as brought up in the stubsack
Ah yes, a16z.
I’m not saying they’re the stupidest fucks in this solar system, but I’m also very much not saying that either.
It’s all about finding an angle, no matter how creepy, and going for it
Out of my sample of Anime fans who actively participate in the hobby and spend money on it,
100% of them hate genAI primarily because, and I quote, “if I pay you $40 for something and it is exactly equivalent to what a $0.05 prompt garbage result would be, I won’t pay you again.”
Fans, the real fans, can tell. Like, this is their whole hobby brah.
Money represents the aggregate value of the intersection between human labour, ingenuity and scarce finite resources. Human lives are routinely rendered down, ground up and consumed by the drive to generate this representative value. Entire ways of living, forms of self perception and our understanding of what makes a human worthy of existing is inextricably wrapped up in this value generating process.
As a society we have declared that these people are best placed to decide what to do with that value. They chose anime.
No, see, if they chose anime that would at least represent an investment in the creation of something however questionable it’s overall value for the level of resources involved.
Instead they see anime as a thing people like and are trying to link their existing AI and crypto concepts to it in order to bouy their public perception and get a halo effect going.
They’re not choosing to put that value in anime, they’re hoping to use anime to make the things they did choose seem more valuable than they are, because otherwise they made horrible choices and won’t be given as large a share of society’s surplus output to use on the next thing.
from bsky:
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