@glyph The only scenario I’ve found interesting is the idea that a sufficiently advanced AI doesn’t need to replace the people, just be so amazingly perceptive that it can convince, blackmail, or threaten anyone it can communicate with into doing anything it wanted.
It’s a great idea… when I read it in 2000AD comics. But only good enough to be my third favourite series after Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, not something that keeps me up at night.
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RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116370872461018611
Other options include almost, but not quite, escaping a sinister cult in a remote Scottish village, and becoming vampire fodder while partaking of the fresh air at Whitby. TBH, after climbing up Whitby steps being murdered by the living dead would feel like a kindness.
Other options include almost, but not quite, escaping a sinister cult in a remote Scottish village, and becoming vampire fodder while partaking of the fresh air at Whitby. TBH, after climbing up Whitby steps being murdered by the living dead would feel like a kindness.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116372673497460064
This piece made me so glad I don’t work at a large company. Yes, we’re doing AI stuff, but no one’s making *me* do it and we’re simply not big enough to have competing teams being incentivised to exclude each other because of AI mandates. Our entire dev “org” is basically a single two pizza team. It might be a one pizza team.
Articles like that one are terrifying. How do people function in environments like that? It’s incredibly anti-human, and I don’t mean in the sense of AI mandates.
This piece made me so glad I don’t work at a large company. Yes, we’re doing AI stuff, but no one’s making *me* do it and we’re simply not big enough to have competing teams being incentivised to exclude each other because of AI mandates. Our entire dev “org” is basically a single two pizza team. It might be a one pizza team.
Articles like that one are terrifying. How do people function in environments like that? It’s incredibly anti-human, and I don’t mean in the sense of AI mandates.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
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It just occurred to me that the US Secretary of Defence/War in real life is basically the same personality as The Deep from The Boys, only without the sea life fetish (as far as we know).
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It's cold and there's wind and rain outside. It feels more like December than April, light levels notwithstanding.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116346067756504687
The irony here is that people mostly buy pickups in the UK as a tax dodge. Modern pickups are as nice inside as normal cars and can carry as many people. So if you’re self employed you can get one and if it meets the requirements it counts as a commercial vehicle and you can pay less tax.
This is why you don’t see as many Ford Ranger Raptors (the high end ‘cool’ one) because the extra ‘Raptor’ bits mean it’s payload capacity is too low to count.
Close that loophole and they’d (mostly) vanish.
The irony here is that people mostly buy pickups in the UK as a tax dodge. Modern pickups are as nice inside as normal cars and can carry as many people. So if you’re self employed you can get one and if it meets the requirements it counts as a commercial vehicle and you can pay less tax.
This is why you don’t see as many Ford Ranger Raptors (the high end ‘cool’ one) because the extra ‘Raptor’ bits mean it’s payload capacity is too low to count.
Close that loophole and they’d (mostly) vanish.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
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Tried to go to bed three times now, but every time this face does something adorable and I’m trapped here. Earlier he must have been cold because he tried to crawl under my blanket. Except I don’t have a blanket and he was trying to stick his face under my t-shirt. He doesn’t really understand ’clothes’.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
mastodon.social
The working week is done and I've an empty tonight, so what should I do?
Go downstairs and watch YouTube on the sofa (aka the 'Pinky and the Brain' option, that is, 'the same thing we do every night')?
Play Baldur's Gate 3?
Keep fiddling with the Ruby port of a Rust TUI library that looks kinda cool?
Have a nap (aka, the option the cat would pick if she had a fediverse account)?
Go downstairs and watch YouTube on the sofa (aka the 'Pinky and the Brain' option, that is, 'the same thing we do every night')?
Play Baldur's Gate 3?
Keep fiddling with the Ruby port of a Rust TUI library that looks kinda cool?
Have a nap (aka, the option the cat would pick if she had a fediverse account)?
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@semanticist@mastodon.social
I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
mastodon.social
@caius Wales only gets an 'assembly' instead of a parliament, and they don't even have their own money! (In their defence, their language is actually meaningfully used compared to Scots Gaelic, so there's that.)
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