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6·17 days agoWell, for one thing, among the general public, AI is less popular than ICE.
And the economics of AI don’t add up, so it can’t last forever. And everything that can’t last forever eventually stops.
I’m not gonna pretend everything is guaranteed to be fine, but I feel like we genuinely have a lot on our side.
Emerson Green convinced me that p-zombies are plausible. So there’s no way to know if a teleporter would end your consciousness.
That efficiency is an absolute good.
“Where” is a question that applies to the physical world. The dream people are constituted of something more fundamental than matter.
Some people genuinely have a problem with it.
But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.
So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.
A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?
I avoid the potential presence of ads.
I recall seeing some research that suggested “ignoring” ads makes you more susceptible to their content. I couldn’t find it after a couple searches though.
No, it was giant radioactive ants.
But now I am actually not sure if what I saw was Them! or Matinee (which features a film that very well may be based on Them!)
Saw “Them!” when I was like 6. That was pretty bad.
And then Starship Troopers when I was like 10. That one really got me.
Huh. Never thought about how they’re both bug movies.
One box
I feel ya. But the pendulum will probably swing back the other way soon and we’ll have a ton of companies hiring to undo/replace slop code. That’s how it has been for previous coding fads, anyway.
Midwest $3.59/gal today
Maybe through CXL you’ll be able to “download more RAM” (renting it, really)
Money is fine. Financialization is not.
The references in that video contradict its own content.
There is no evidence, historical or contemporary, of a society in which barter is the main mode of exchange;[27][26] instead, non-monetary societies operated largely along the principles of gift economy and debt.[25][24] When barter did in fact occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or potential enemies.[29]
The documentary “Finding The Money” has a takedown of this exact myth (Link to timestamp)
Not exactly. If you’re interested in the history of money and how it works, you should check out Finding The Money
Slavery
We might want two separate terms: one for the personal ways that AI slop infects and manipulates your mind, and another for the way it makes the wider cultural landscape difficult to navigate by adding noise and intercepting your attempts to find the original sources of concepts or artifacts which might bring you into a community (and the fact that these communities are now all playing defense because of the everlasting scraping DDoS).
I’m concerned about the former because I think it might make doing anything at all much more difficult.
But I’m concerned about the latter because we… don’t really know how much pollution culture can withstand before collapsing. We may already be in the early stages of something like Kessler Syndrome but for communications.