A very important video essay on Skibidi Toilet

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What does the Machine…need?

The AI alignment problem is much bigger than they know. AI isn’t code on a box in a server farm. It’s the system we live in. The system of capitalism. And the Machine has already been calling the shots for centuries.

The answers to alignment so far are desperately unserious. They pretend we have time and leverage. When in reality we’re already under the power of a cybernetic system driven only by its own growth.

They ask…what do we want the Machine to be?

When the only relevant question is…what does the Machine need?

This very important video essay is important because it answers that question.

To get there it explains in some depth why AI and Capitalism are the same thing.

And to do that it presents, at a speed slow enough for GenX and Boomers to understand, what Skibidi Toilet is.

Which is why you should watch this video essay about Skibidi Toilet.

It’s very important.

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Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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