*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot
*It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume
@bruces Listen and undestand!
The LLM is out there. It cannot be reasoned with. It doesn't feel confusion or doubt or bemusement. And it absolutely will not stop... until you stop prompting it.
*Neal Stephenson making his extensive case for hand-writing fiction with pen and paper.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
So the Baroque Cycle and REAMDE were all written by hand...?
Holy moly!
What if it's never "AGI" but just a talkative two-legged chatbot that can eat all the code and mathematics
@bruces The chatbot ate my homework!
*However, the China in "Cyberpunk 2077" is so much like modern cyber-China that I'm not sure anybody from China would even bother to notice the difference
@bruces Indeed!
"Us AI people, are we Stanford-Ketamine or are we Agentic," he says, diligently exploring the tall weeds of the issue
*This is like watching a crypto guy wondering, "Are we all the money forever, or is there no such thing as money at all"
https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work?hide_intro_popup=true
Yeah well, I was taught in a uni course back in 1991 that technological determinism was a fallacy.
I think it was true then, and i think still is.
It is a pity so many CS professors seems to not subscribe to the same belief...
RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/117127656418584102
*I guess we're cordially overlooking that busted Russian pipeline in Danish territorial waters
*"That was then, this is now"
@bruces Ah well! The Danes are still buying US maritime drones after all the noise about US wanting Denmark to give them Greenland https://www.saildrone.com/eu-en/media-room/press-releases/saildrone-announces-major-european-expansion-local-production-operations-business-development
*A "Google Creative Lab" Raspberry Pi Google-Translator unit.
I am trying to figure out if I feel the slightest urge to check it out....?
Nah... not a twinge.
*Giant Chinese electric robot tractor
*I'm guessing this somehow helps the millet-harvest
@bruces Looks like our Robot Overlords are saving some millet for us.
@bruces China is absolutely eating our lunch.
@bruces Inspired by the Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactic 2004?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.kYdidUmoGdNr16ctZYpPmgHaE8%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=3d5940a82ec975a33d2b03b3071c8123e8c0be2cf3d156a26c1c69d9da1a920b&ipo=images
Looks a bit like a terminator skull, doesn't it...?
Or maybe a Cylon...?
Ah, well... at least John Deere can't arbitrarily brick it.
@bruces communist farm collectives, only now it's just one guy with a laptop
*Who else wants to pirate Chinese chips and loudly pretend to have built them
*Seems like a trend with legs, really
(I read "chinese pirate ships" and thought: "That's interesting!")
"What happens when we "fork" and the bro in the forkpod next-door is Sam Altman and I can't stand him
@bruces Why do so many AI-generated images illustrating space travel or "progress" feature an archaic Space Shuttle?
@bruces Those digital upload people are unrealistically confident that their consciousnesses will be backed up and restored religiously and not left to rot like an old film reel.
@bruces Word!
@bruces maybe the solution is to just sell those B ark people a blockchain enabled dongle with a Wifi antenna, an AI generated booklet on how to drill this in their skull and a cyanide fork acceleration pill.
@bruces motherforkers!
@bruces I call bullshit. Fork 4 is actually Fork 1 and has been happening for a while now. It’s also the only one that actually matters.
@bruces Having thought about it, I think I'd rather spoon.
Of course, this also raises the worrying possibility that humanity might spork, and I don't think anyone's ready for that.
@bruces the earth people hanging out on .. earth ..1 ? or did we decide to make twin earths ? either way i wanna sit outside in nature with a bottle of wine ..
Maybe they got one thing accidentally right though. Everyone on Earth is living in the Arctic because thanks to the pursuit of this farcical techno-dystopia the rest of the planet is uninhabitable.
@bruces I guess it’s just another instance of “fork around, find out”.
On a more serious note, none of these suggested "forks" are actually biologically incompatible, so it seems more like a lifestyle choice, albeit at a larger scale. Since most of the choices fall straight in line with financial capabilities (you can’t have a nice simulation of you running if you’re broke), new options will only widen the social gap some more.
@bruces I don't agree between choosing between valuing terrestrial life and space exploration.
Imhi, both are interlinked
As in, instead of mining and destroying our planet, we should find asteroids with the necessary materials and get those
If we worked towards doing stuff in space, instead of inside our planet, we could surely have both
P.S. Before the "is expensive" crowd comes in, that's because we currently don't calculate the ecological impact in the expenses.We throw that to the future
@bruces maybe you need to reissue Schizmatrix
@bruces this would be a great time to discover paratime technologies and watch humanity Spork
@bruces
I have a better use case for forking. It may or may not involve a fork and Sam Altmann's face.
@bruces
Eh, fork Sam Altman
*Trying to drive in the GPS Jamming Zone.
https://restofworld.org/2026/gps-disruption-gulf-gig-workers/
🤔
Almost as if we shouldn't rely on a government provided service that can be disrupted/jammed/destroyed by anyone including that same government...
Who'da thunk it?
🙄🙄
Maybe have a backup plan like map making/printing/reading...???
🤡🫏💩💩
Back in my youth we had these things called "maps".
Was on paper.
No radio or electricity required.
Yeah, and also compasses,
