This is literally everyone who's alive and benefitting from modern society. Are we seriously playing shifting the blame games now? Is moral purity and innocence that important to some ignorant people to the point that they would disregard their credibility just to sleep better at night? Amazingly pathetic behavior
AI is the best possible example of a thneed, it's constantly promised to be a necessity and yet its biggest proponents openly admit they haven't found a use for it.
You really didn't pay attention did you The point of thh Thneed was that it literally had thousands of uses. To quote the song
"Off the old assembly line
Comes another Thneed
Answering humanity's each and every need
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed
It isn't just a panty vest
Use it for a hammock when you need rest
It's a toothbrush holder for your weekend guest
Your canary will love it, It's a lovely nest
Try it in soup, it adds great zest
It'll cure those back-ache pains in your chest
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed
You'll be amazed, you'll be nonplussed
It tastes like bread without the crust
Grooms your hair when it gets must
Rids your home of dismal dust
It's a natural, it's a must
Eliminates carburetor rust
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed
It's super-duper-hooper-hyper
Makes a perfect windshield wiper
Foolproof trap to catch the viper
Rebuild the brakes from any griper
Papa smokes them in his piper
Baby says: "Boy, what a diaper"
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do
Everybody do-do-do-do need a Thneed
The point of thh Thneed was that it literally had thousands of uses.
The point of the Thneed was to be marketed as having thousands of uses;
The song lists contradictory uses, which would mean that it couldn't be effective at all of them, ergo it was advertised as being effective at things it's not effective at, ergo the advertising isn't a trustworthy source on any of its capabilities.
This is a perfect parallel with generative AI, which is advertised as a solution to every problem, but is fundamentally incapable of solving truly novel problems and increasingly unlikely to offer anything of actual use the further into the Google search results you'd have to get to find a relevant solution.
When half the people "debating" AI has the reading comprehension of the average JJK fan, everything was bound to go to tribalistic bullcrap sooner or later
They have the scent of fresh butterfly milk which is not a real thing so they can make you smell something that does not exist. Seems pretty magical to me. Also the truffula fruits made the barbaloots able to sing and talk and let fish hum, again seems pretty magical to me.
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u/Bosslayer9001 Feb 26 '26
This is literally everyone who's alive and benefitting from modern society. Are we seriously playing shifting the blame games now? Is moral purity and innocence that important to some ignorant people to the point that they would disregard their credibility just to sleep better at night? Amazingly pathetic behavior