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Nothing to see here

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@WeAreFocusrite Every one of the dozens of vintage instruments and processors that works without ever needing an internet connection.

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@sit_walk Not yet. How would you define an acceptable sample of such a thing? I think it has to be bad enough to be intolerable; anything less is unacceptably awful. Hey -- maybe it's a new type of Turing test!

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This morning's spam from packback is entirely unwelcome, though it is an opportunity to remind you that AI is shit.

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TIL that SPACE_X = Shit Practically Always Combusts EXplosively.

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@CarissaVeliz From an economic point of view, AI externalizes both the cost of information acquisition (by scraping IP from a co-opted web), and the cost of validation (because it cannot distinguish fact from fiction from hallucination).

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@singtoconley Have used both; found Motion to be less taxing on the CPU, less disk bloat, and had a more intuitive UI. YMMV.

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@CarissaVeliz Also notable is that the metaverse is capriciously controlled and surreptitiously surveilled in ways that we would find entirely unacceptable in the natural world.

It is a gilded cage for the mind.

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@LawGarson Well, they ARE blessed, aren't they?

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@pickover But... does the joke still work if it the car has an automatic transmission?

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Current meme nauseatingly overposted in a desperate attempt to generate engagement.

I'll start:

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@sit_walk You obviously look like the Thornley who wrote, "EXAFS structures of technetium in BOWLS prepared under different redox conditions."

Seems some people just can't friggin' think, you know?

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@WalrusAudio Tuskers.

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It's safe to assume that, when a billionaire spouts in public, it's strictly for his own amusement. Such excretions carry no useful information other than an insight into an unwell mind.

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@mathladyhazel Love it. But with respect, shouldn't that be "down" instead of "up""?

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@SteveMcEllis Important, this. You should always be cognizant of your position relative to the south end of a cow.

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Simple expedient to temper the rise of an oligarchy: for every $10m of net worth, you must hire one well-paid minder whose job it is to monitor your actions and, when you attempt to communicate with the public, yell, "Shut the f*ck up!"

#oligarchy #EatTheRich

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Just got email spam from an otherwise lovely restaurant because they used @Square as their payment system. Result: never ordering from them again. Blocking inbound & outbound from https://t.co/Va8p6cwcxd . Use them? Lose me.

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AI massively amplifies Dunning-Kruger, and the effect is inversely proportial.

The dumber you are, the smarter you think AI makes you.

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@paulapoundstone Possible reasons:
1. It moves too quickly for them to get a fix on it.
2. They know where it's been.
3. They know that if they do, you'll use it as material for the rest of their lives.

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@zoeblade I thought they were an autonomous collective, taking turns to act as a sort of executive officer for a week.