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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
RE: (meta?)speculation about the quantum bubble. So the preceding two tech bubbles tried to worm their way into the arts: NFTs, and slop. How do we think the quantum hucksters are gonna try co-opt craativity?
No idea, but the big problem area to look out for imho is when it gets matched with quantum woo again. And if people manage to link that to computers.
Quantum as a concept doesnāt really have any way to co-opt creativity that I can see - its a rather āscience-yā concept in the public eye, far away from anything associated with the arts.
Probably wonāt stop the hucksters, though - theyāll happily make shit up if it means butting in on artistsā turf.
Lots of woo and mysticism already has a veneer of stolen Quantum terminology. Itās too far from respectable to get the quasi-expert endorsement or easy VC money that LLM hype has gotten, but quantum hucksters fusing quantum computing nonsense with quantum mysticism can probably still con lots of people out of their money.
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At the risk of doing some āfounder modeā idiotās homework for them, impermanence is inherent to a lot of artforms, and I can see some insane and vague pitches to use quantum to ācapture the magic momentā. Or maybe they tie it back into NFTs with quantum technology that comes up with every variant of the bored chimpanzee at once.