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by balamatom 6mo ago
So that it stops existing. It has valuable content for you occasionally. Your behavioral profile is valuable content for it constantly. Unfair trade.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
I've been reading it for a couple years already, where have yall been looking? At marketing materials? See e.g. https://aphyr.com/tags/the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-gu... (That whole series is also available
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>you're being unserious PSA: the answer to "you're being unserious" starts with "are you fucking kidding me?"
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Is building a technofeudal entity and bootstrapping pseudo-AGI art?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
> half the world couldn't tell you what a terminal is and they're focused on other things in life instead of learning how computers work. Thankfully, the converse: the computers these days are focused on nothing else but lear
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Well, we're talking about network services. Which run on a host machine. Not entirely unlike how viruses (or memes) execute on a host organism ;-)
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Why is everyone so damn obsessed with the singularity? Because they are captives (to a system of incentives that is already "superintelligent" in comparison to any individual) who are hoping for salvation (something to make th
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by balamatom 6mo ago
The ones who pirate the sports broadcasts are in the right. Spectator sports are literally brainwashing: they hook into vestigial tribal instincts, reinforce them, and channel them for political goals - such as norm-setting, or extrajudicia
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by balamatom 6mo ago
All I hear is "waaah, waaah". What is it, baby, not spanked enough?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Oh cool, soon people will stop being incapable of working with me.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Oh so you want to beat people, but you don't want people to beat you? Such a brilliant insight!
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Correct. Thank you for not serving. <3
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>And then, and I’m sorry to be so blunt, then it’s die or kill. The people ready to die or kill for the AI, do you already imagine what they are going to be like ?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Plural you. As in, "all of you". Including its users.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>You asked the wrong question. Oh, so there are "wrong questions" now? Yeah, I guess I'll have to get better at asking those real quick.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>I think we need to start using the word evil for this. Because it is. It is gross irresponsibility. Gross abuse of a power situation, of a strong dependency, that the company quite knowingly creates. Oh wow, good morning. The parties wh
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>the school My condolences to any children who have to interact with you. >You now owe me 20,000,000,000,000,000,000EUR, but since I'm not an actual cyberstalker, I won't be chasing you down to collect. So relax. Such a usel
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Its easier to use the thing you already have than it is to make something new. Is that really difficult to understand? I asked which is easier to make . This is, evidently, an extremely difficult question to understand. >Whaaaa I
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by balamatom 6mo ago
In the time it took you to selectively bring various outside context "for perspective" (instead of answering the question as asked) you could've registered a brand new account with username, password, email confirmation, and
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Sacrifice principles for pragmatism and you lose both.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
It is certainly extremely valuable as an ideological construct, i.e. a fake notion to mislead people into self-defeating behaviors. "Why not use $COP_APP?" "It's not private " "Well it's by a private co
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by balamatom 6mo ago
That's not what I asked.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
That's not what I asked.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
What's easier: to obtain state ID, or to sign up to a website with your preferred username and password?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Grounding identity in a phone number is very reasonable for almost all normal usage In many jurisdictions, telecoms form an abusive oligopoly, and you need to provide a state-issued identity document to get a phone number. That is not a
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Session is shutting down in 90 days(getsession.org)
148 points by balamatom 6mo ago|181 comments
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Nobody that you know of .
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Tell me you follow a value system invented by sociopaths without... actually reflecting on what value system you follow, and whether you chose it intentionally - or just bought into it by following the path of least resistance and are now i
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>I don't think Microsoft cares (about anything besides making mo' money) If Microsoft amounts to a sentient entity (i.e. is able to care about things), we have a bigger problem. If we put the wall of metaphor between us and t
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by balamatom 6mo ago
But it is NOT necessarily a factual statement that one of the main uses of electromagnetic radiation is for humans to send information over long distances; nor that I first learned about tinfoil hats from some random piece of information th

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