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It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture ...

... time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

I highlighted the parts you missed. You might want to clean your screen so you can see all the words before responding.

Now compare Lemmy, a phone, or the Internet to "a machine in the likeness of a human mind".

Dune is full of machines. It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they're trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture, so ... time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

This is the danger of a "quick look". It makes you look ridiculous when you talk about it later.

Have you heard of the Butlerian Jihad?

My vision isn't quite as extreme.

Quite.

Do you think we should still harvest fields by hands instead of using tractors?

That is absolutely not the issue and you know it. How do I know you know it? Because you're not a moron, which leaves only "disingenuous".

Your "harvest field by hands" thing isn't even remotely close to the issue. AI isn't a tractor making tilling, seeding, harvesting, etc. etc. etc. easier. AI is stealing, say, the wheat from other people's farms and putting it into your silo and making bread with it.

The important bit is that he wrote the piece.

If it was written by AI by definition he didn't write it.

Yes. Open source. So you give a few hundred lines of material so that people can steal millions to billions of lines of it.

A perfect exchange that is.

I've been tempted to go there a few times, but then I realized the only question I'd have is "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL Y'ALL!?" and decided that would be unproductive.

I think people just hate ai.

And yet you don't take the further step of asking why people "just hate ai".

Building a project around the mass theft of culture is a problem to me. Hence the downvote.

This right here is most especially tedious to me: all the "politics" discussion really meaning "American political obsessions". There's only 350 million or so Americans and yet they act as if their politics are all that matters to the remaining 7.7 billion or so of us.

Interesting how trapped pedals got fixed over the air. That's some very advanced robotics if the truck can reach into itself and physically reattach and better-fasten accelerator pedals!

Or, you know, you're reciting Apartheid Manchild's marketing without even pausing to think.

Other way around. President Musk and First Lady Trump.

Trump just has the main mansion as part of the separation agreement.

I could do without the headline part as long as the thing being reported happened.

So basically just an asshole who is undermining people with genuine issues so that he has an excuse to be an asshole.

Lovely.

He just gets better and better.

Someone is furiously servicing the Apartheid Manchild in hopes that some cash dribbles out.

Nah. It's propping up the system. That protects the riches.

Batman is a rich dude who loses his parents to crime. Instead of using his vast wealth to address the root causes of crime, he goes out at night in fancy dress and beats up poor folk.

Batman is the most reactionary of superheroes, arguably worse than Punisher, and that's even before Mark Miller got his hands on him.

I posted a long rant about this on Mastodon. I put timeouts on my posts, though, so you'll have to take the short form.

If someone came up to you and gave you a million dollars that you have to spend on yourself in a single day, almost anybody could quite easily do it. Most people (perhaps all people?) have a little list in the back of their mind of what they'd like to buy as a dream that's out of reach. For instance I'd buy a nice plot of land in B.C. and build a house on it. Or I'd get a large apartment in Wuhan and fill one room with bookshelves positively dripping with books.

Now in this thought exercise this person comes back and gives you a million dollars the next day. And the next. And the next. And the next. Each day you have to spend a million dollars on yourself. Not donate to charity, not buy things for your friends. You have to spend the whole million on yourself.

How long would it take you to run out of things you really need or want? Would you last a week? A month? Well to reach a billion dollars you'd have to do this EVERY DAY FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS. Day after day you'd be spending money on more and more bizarre things. A car? Hell, no! You've got ten of them about now. A home? God, another one!? That would be number seven. You'd have every valuable collectible you'd ever desired, and likely multiple copies of each. This spending a million dollars a day for that long would, if you're sane, drive you literally crazy. There's a very real chance you'd have a nervous breakdown.

A billionaire is the person for whom this isn't enough.

Has he been diagnosed as such, or is he just another Internet-Diagnosed Autist?