@deanwball@ficus I remember having a giant text file of usernames/passwords and a little program that you could direct at a website, have it try every combination, and often times you'd get one that works.
@davidfrum A French *candidate* for president accuses..
*The* American president prosecutes..
But in Trump-world, it's the former we're supposed to focus on, not the latter.
@ATabarrok@deanwball Another explanation to the Fermi paradox is that we don't have the technology to detect other techno-life in the galaxy.
But it also presumes that they wouldn't be rearranging stars or gobbling up every last photon of starlight for their energy budgets.
@AuthorRoyA@RichardHanania@Noahpinion Can we think through how this would go?
Step 1: You're terminally ill and in pain.
Step 2: <patient is coerced into killing themselves> <-- fill in the following steps for us pleas, because I don't think what you're saying actually is feasible, but maybe you can lay it out.
@DarthPutinKGB Every time I see video of him I'm reminded of what happened to him when he tried to attack Putin, and it makes me so sad that they can't both be dead.
@BetterCallMedhi One of the reasons that physical computation is so valuable is because of the software.
*Also hardware design is a very abstract, symbol-y, digital practice as well.
**(It's not like we necessarily have to choose between the two)
@Aviation_Intel Things will only get truly weird when AI can pilot a robot and perform human-level tasks.
Imagine the labor that goes into building an assembly line, like at Tesla. Now imagine robots can build that assembly line.
Now imagine that assembly line is building more robots.