series of increasingly large dominoes where the smallest is "NVIDIA releases CUDA" and the largest is "the entire global economy has become dependent on running a useless computer program that tricks stupid people into believing it can do anything worthwhile"

Yeah, I got started in silicon thinking cheaper, faster, more power efficient chips would be a net benefit to the world... Then we became a social media surveillance state and AI dogshit is just the icing on the cake.

Now I drink to forget we're boiling the oceans to ruin society. One day this capitalist hellscape will end.

There's still a few of us out here using ROPs and texture units