I predict that 2026 will be the “year of the pervert.” Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. Every twitter post will have 100 replies to it containing AI nudity. You know how they say every technology, from photography to the VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray to the internet is propelled forward by pornography first? Apply that truism to LLMs. Apply it to humanoid robotics. Apply it to AI slop videos.
Marx once said that as the contradictions of capitalism intensify, “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned,” and after capitalism has commodified relationships with dating apps, now they will commodify every aspect of human interactions. Shame will die. The Overton window will shift in the direction of commodifying people’s bodies for sexual gratification being an “inevitable” outcome of the free market.
A part of it as well is this kind of “hedonist” movement is also probably the only answer these people have to capitalist realism. When you cannot imagine the system ever changing, or things ever improving, what else is there to do besides self-indulgence?
That’s exactly the trap that got me deep into alcoholism for most of myof my 20s. Funny enough, getting sober quickly reminded me why I had been a radical before. Only now, I had the development level to dive deep into theory and came out a commie instead of a teenage anarchist.
I predict that 2026 will be the “year of the pervert.” Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. Every twitter post will have 100 replies to it containing AI nudity. You know how they say every technology, from photography to the VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray to the internet is propelled forward by pornography first? Apply that truism to LLMs. Apply it to humanoid robotics. Apply it to AI slop videos.
Marx once said that as the contradictions of capitalism intensify, “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned,” and after capitalism has commodified relationships with dating apps, now they will commodify every aspect of human interactions. Shame will die. The Overton window will shift in the direction of commodifying people’s bodies for sexual gratification being an “inevitable” outcome of the free market.
A part of it as well is this kind of “hedonist” movement is also probably the only answer these people have to capitalist realism. When you cannot imagine the system ever changing, or things ever improving, what else is there to do besides self-indulgence?
That’s exactly the trap that got me deep into alcoholism for most of myof my 20s. Funny enough, getting sober quickly reminded me why I had been a radical before. Only now, I had the development level to dive deep into theory and came out a commie instead of a teenage anarchist.