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One time net artist.
Long time software engineer.
Part time Luddite.
Overtime philosopher.
Out of time musician.

(atomless; inchoate; insufficiently coherent to constitute matter)

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atomless , to random
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Love this from @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/03/aoi-aoi-oh/#concentrated-gains-vast-diffused-losses

atomless OP ,
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@pluralistic The sad thing being, of course, that society is far more interested in finding and punishing a thousand one dollar cheaters (and the vast cost of that) than it is in prosecuting the single thousand dollar (corp) cheater.

pluralistic , to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How to screw up a whistleblower law; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

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atomless ,
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This is great from @pluralistic on whistleblower law - https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

It reminded me of this other excellent piece that explains that sadly we always seem, psychologically at least, to shoot the messenger : https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

ElleGray , to random

this is mars’s moon phobos eclipsing the sun. this is what passes for a total solar eclipse there. second-rate planet. just sad

atomless ,
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@ElleGray it even resembles an eyeball looking down in a state of quivering melancholy.

atomless , to random
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As ever,
@pluralistic puts it best.🔥🔥🔥
"As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112202099696197926

atomless OP ,
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@pluralistic the “reverse centaur” really is a perfect term for prediction machines doing the fun bit leaving humans doing the drudgery.

genmon , to random
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Again with extrapolating into the future of AI software...

New blog post: Who will be the new babysitters for my new needy AI apps?

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/03/29/engagement

Blog post extract as a screenshot: - Al agents are enormously powerful, either as separate assistants or a self- driving (copilot) mode in the apps | already use - Al interactions are more naturalistic... - ...and inevitably open the door to pseudo-social relationships. - Social relationships are sticky like never before, and in the attention economy, firms will find building these features impossible to resist. Look out for your Excel copilot giving you sadface if you forget to open it for a day.
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    • atomless ,
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    @genmon @pluralistic
    has a an excellent and relevant post here: https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

    atomless , to random
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    OpenAI's Sora is a next-pixel-predictor. It being classed as a world simulator, reminds me of @pluralistic's comparison of the belief that a next-word-predictor would result in a conscious being, to a belief that breeding faster horses would magically result in a steam locomotive.

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