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My first reaction to hearing about Meta Muse was "abso-fucking-lutely not," and the horror stories come as no surprise. But the manufactured complexity of digital tech and the heroism of technologists led us here. Most people don't know how their computers work.

Grave Stalker

@suddenlygreg.com

And that's because we have discouraged them and hidden the knowledge. Now they're letting the computer act on their behalf without understanding that the computer is just... guessing. It is incapable of "knowing" anything. It's just doing math. You, a human, cannot be replicated with just math.

5/10/26, 5:42 pm0 reposts1 like

Grave Stalker

@suddenlygreg.com

I don't know how the not-math parts of us work, and neither does anyone else. Where does intuition come from? We don't know. What is a gut feeling? Don't know! If we don't know how we make decisions, how on earth can we expect machines to do it? Computers can only do what we tell them to do.

Grave Stalker

@suddenlygreg.com

Thus, bluntly, computers cannot do things we don't understand because we can't tell them how.