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INSERT Blake screaming at Alan and MacLeod in Highlander II: The Quickening "Please don't bother, Alan. Every time you turn that thing on it just gets printed out in my office. And…

> The encryption . . . debate is already over – Facebook ended it earlier this year. [...] After all, if either user’s device is compromised, unbreakable encryption is of little re…

I was replying to @OedipusRex. The "demanding a key to every lock" bit.

It's funny how the tl;dr of these articles usually just amounts to "Oh, so they're just lazy and overbearing thieves."

"Parasitical Autosync Functionality in AI as Agressive Autoimmune Disease: An Epidemiological View"

> In low-trust societies, you never know. You expect to be cheated, often without recourse. You expect things not to be what they seem and for promises to be broken, and you don’t …

"Is it live, or is it Memorex?"

Don't forget: Epistemologically speaking, it may be the 'clinical setting' itself that is disrupting or obscuring the effect.

> Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in several key areas that are essential to journalism, including complex communication, expert thinking, adaptability and creativi…

Memories of http://ziron.extinct.ly

Reminds me of that octo-human hybrid imprisoned in a robot that looks like a giant walking smartphone from "Twenty-First Century in Twenty-One Words or Less": https://1.bp.blogspot…

> None of the above are (moral) value judgements, but they’re really easy to get accustomed to Playing economic limbo with constantly updating 'how low can you go?' data as the sti…

The discussion is probably more relevant now than it was in 2008 re: expansion in the ridiculous 'gig economy' sphere since then.

> If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first. ...& if you don't want the stateful gorilla?

OOO sucks too

It's a fun sight when all of the subcontractor of subcontractor of subcontractor recursion chains form a beanstalk into the heavens /peanutgallery

What would the growing tech dystopia be without recourse to some sort of 'zombie pig' threshold at the hardware level?

Failure in loving, failure in living from everyone's favourite pre-quantum either/or philosopher of the 0/1 binary. Let's give it up for Søren Kierkegaard!

The article could have been written ~5 years ago with maybe a few interchangeable variables and would have expressed the same feeling of being frozen in an unchanging dystopian tim…

Kierkegaard is pretty hilarious too tbqh

Comedy option: every detected object is labeled with the word "noumena"