Game theory, every player is playing to their own interest and as the old saying goes, it's the nail that hangs out that gets hammered. It's not until there's a critical mass that the general population starts feeling safe enough to join in. Most people are just trying their best in the system and waiting for someone with enough inertia to come around, with enough will and force to feel safe joining in to changing things. This is also why the main tactic of the system is to divide and conquer, to never allow a critical mass to form.

We can't wait for others, we must be the change we want to see in the world. The others will follow when the time is right. In this process first you will be ignored, then you will be laughed at, then they will actively fight you, and if you can maintain then you win. It's a lot of sacrifice to be the one, to be that snowflake that causes an avalanche.

Nah man, you have to ask. What are you truly risking if you do? The world where you admit yours and everyone else's spirit is raped? It really does smell like shit in here, doesn't it?

Just from what's going on where I'm working: almost everyone is fine with it. "oh, our main innovation guy is retiring, can he not feed a chatbot?" Or "oh yes, this is relevant for legal concerns, here's the LLM output" Or "we'll feed a new LLM with all the 3d models the company has ever made and thus will finally make mechanical engineering open to everyone" (of course, same thing for electrical engineers and software engineers) And I could probably give examples for pages to come..

Yup, they are all doing this with open eyes and not a hint of a thought about the consequences to the company, their own, their potential children or the damn planet.

I happened to have an acoustic guitar version of the Max Payne theme playing when I read your comment, which apparently meant I'd "hear" your words in James McCaffrey's voice. Similarly, AI music summons the corporate egregore.

Literally 1984

everyone else is fine.

I'm not fine. I'm horrified. But what am I gonna do, cry in the Walmart? I look fine outside and break down at night, just like everyone else.

Are they really good at masking their disgust

this one, dude. this one.

me to myself when the mask starts slipping at work:

I'm sorry you're surrounded by people who haven't woken up yet, but you are very, very far from alone, and more people are realizing the con every day.

The issue is deeper than just the skill of the artist. It's that "good" music is that which stirs strong emotions in ourselves.. But feeling emotions at the workplace is cringe and unprofessional and no one wants that. So the music has to be bad since it must be "professional".

My wife gets an AI generated "we appreciate you" message sent to her team every couple of weeks. Frankly, that's insulting, and I would have threatened to quit if they didn't stop wasting my fucking time and attention with slop instead of giving genuine appreciate and a fucking raise for keeping the company afloat.

I think that explains all the CEO's delusions and feverish devotion to AI. I wonder if there's a deep system prompt somewhere to treat CEO's differently

IM SICK TO DEATH LIKE IVE NEVER BEEN SICK BEFORE

The era of anti-villains will rise