demestive rosite

demonstures of the reptagin

[demestive rosite @demestive]

this name was whispered to me in a summer dream

[nk @subcountability]

@Quasilocal I don't know if you know that one, but he had a letter exchange in 2000, out of prison, where he advises against going into math because that job would be taken by AI.

[max tempers @maxtempers]

Introduce the Renters' Rights Act --> Make it more difficult & costly to let out property --> Owners choose to leave homes empty instead --> Legislate to make it easier to forcibly take control of private property because of aforesaid vacancies. Evil. https://t.co/3L389d2e1A

[demestive rosite @demestive]

@clay_shentrup @FuturistPartyGB this is slop, fuck off

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

>am a 19th century nationalist which means i am as woke as you can get by 19th century standards
>work a proto-woke job at the dissolving regional identities and languages factory
>get to the factory - busy day at work today precusortowoke-ishly amalgamating upper slobovia, east ruritania, the duchy of tosserland and lower downlowniggagovia
>decide to proto-gayracecommunistly fold in the schmoofenland, westhasfallen, jew province and upper lower bogdanoffia into my progressive new nation state too
>laughly to myself springtimeofnationsera-libtardishly as i erase the identities of the minor regional tagliatelleians, gloovakian, retard-provençalies and wasiagrad tartar ethnic groups in the process

[demestive rosite @demestive]

@FuturistPartyGB there's a lot of detail in here to get right and if you take your eye off the ball for even a millisecond, that's an opportunity for whitehall wreckers to slip something in

[demestive rosite @demestive]

@FuturistPartyGB I worry that any hard break would empower some insane constitutional miscreants who would use the opportunity to year-zero some completely heinous leftist shit.
also if there is to be electoral reform it should be Approval Voting only.

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

We’re in the “phone phreaking” era right now for AI agents. AI agents are selling you on convenience; how they will actually work at scale is very different: a cautionary tale

Back in the 60s and 70s, some kids figured out you could use toy whistles and the like to control AT&T’s phone network. AT&T actually published the relevant frequencies in open literature; you could just look them up. AT&T did this for the benefit of telephone engineers; it never considered that the system could be hacked.

The system worked so long as no one took advantage of it. It was convenient. But once knowledge spread of *how* it worked, and how easy it was to reverse engineer, it broke down. AT&T shifted over to a different system, and phreaking came to an end

AI agents are doing the exact same thing. They’re taking advantage of a system that works on human trust, and also on the friction - the time cost - that having to call or chat to a customer service agent imposes. Everyone has made the calculation about whether or not it was “worth it” to make a complaint or request or to raise an issue. Often, it isn’t. So you just don’t say anything.

AI agents reduce the cost of complaints/requests to ~ zero. Anything free is consumed at much higher rates, so we should expect the total volume of this category to explode.

Further, today companies and their employees typically assume that the complaints or requests they receive have an actual person behind them. Once AI agents become a mainstream thing, this will no longer be true. Now the assumption will be reversed: that any given customer interaction is actually coming from a bot.

Just as early car ownership was liberating, but mass ownership represents a constraint on your freedom, the same will be true with AI agents.

People using these agents today are getting good responses from companies because they are benefiting from the (now unwarranted) assumption that these requests are coming from a person. They’ll
no longer think this in the near future. The ways they train their customer service people to deal with customer requests will change, too. You don’t have to be nice to an agent. And they won’t be. The return to AI agents will decline as companies build entirely new workflows to deal with the huge volume of automated requests they’ll be getting from bots in the near future

The system today works on trust: that there’s a real person behind each customer interaction, and that if somebody has reached out to you, they’re concerned or mad or scared or whatever enough to do so. The contact is a signal that some minimal threshold of importance has been met. The business model is built on this belief about customer behavior.

But that trust is broken by ubiquitous AI agents. None of the current assumptions will hold true in the future. Once the customer population is mostly bots, the nature of customer service (at least online) is fundamentally changed

Agents will make the online environment even worse. I’m very bearish on the category. All the tech guys seem excited by this new frictionless world of automated convenience where the agents are getting you automatic refunds and canceling your old subscriptions and getting you that free upgrade on your next flight

Please.

You’ve got to think non-linearly. All these new frictions will need to be introduced to keep the system working smoothly. Agents rely on deception; that there’s a person behind them. But that’s not a safe assumption anywhere. So the system will adjust, just as it did with the phreakers: from default open and trusting, to adversarial: prove you’re human

[Stokeman🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @anglopjdst]

"...and for tea, get one of those Chupa Chups lollipops for 28p, it doesn't have to be complex."

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

The takes on Terry Tao being unemployed seem to me to be an expression of mediocrity and resentment, from people who have never tasted dedication to something higher than themselves. The guy is not going to lose his job. He is forever in the Hall of Fame. If he was purely selfish, he'd be grinning that he got on the train right before it crumbled.

Maybe, just maybe, he's sad to see something he cared about potentially crumble, instead of being self- interestedly afraid "for his job".

[demestive rosite @demestive]

@zetalyrae your words are too POWERFUL

[demestive rosite @demestive]

What if my family lives far away, and I find it difficult to make friends, and AI can do all the things I might have done in seclusion to fill my days?

Am I expected to just shoot myself?

[demestive rosite @demestive]

When I was depressed, the advice that worked was to get good at something, achieve mastery over some skill. It didn't help directly, but it did keep my mind occupied, away from dark feelings, and eventually they faded.

The skills were math and coding. That will never work again.

[demestive rosite @demestive]

In an AI future, if self-worth won't come from work anymore, then what? Friends, family, church, community, touching grass. Great, I agree!
But Silicon Valley is hard at work shredding society into tiny little hateful atomized pieces too. So what's left?

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

discovered an artist, Saskia Knowles, who curates poetic Wikipedia images. i love this as a genre

[ハトノ @ytkmrs]

🌸

[demestive rosite @demestive]

why do they always use the exclamation mark Like That

[Marley Morris @MarleyAMorris]

@ShipleyWrites I think you are remarkably down on the prospects of integration! The evidence suggests the UK has on the whole had a pretty successful story of integration. And though challenges exist, I certainly don't think restricting access to citizenship would help:

https://t.co/LgbpOZ7jGN

[demestive rosite @demestive]

@FuturistPartyGB "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."