Plenty of instances where the government ran roughshod over people’s rights, including, you know, slavery; sometimes even Supreme Court decisions were just completely ignored. COINTELPRO targetted civil rights activitst, even killing a few. Leftists were explicitly denied government positions during the cold war. Etc. etc. etc.

I wish I had this problem. I’m broke enough that I’d get the lowest price and someone to make sure I find everything I need.

while defeat could undermine their prospects of gaining a majority in the chamber for years to come.

Because we’ll be living in an authoritarian regime? Just say what you mean.

Seeker is the P2P music platform you’re looking for.

Deezer was moving that direction when I left it to go back to controlliig my own media.

AI is such a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with capitalism I’m starting to think it was created by a god as humanity’s last chance to get it.

If a cow can eat it, so can we.

If we don’t want to eat it, we’re choosing to feed cows with that land instead of people.

Some things really are a zero sum game.

That most all of those intances are the result of misunderstanding what AI does, and the only outstanding one is misunderstanding what art is.

Most of my hatred is reserved for conscious beings that could do better.

It’s like a bizzare mashup of response to Holocaust denial which somehow entirely neglects the source of the idea.

We need AI to understand it.

How can you extend the pre-sale after launch?

AI Genie: You have three wishes.

Person: I wish for a million dollars!

AI Genie: Granted!

Person: Ok. Where is it?

AI Genie: Oh, sorry, I didn’t grant your wish. Please ask again.

Person: I wish for a million dollars!

AI Genie: Granted!

Person: These look like a few old rubles. They’re worthless!

AI Genie: Yes, you did ask for a million dollars and I gave you worthless rubles. Please wish again and I will try to do better!

Person: I wish for a million US dollars!

AI Genie: Granted!

Person: This is a million-dollar bill signed by George Washington with an image of … Franklin Hubert Lincoln? This isn’t legal tender!

AI Genie: I’m sorry, you are right. I should have understood you wanted to increase your net worth. Please wish again and I’ll get right.

Person: I wish for a million US dollars to be deposited into my checking account!

AI Genie: I’m sorry, you have already used all three of your wishes.

The difference between loving AI and hating AI is undertanding AI. And, really, most people who understand AI don’t hate it, they hate that people don’t understand it.

Listening to Ed Zitron’s show recently and he reports that a certain madness has taken over. Nobody wants to speak ill of AI because it can end or severely limit your career to do so, as you yourself demonstrated.

Yeah, we need to be clear on taxonomy. Just about everything we hate about “AI” is LLM shit, which gives the illusion of intelligence but has absolutely NONE. It’s a parlor trick.

Isn’t at least one of those Doom games about how technology accidentally opens a gateway to hell? Maybe we should be concerned.

Yup. I always keep an eye out for YT and podcast recommends from real people.

Some of the most hilarious kooks are mathematicians.

That collection of paper shopping bags I’ve been building will finally come in handy!

I don´t even understand the end game. There’s no way to monopolize AI.There will always be a competing model that can charge less. The idea that you can just shovel money into it to be the last man standing is, afaict, false.

Meh. It’ll be over as soon as the bubble pops. Then we’ll just have massive unemployment to deal with.