apoph3nia

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by apoph3nia 7y ago
INSERT Blake screaming at Alan and MacLeod in Highlander II: The Quickening "Please don't bother, Alan. Every time you turn that thing on it just gets printed out in my office. And yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes' yes, th
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
> The encryption . . . debate is already over – Facebook ended it earlier this year. [...] After all, if either user’s device is compromised, unbreakable encryption is of little relevance. [...] The problem is that if Facebook’s model s
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
I was replying to @OedipusRex. The "demanding a key to every lock" bit.
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
It's funny how the tl;dr of these articles usually just amounts to "Oh, so they're just lazy and overbearing thieves."
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
"Parasitical Autosync Functionality in AI as Agressive Autoimmune Disease: An Epidemiological View"
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
> In low-trust societies, you never know. You expect to be cheated, often without recourse. You expect things not to be what they seem and for promises to be broken, and you don’t expect a reasonable and transparent process for recourse.
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
"Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
Don't forget: Epistemologically speaking, it may be the 'clinical setting' itself that is disrupting or obscuring the effect.
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
> Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in several key areas that are essential to journalism, including complex communication, expert thinking, adaptability and creativity. Bizarre sentence. The phrase 'non-Hollywood AI
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
Memories of http://ziron.extinct.ly
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
Reminds me of that octo-human hybrid imprisoned in a robot that looks like a giant walking smartphone from "Twenty-First Century in Twenty-One Words or Less": https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hqhjRSSvrKk/WgulKWrSrpI
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
> None of the above are (moral) value judgements, but they’re really easy to get accustomed to Playing economic limbo with constantly updating 'how low can you go?' data as the stick may be possible to get accustomed to, but is
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
The discussion is probably more relevant now than it was in 2008 re: expansion in the ridiculous 'gig economy' sphere since then.
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
> If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first. ...& if you don't want the stateful gorilla?
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
It's a fun sight when all of the subcontractor of subcontractor of subcontractor recursion chains form a beanstalk into the heavens /peanutgallery
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
What would the growing tech dystopia be without recourse to some sort of 'zombie pig' threshold at the hardware level?
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
Failure in loving, failure in living from everyone's favourite pre-quantum either/or philosopher of the 0/1 binary. Let's give it up for Søren Kierkegaard!
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by apoph3nia 7y ago
The article could have been written ~5 years ago with maybe a few interchangeable variables and would have expressed the same feeling of being frozen in an unchanging dystopian time loop.
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by apoph3nia 8y ago
Kierkegaard is pretty hilarious too tbqh
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by apoph3nia 8y ago
Comedy option: every detected object is labeled with the word "noumena"