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Written by Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on 2025-01-15 at 21:58

"The records clearly state that AI ended their civilization."

"But that's ridiculous, the technology was nowhere near AI. They only had the most basic quantum computers, they were centuries away from that kind of capability."

"Yes - a student of mine suggests they simply thought they had developed AI."

"So? That can't have destroyed a civilization?"

"The thesis is that it can, if people actually believed it."

"No civilization would be that daft."

[#]MicroSF

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2025-01-16 at 00:30

@_thegeoff if I may, a real-life article I cannot stop posting where relevant explaining more about how this belief happened (and I think is the best explanation so far):

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm [... but] the believers in the “AI” bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles [...] This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics

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