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

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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

This emphasis on benefits cheating and indifference to corporate crime really highlights the drag that corruption places on a society's efficiency. Even if you believe that there's a lot of welfare fraud (there isn't!), the dollar in "undeserved" food stamps spent by a cheater costs society…a dollar. Meanwhile the dollar that a corporate criminal makes by skimping on workplace safety costs society thousands of dollars to care for the worker who is then maimed on the job.
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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.

    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

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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.

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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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