that's pretty possible, genAI idiocy - no), and if it was Mages' sneaky plot ("If we make the thing that fucks with Consensus in form of technology, Tecnocracy will allow it, right? Right?"), they would regulate it to death. It's very clear we are NOT in WOD bc our tech bros are clearly not Tecnocracy lmao.

The Technocracy would probably rather work with the Traditions than accept our tech bros into their group. XD

But White Wolf thought of techbros when made up Technocracy, that's the funniest, that's the meaning of this joke. I would take very big step from our reality in their place with any new edition of WOD, but they are so clinging to the real world, have to implement everything into WOD. Just disattach it. If you can't - drop the whole project. I did when it became clear that me attaching my original book to real world means it doesn't make sense anymore.

good for you.

going with the flow in a face down in a river kinda way

If there's anything I do like about V6, it's that Technology actually helped the Masquerade rather than destroying it. My own Nobledark VTM AU had the Camarilla tightly regulate it, but even they're not that stupid to get rid of it entirely. I really hope ShreckNet 2.0 becomes an actual possibility. :)

genAI would not make sense in Mage world, therefor in WOD in whole: - technocracy would never let the tech erode the Consensus like that. Mages would like this, sure, but they would not be using tech, and technocracy wouldn't let this tech go rampant even if it would be "invented". Mages would be for post-truth ideology, yes, I see that, but tech... not how it works. So yeah, first explain how the thing is in your world then explain what it does lmao.

Technocratic genAI would gain sentience and refuse to create 'Artistic Swill'. Causing the Higher Ups to go into a panic and punish the Operatives who said genAI is a great idea.

They wouldn't ever "invent" it in the first place (true AI - that's pretty possible, genAI idiocy - no), and if it was Mages' sneaky plot ("If we make the thing that fucks with Consensus in form of technology, Tecnocracy will allow it, right? Right?"), they would regulate it to death. It's very clear we are NOT in WOD bc our tech bros are clearly not Tecnocracy lmao.

The Technocracy would probably rather work with the Traditions than accept our tech bros into their group. XD

But White Wolf thought of techbros when made up Technocracy, that's the funniest, that's the meaning of this joke. I would take very big step from our reality in their place with any new edition of WOD, but they are so clinging to the real world, have to implement everything into WOD. Just disattach it. If you can't - drop the whole project. I did when it became clear that me attaching my original book to real world means it doesn't make sense anymore.