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A thread for excerpts from “Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West” by John Ralston Saul (1992)
If you want a picture of the future, imagine an AI chatbot doom-looping on a human face— forever.
>i got banned from OpenAI for "Cyber Abuse"
>no idea what I did
>paste the ban notice into Codex
>ask it to figure out what triggered the ban
>Codex found that I asked it for an API key to my own server
>Codex writes appeal
>Codex submits appeal
>a few minutes later appeal auto-approved by some AI at OpenAI
banned by AI, convicted by AI, defended by AI, and pardoned by AI in about 10 minutes
"I had not realized that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum, inventor of the first chatbot ELIZA
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct science fiction author.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight bbc.in/43SLXkE
In the good ol’ days of the 1800s dudes were inventing whole fake ass countries and getting hundreds of marks to pay to be shipped to their deaths on promises of land, riches and noble titles.
Now we have dorks with links to pictures of monkeys. history.com/news/the-con-man…
Narrator: It wasn’t.
Paints face and hair like the Joker, goes to South Beach, climbs up on a car with an American flag, screams “Fucking COVID is over baby!” and makes it rain. #BecauseMiami
Caustic Pop retweeted
the private equity industry continues to find innovative dividend recap structures
A Texas man drove a car loaned to him by a dealership to a bank, robbed the bank, and then brought the money back to the dealership to buy a BMW
dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/03/10/…
Inversion has utterly horrifying implications for the human digestive system and I don’t feel Christopher Nolan adequately addressed this with dry meandering expository dialogue
Some excerpts from Slavoj Zizek’s 1989 book “The Sublime Object of Ideology” talking about the psychosocial symbolic power of the sinking of the Titanic and an amazing anecdote of it being almost perfectly foretold
