so much here, but i am convinced most of the grifters in the christian right are actually nihilistic atheists -- but of a sociopathic variety -- that realize god doesn't exist, but that there are a bunch of people that believe he does, and they have money they want to send them
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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net
The idea that teaching too many words to the word-guessing program risks creating a "superintelligence" that awakens and converts all into paperclips is absurd, a silly idea akin to the notion that if we breed horses to run ever faster, one of our mares will foal a locomotive. 18/
this is a lot like what i'm working adjacent to currently (until they decide they don't need me)
Even better is when the "human in the loop" can be outsourced to a company overseas, which allows bosses to simply set-and-forget a set of requirements for how the human part of the AI's labor is to be done without ever having to meet or even think about those workers' conditions. 8/
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"You have crudely reduced me to 'the man who will eat me,' which is unfair. When I see you, I see Frank from accounting, my best friend in the firm, a proud single father of two beautiful girls, and yes, someone who could potentially be made into soup."