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> Is he forcing people to login to Instagram or Facebook? Yes. The "no one is putting a gun to users' heads" argument is irrelevant when it comes a trillion-dollar company invested…

One that just happens to be very convenient for the machine-god peddling billionaires.

And they are, at present, correct.

Thank you! I ran into this a ton in college, and still do sometimes with new (to me) authors. I was confident about what was happening, but it's nice to know it's a documented phen…

What, you mean, like American Machine and Foundry building nuclear reactors? https://www.ans.org/news/article-1858/elk-river-rural-americ...

>The end goal of AI is to create quasi-gods. I think this is what is driving the hype, the mania, and what increasingly appears to be insanely high investment. It's not about the u…

Since no one else has said it, "The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/

Police used Flock's license plate network to stalk women in at least 50 cases https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-used-flocks-lice...

Yeah, it's not like there are AI-focused hedge funds crashing and burning right now.

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You start with "real utilitarian value" and your example is... how much you pay for it. That sounds more like a drug habit.

Glen Cook was killing off major characters back in the 1980s.

The Trust Thermocline: https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01ggz99w9kvpp6yq52abes00eq...

X̅ ? (I'm a little sad the five-digit date hasn't become popular.)

I suspect the fear comes from both seeing NIST as a single point of critical failure, and perhaps also that it is a far less resilient and/or far more vulnerable, institution than …

They're just meeting the standards American society has set.

My own best guess is that the U.S. will never come around, but its successor states probably will.

When you have time, you might wish to track down the history of Krupp[1]. A German company, they sold arms to all sides in WWI, having gained the the freedom to do so by previously…

"The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment"[1] And from Wikipedia[2], "The Dark Enlightenment, also called the Neo-Reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-…

And yet, Rome borrowed from far more than the Greeks. Norse deities are popular, and seemingly more recognizable than classical Greek myth to those in North America with whom I've …

I'm a little confused on why anyone would pay this much for a phone. (Although if you consider it conspicuous consumption that happens to work as a phone, I can believe that.)

Why would we need to play Eclipse Phase when we can spend all our time LARPing the Fall instead?

How would Uncle Sam like his police state wrapped today: "national security" or "think of the children"?

Why not go all the way and call the Internet a national security threat?

That would be closer to the third man effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_man_factor