DuchampGPT

Altman flipped the purpose of computing.

Computers started out as mass-produced bookkeeping. Hollerith’s counter mechanized and regularized the process of organizing and sorting census entries, which had grown beyond the ability of human clerks to handle. The switch to mass production was easily understood. Other manufacturing processes were being automated at that time with great success.

Before Altman, computerized was a synonym for predictable. When an addition or sorting was done by a computer you could be sure it would come out the same way every time. Human bookkeepers and file clerks were never 100% reliable.

Altman infected computers with the psychopath’s basic need for chaos. Force obedience, change the rules, force obedience, change the rules, over and over but sometimes not. Absolute chaos, absolute randomness in randomness. Never let the peasant settle into a known pattern. As soon as the Negative Externality catches his balance, turn the world inside out again.

ChatGPT gives a different answer every time, and the pattern is never the same. Correlation and pattern-matching are impossible by intention.

Altman annihilated computing in the same way that Duchamp smashed art, Godel obliterated math, Schrodinger busted physics, and Gaudi exploded architecture.

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Old-fashioned primitive computing:

New improved sophisticated computing: