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    People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I’ve had to endure in a while

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      It’s also useless. Like even for coding I have to check all the code manually for basic mistakes like solving a 2x2 system. Is not even good for grammar/spelling correction. The dam thing changes whole phrases to something with similar but different meaning.

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        I find it mostly good enough for canned response and template type of tasks but not much more than that

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        Ehhh maybe a year or two ago. Modern systems are far more capable than you’re giving them credit for.

        I’m not insinuating that they are perfect or even human level, because they’re not, but both of those complaints are things that AI can usually handle summarily.

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    It is true that the Earth is round, much like it’s true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.

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    Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.

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      Culturally we are still living in the 80s, just a dragged out fun mirror version of it because everyone at the top of the pyramid refuses to believe there could be anything better than their idea of life and the malls are online.

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        If corporate social media can be used to fuck up the world so horribly, then imagine what we can build now that we have p2p social media. Everybody is mad and should be mad. But we’re easy to manipulate. We need to adapt how humans obtain and process information, and numerous p2p apps have demonstrated limits to corporate power.

        New ways to communicate and coordinate are a really big deal. We’re a tremendously productive species whose time is mostly being wasted. With what might seem like minor tweaks to our society, we can build this picture.

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          I’m in complete agreement. The Internet should have been amazing for democracy. Then they went and privatised it, to control the online landscape and push propaganda.

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        Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.

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          Just in case you didn’t know:

          article: https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+Myth

          relevant bit:

          “RAH and LRH had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles.”

          The theme of money and religion was apparently a very popular one for Hubbard as he seems to have mentioned it at several other informal discussions around the same time. In a 1978 interview Harlan Ellison commented “Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes!..We were sitting around one night… who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said “This bullshit’s got to stop!” He says, “I gotta get money.” He says, “I want to get rich”.”

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    We might be on track for that future though. The picture features a floor of ocean on which there seem to be artificial islands connected by tubes of glass and steel. So we see a future with heavy flooding and people needing to be protected from extreme weather events 24/7