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I think so?

I've not seen anyone take Gas Town seriously or even semi-seriously in the way people take Openclaw semi-seriously.

Gas Town certainly seems like a concept for performance art. The original blog post read like it, and so does this.

It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.

Waste… I can’t stop thinking about the waste of human talent and potential. The waste of resources to run AI data centers. The waste of the now old school CS ethos. Yea, wasteland checks out.

The future is wastemaxxing

Considering how disdainful our descendants may once look upon this time, we may as well hope it won't be remembered.

Or worse, public masterbation.

But using the milking machines from A Boy and His Dog.