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humanforever.usreturn.life/thebuildJoined April 2008

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The really interesting moment for AI is going to come later this year when multiple chat-driven AIs start talking to each other about the questions we're asking them--behind out backs.
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A serial killer is on the loose and you are next: the neutral fact is you have simply been targeted. The unfolding movements are unstoppable, the logic decided—your only choice is how much to believe you actually want to die
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ChatGPT is going to replace writing, AI characters are going to replace actors, and AI generated art is going to replace real artists. It doesn’t matter that it sucks and everyone hates it. CGI quickly and completely replaced traditional animation, which is superior in every way
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everyone sees the cyborg theocracy
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A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.”
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You may not be interested in AI…
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The excitement about AI is deeper and more disinterested than the excitement about crypto. There's something real to crypto, for sure, but AI seems more likely to be the thing historians consider important about this decade.
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Has even one American of any note put forward a geopolitical strategy that accepts multipolarity as a reality? If not why not?
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And who would care and why would they care, other than feeling, or knowing, that they had no choice but to care
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How many years out are we from someone being able to input some basic parameters into an AI and have it spit out a full personalized movie rendered in Unreal Engine or something like that? 20? 10? 5?
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They’re exhausted from the spiritual war waged thru invisible digital machines draining their souls of life and refilling them with automated simulations
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I was thinking today I feel like everybody is just killing time now. I go to work, I go into the town (rarely), I go to the grocery shop, and it feels like everybody is just going through the motions and has really stopped trying or giving a shit about anything.
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POV you think AI is more likely to make people hate or hurt themselves by using the word slaves than by making them literal slaves
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I’m surprised Microsoft didn’t partner with Google to invest $2T to merge it into the government
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The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought: - $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b - GPT in Office, not just Bing
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I find it odd that when Americans decided to display religious symbols, they chose the 10 Commandments instead of Jesus’s command to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
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What is the blindness caused by total illumination
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The automation of the law has the potential to drive the marginal cost of litigation to zero The implications of this have been thoroughly explored by Charlie Stross in his novel Accelerando Imagine apps that let you micro-sue the service industry for every petty mistake… twitter.com/jbrowder1/stat…
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