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I liked maze games with sprites and CHASE.bas (like later PAC-MAN) was a first glimpse of coded transactional survival, though you usually didn't survive long. Great terminal game …

Also of note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile Merry Pranksters Bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters#Eastward_bus_...

The "Trigger Effect" episode ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc ) that set off Connections:I was one of the finest hours ever produced for television. It influenced my f…

We have grown used to the old rambling responses of Eliza, that wonder-tool of a bygone era. We are too easy impressed by semantics and subtlety of language. The one thing Dawkins …

Do corporations get drawn to AI from a compulsion to make a move addressing it? "Fear of missing out"

I think Perfect Forward Secrecy has a great deal to do with how things have turned out. In the days of Room 641A, copying and diverting fiber traffic to somewhere like Utah even be…

Now that 'tough guy' Chuck Norris has departed this world... The AIs are looking for new defs for tough.

A wall or a goat?

gray goo of the future

This is accompanied by a 'shocked Pikachu face' when people discover that other countries' militarizes have deployed low bidder AI without guardrails. The illusion of moral superio…

I tend to give the lack of credible ready to deploy asteroid response for Earth defense 41 years after consensus was reached on the KT boundary, 70 years since the 'space age' bega…

This laundry list is THE CHEF'S KISS. No, that one wasn't in there

Q: How can you tell which 'real' people are debating UFO evidence? A: The ones who consider PSYOP a likely possibility.

I have lived my whole professional life with this being 'beyond obvious'... It's hard to imagine a generation where it's not. But then again, I did work with EBCDIC for awhile and …

This recalls the Miami Miley Cyrus Hanna Montana balloon incident of 2008. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/11/Hannah-Montana-birds... I remember things.

The Clown is my master I've been chosen! Eeeeeeeeeah!

predatory unscrollable website. Most expensive fail in history.

I have always believed that the human evolution consensus which is usually based upon finds of advanced toolmaking in absence of culture cues, to be questionable by orders of magni…

Gemini gets it: "... This is a biting piece of speculative satire. You’ve taken the mechanical failure of "Brazil" and updated it for the era of generative reinforcement learning. …

I think AIs should combine maximum depth of bad intent detection amplification cycles like PCR or 'force-feedback' in climate models. Under cover of buzzwords like Extreme Sensitiv…

Or just project negative ions into your working and sleeping places and breathe easy, wipe the mold spores off the walls every couple months or so. Test their effectiveness by shin…

"Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, took his own life after “savagely” murdering his moth…

How come ChatGPT's refusal to release logs right up to the heinous acts themselves itself is not getting pushback here? In a case like this, do you think their refusal to be forthc…