Warning : Reality Is Escaping Out The Back Door

You’re right. Actors = overpaid primadonnas. They will be replaced by AI generated actors. I see the time (soonish) when the script, the movie, the actors will all be AI created. There is no doubt that the studios want this because they can get rid of all the money pits. Cost to produce a movie will fall to pennies. The masses will be truly be in Huxley’s world where Soma will just be non-stop entertainment.

I particularly liked your question about the UAW strike. It represents that singular point in space time when reality and anti-reality actually come into physical contact with each other. And from what I’ve learned from sci-fi in general is that when matter and anti-matter come into direct contact? Bad things inevitably and immediately follow.

Setting aside the great chasm that is defining what AI really is in theory vs in practice, AI is getting a lot of attention which suggests something is afoot that has nothing to do with AI.

There is a kind of suggestiveness to it all along the lines of green energy and the rest of the alt-reality that always requires a massive regulatory, financial, and social-engineering efforts to incentivize capital investment, retooling opportunity costs, and the associated risks – as well as marshalling consumer demand and adoption of the various clumsy piece of progress touted as elegant solutions [to problems that don’t yet exist].

But don’t worry, the problems will exist, by nature of introducing free-radical solutions and forcing them into a system that does not want or need them.

If it feels a lot like how the totalitarian sects invent solutions to various human problems that aren’t solvable and then force everyone to live under those solutions which in turn amplifies those problems such that those solutions are then justified (and then increased, to infinity aka mass graves) its no accident.

Time and again this breaks down once any of those artificial constructs has to self-sustain based on maths or other principles of reality that these top-down, centralized plans leapfrog.

While there is no doubt that many functions are being encouraged to join the AI convergence, the promise of replacing humans has always been a core selling-point of progress, but also one of the most over-stated. Somehow all that productivity never quite trickles down into leisure time or higher wages.

That said it is interesting to note how in this iteration they have done away with the lies about leisure and income and gone straight to the threat of ‘you will be replaced’.

Which in my mind is on par with the lateness of the globohomo empire and its complete reliance on brute force. An notion more worthy of meditation than how some algo that has been ritually abused by degenerate faggots and angry women is going to be cranking out symphonies and novels.

Said differently, an empire built on lies and employing entire industries tasked to suppress the truth and shape the lies into narrative cannot hand these over to a machine predicated on logic, absent the kind of heavy-handed clown world kilt-lifting we already have to endure.

I suspect the writers are wrestling with old-fashioned issues relating to how the marketplace is shifting away from distributed revenue from subscription models to the impact of a disaggregated streaming model in the same way ESPN is going to have to reckon with the loss of revenue from packaged cable deals disaggregating.

Media writing is a terrible job, a lot like acting, in that the apex fallacy of actors and writers casts an unrealistic light on the entire business. For every Brad Pitt and Taylor Sheridan, there are scores of working writers who work infrequently, seasonally, part-time, and for “warehousing” content that rely upon the old model of syndication and contractual packaging of short-term revenue spikes into long-duration revenue streams.

The way media content is being consumed has changed but there is a massive lag in how the creators are able to capture revenue/royalties, sell content into the markets, and retain creative rights in light of these changes.

Without nearly the fanfare of hollywood, this has already been happening for a long time now within content creation in print and on the “internet”. Copywriting and long-form were gutted and skinsuited into the black box empire of lies gulag of click/traffic/”algos” and the sharp devolution of reading into multimedia “scrolling”.

The result was as a freelancer making $1 per word or $500 per story or some other aggregate of content and original concept creation, nearly overnight the buyers market went to SEO and inverted the value proposition from content to traffic and so rates went to $0.05 per word and you have to write like a 4th grader girl on adderal.

While this space is all basically AI, if not in form then in function, real people are still making real content that other real people want to consume. The idiocracy aside, the Book People living along the river will always want to consume the human experience. The uncanny valley of the NPC’s and their mechanized handlers cannot be bridged. with what passes for “AI”.

Universal basic income has one problem that seems to get ignored by those that promote it. Where does the money come from? If I collect it, why should I work to pay into it? If I don’t get it, why should I work my butt off to give it to somebody else?

Same problem with the 15 minute city. What jobs are there? Where is the revenue? Are we supposed to take in each others laundry? Are you supposed to live atop a factory? The promoters seem to be a little shy on details.