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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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Yeah according to ChatGPT that is eleven times the normal amount of tits.
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You don't need AI for that, you got Total Recall.
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Investor people need to lose more money faster; sorry about the economy but this needs to crash and leave a giant crater (people still won’t learn ofc, but it will be funny to watch it burn) 🔥
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They must surely be lining up the next grift already though.
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Ugh, we can only hope maybe one day the crash will be so bad, and the fall so deep it kills the entire tech industry. 😔🤞💫
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Yup. I generally buy used and then use it for 5-10 years, so I'm good if nothing new gets produced for a while.
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I've had day jobs on IT for more than 2 decades but tbh I'm more than ready to let it go. It's an industry that largely runs on BS fuel and AI grifters are just the latest of such in the stage.
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A lot of the "AI" stuff they're putting out is just rebranded things that already exist. Such as a new fitness watch that "uses AI" to track your steps. Like ???
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someone's gotta go in and dump, idk, vinegar on their servers
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Cutting the AC in serv rooms and disable the heat alerts so they fucking fry itself while generating garbage pics
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I like your spirit, but that could have more collateral damage for the surrounding area
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Nah, fucking up the external AC is a nice low risk way to intervene. Practice good tradecraft!
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Generally the a/c vents to outside in a semi-secure compound, easier to access than the server room buildings. And AC futzing is closer to letting tyres down, more denial of service (ha) less destruction of kit.
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May be better than the impact of this going wild for too long
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Maybe It's hard to tell, 'cause we live in a reactive system
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So could we sneak in and turn them off safely?
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But if they don’t do it, the future AI will murder them for failing to create the future AI.
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Tbh I don’t think irl Skynet would hold grudges I think our extermination would be pretty impersonal if that’s the direction it chooses to go
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There’s a really stupid thought experiment where an AI eternally tortures the people who didn’t support building the AI, and a lot of tech bros are into the idea.
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You're giving it too much credit, it doesn't torture you, it tortures an ai duplicate of you. How can you tell you aren't also simula- damn there's no good jerk off motion emoji
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wHaT iF cHiNa gEtS tHE mURdeR AI FiRSt…
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Oh god they might snatch up all the real estate in the torment nexus
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gotta make sure I'm the basilisk's court jester
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Remember it's not about the murder ai..it's about the race for short term profits at the expense of everything that makes the world worth living in along the way
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It's not about the murder ai it's about the friends we made along the way
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Maybe the real horrific Murder AI experience was the friends with 16 fingers we generated along the way
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Yeah... companies really do seem to love making pigheaded decisions that ruin their reputation with their customers as long as it makes them money.
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It's crazy to me that all these art companies, whose own primary customers are artists who make real art are all diving into ai slop, to alienate the people they depend on most. Just incredible decision making
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God the amount of times Ive seen techbros say this stupid shit and also that Europe is regulating too hard and strangling their innovation. “Falling behind!” Falling behind, from fucking AUTOCOMPLETE. They are goddamn ridiculous and unserious people.
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“Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!” There was literally a movie about this in the fucking sixties.
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Ah good old Roko’s Basilisk and it’s torture nexus
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Don’t create the Torment Nexus.
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But if I don’t create the torment nexus I’ll be put in it for forever :(
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nobody ever thinks to create two so you can put each in the other. problem solved
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If you do not help build this basilisk it will put you in the bad false universe with the other basilisk
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No, that would be silly to believe. It will torture AI clones of them that don't know they're AI clones, so because they might be such a clone themselves they should hasten the future AI to protect the identity clone collective from punishment. Which is obviously much more logical and likely.
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Wasn’t that a Black Mirror episode?
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Probably. I mean I just described the basilisk as I remember reading it, because I think a lot of the summaries make it sound somehow more reasonable that it is.
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The plot of the Terminator sequels is more reasonable than it is.
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It all feels like someone got high and thought "I bet I can reinvent Pascal's Wager but without God" and then someone else bought into it. If you told me it was invented on a bet at a sci-fi con I'd say "Two nickels? Sure."
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as long as the money isn't going to workers, the rich love it
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