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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
https://archive.is/l5WfN
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
Combined with AI, drones are becoming the fourth in a list after: nuclear, biological, chemical. What they all have in common is a mutual/ symmetrical WMD insidiousness
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Join the Parasite Rebellion on T-day(usop.substack.com)
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
Am I missing something? Science is not a random act of testing hypotheses. The scientific method is used to test educated guesses, or advances or existing findings.
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
ha-ha, I just began serializing a novel where... Two days after a CDC scientist is fired, she uploaded a research paper linking MAGA behavior to a mind-altering parasite. She never expects people to believe it. But they do—and that's n
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Research Report Links the MAGA Movement to a Mind-Altering Parasite (Satire)(usop.substack.com)
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Could a Brain Parasite Explain the MAGA Movement? (Satire)(usop.substack.com)
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
Because good is the enemy of greed in monopoly capitalism. Enshitification is about the loss of consumer experience as a factor in use. It's upside down economics
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
I'm not sure the numbers support the dire title. A five percent decline ?
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
Quote: "and though it takes roughly 100 pounds of it to build an atomic bomb...” Are they stupid at PM or just selling misinformation?
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
Yes, but let's not forget that even in science we are often blind to the truth already in front of us. The papers I'm most amazed by are known but unappreciated Against Method" by Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, TSSR
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
TC is a runaway apple robot programmed to make money at any "expense." With his bankrolling of China's electronics infrastructure, he epitomizes the worst of what capitalism can do. Here's just another sick example. I ju
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by richardatlarge 11mo ago
I applied this to the rise of Trump, asking an AI to draw the parallels. Here's what I got The ant study becomes an almost eerie biological mirror of Trump’s rise and the sociopolitical conditions that enabled it. The parasitic queen’s
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
Money can't buy happiness. This will be history's most expensive case study.
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
Somebody please get Wittgenstein on the phone
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
No way does the evolutionary nature of the human brain suggest it's optimally designed for reasoning or thinking, so it's not a great model of how AGI might be engineered. A model. Not the model. We don't think clearly about
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
So many paywalls. Imagine a mirror version that has archived addresses
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
a good interview here: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
https://archive.is/Pn0tm
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The Age of Enshittification(newyorker.com)
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
Absolutely not the case, imagine the implications if so
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Nothing's 'first step' to an 'AI OS' is not first, or an OS, but is fascinating(theverge.com)
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Nothing's 'first step' to an 'AI OS' is not first, or an OS, but is fascinating(theverge.com)
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
Thanks - SS has basically zero support Yes, it's a nightmare. Usually I have all kinds of duplication, but this time I got busy and distracted. Appreciate it
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Ask HN: Substack version history deleted a week of my work
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
I updated on an iphone 13 pro and had to go back to my old iphone with an older OS. I write on my phone (substack), and it cannot be done with this OS. Together the two have become inoperable. And to think I updated because of how bad the e
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
w post: https://archive.ph/uI5Lp
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
Maybe the first sign of AI running full amok will be Meta canceling all its accounts in a runaway state of algorithm-induced internal paranoia
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ASK: Could AI Replace the Slush Pile Intern?
2 points by richardatlarge 1y ago|7 comments
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by richardatlarge 1y ago
My techno-thriller, Reactor, has an even smaller one in the bed of a jeep, deployed in the Middle East out of a Short SC7 Skyvan, the Flying Shoebox. Great fun!

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