Post B4Pzvm1u0iabEBkq1o by crazyeddie@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B4PjMnSx51qOHRhrf6 by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       Satire? People who pay for X don't do satire.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Pm8mdFgQqpVDX9c0 by steevmi1@freeradical.zone
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       @mwl The Muses of Satire and Irony both are dead, most likely from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.It's a miracle that The Onion somehow has the will to keep publishing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Pwec4tSSevZsHMvY by jerrej@mastodon.social
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       @mwl Very very publicly asking the #tormentnexus to "explain" what the Torment Nexus is.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Px19q0cVQ6eY4Dom by Queenofpalms@mastodon.social
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       @mwl As a science teacher for 35 years, I can say with certainty that some people will never understand.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Pzvm1u0iabEBkq1o by crazyeddie@mastodon.social
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       @mwl Really love the Dune saga, INCLUDING the stuff written by his son, and I'm with the guy replying.  People act like this is some massive insight Frank Herbert had.  It's not really.  It's more a plot device because he needed the characters to be doing everything with their minds and why would humanity develop the system that required their evolution to develop those skills if there hadn't been same massive argument with computers so bad it lasts 10000 years?  That's it.  Ooooh...my messiah.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Q3IBr2yTvrYW3d8C by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @crazyeddie it is a plot device, no question.it's also a good point. outsource your thinking and you lose yourself.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Q3sLd46uuCIOl7bc by crazyeddie@mastodon.social
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       @mwl He obviously applied it to good effect and made a good effort of giving it a real history and a real imperative.  "Use it or lose it," is pretty basic though.I actually like what his son did with it here because it showed that this whole legal framework they developed against computers (not just AI -- any computer) was an irrational reaction that got codified by religious zealotry because a teenage girl had "visions" during a fever and humanity is always going to be that fucking stupid.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Q4S6pSc97goqbpDs by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @crazyeddie yes, there's a balance in all things
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Q9gVqGudZ4DkfyN6 by agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social
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       @mwl My guess is that's a bot, asking a human to write a summary, so whenever that quote comes up as a question, it can just replay the human's summary.  Who needs an LLM?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4QAAmMO3zwM8c86sq by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @agreeable_landfall entirely possible, yes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4QAx4O0LWDTwdug4m by pianosaurus@c.im
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       @mwl Alan Levinovitz knows exactly what he is doing and asking here. Friends of Mastodon, I love you people, but seriously.... WHOOSH!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4QCAdZKws1gmUFNgG by Jorsh@beige.party
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       @mwl Even if this is satire, the problem with a joke like this is that the vast majority of people don't know who this guy is and have no context for his satire, so when the outsider sees his post, it just looks like he's unironically asking the AI chat bot. That isn't some sort of elevated humor. That's a dud joke. This is, of course, simply my opinion.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4QF6qoA5FMeXt4Ehk by agowa338@chaos.social
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       @mwl It's X, so we'll probably never know.However I'd kinda have liked to see what the reply of grok was to this too :p
       
 (DIR) Post #B4QUb8lFOjTGE3bb6m by Ent@infosec.exchange
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       @mwlSaw that same quote come up while reading Sandworm, unsurprisingly