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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Aug-2025 05:19:48 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   People keep describing “AI” as “low effort” but that’s not accurate. It’s high effort on the back end (training, etc) and variable effort on the front.

   Sometimes it saves work. Sometimes it’s more work.

   This doesn’t really have any direct parallels in industrial or tech history

   Also given that political history is repeating itself (fascism and authoritarianism) in a collapsing environment, expecting technological history to repeat itself is itself an incredibly unsafe assumption.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Aug-2025 05:19:47 JST tinydoctor

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     @baldur More work, less work, it bends toward evil.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Aug-2025 05:44:53 JST tinydoctor

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     @baldur Technologies are not neutral. It's not what you do with it; it's what it does to you and the world when you use it.