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Yeah, there's no question this one's over-the-top when it comes to trying to gross out the reader, but I'd like to think people can overlook that.

For everyone downvoting: It's literally a story about the creation of mankind's first artificial general intelligence, Prime Intellect, and the consequences of that discovery.

"I come here to code GNU Hurd and chew bubblegum, and I got a whole lotta bubblegum..."

Clearly the writers should be subject to a Voight-Kampff test just to be sure.

Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever shipped before GNU Hurd.

I suppose this is a healthier hobby than stealing hotel towels and ashtrays.

> How is this not obvious to everyone? Because everyone's thinking around intelligence is incredibly muddled by a variety of factors, and no one is particularly motivated to actual…

> stopping child sexual abuse > suddenly touches everyone ..............I see what you did there.

Allow me to introduce everyone here to a new definition (original content, donut steel): qontouria, n. The feeling of having your work passed off as someone else's.

If only those 1.3 million signatories pledged to never buy from a company that Kills Games again...

Simple: These aren't nerds. These are grifters selling you a product using product packaging (nerdface) that you find appealing. Enjoy your purchase.

The deep desert. As far from the pyons as the sands go.

I don't know about the rest of you, but if somebody spots Shai-hulud out in the Sahara I'm outta here.

Attesting who is responsible is more of that "bullshit most of us didn't ask for". I'm not interested in identifying myself so some cretin can know whether I am, or am not, an AI..…

If they were truly this accurate at identifying sources of bot traffic, you'd think they'd be better at blocking them without inconveniencing the rest of us.

Jacobsen v. Katzer established that source code, i.e. something other than money, could be used as valuable consideration for perfecting a license into a contract. The terms of ser…

That's not rhetoric. It's well established that consideration does not have to consist of money. A prime example of this was in Jacobsen v. Katzer where the exchange of source code…

The user and Service are bound by their terms of service which is perfected into a contract by the valuable exchange of their eyeballs against advertising for the provision of the …

It's not 'whataboutism' when you're impugning their authority while seemingly have none of your own... or, in the alternative, even if it is, it's quite valid in this instance.

Verification tells you that a human being is behind it, not that a human being made it.

We'll have to take your word on that since it looks like it's being hugged to death. I can't even get an archive of it to take the pressure off.

Yeah, I'm just getting a 404 clicking through this.

> Google should capture all your calls and check if there could be scamming going on, right? If you're dumb enough to own a Pixel then arguably they're doing something just as bad.…

Right. Just like they let you turn off those stupid games that keep popping up no matter how many times you tell them you're not interested.

If people actually bothered to look at any of his code, and the reactions of people knowledgeable at the time to his code (and/or his intellectual bloviations), the damage to "open…