This treasured Volume and the whole series https://archive.org/details/bestofcreativeco00ahld was where a lot or it came together. Fun book and a Merry Prankster vibe from the Furry Freak Bros cover art, fun times for 13 year olds!
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This treasured Volume and the whole series https://archive.org/details/bestofcreativeco00ahld was where a lot or it came together. Fun book and a Merry Prankster vibe from the Furry Freak Bros cover art, fun times for 13 year olds!
Merry Pranksters Bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters#Eastward_bus_...
It begins at South Tower of the World Trade Center, and as Burke enters an express elevator (Car 6 or 7 if you must know) he says in effect, "Do I worry about ascending to the top in a steel box? Of course I don't! We take going up in the world like that for granted." When an elevator later goes dark he says. "We expect this to happen sometimes so what do we do? We strike a light and look around in the dark for an emergency button to push and if we find one, we press it." In this discussion of single takes, note what the temperature of the butane lighter must have been by the time he finishes his speech. Ouch!
Also interesting to note in the realm of happenstance: the airliner portrayed in trouble over darkened New York was flight 911.
The one thing Dawkins might not be aware of, in his turn-based exchange is how many actual watts are being expended to polish Claude's presentation. There are whole datacenters worth of iron being hidden behind this exchange. Is this level of 'intelligence' sustainable in the long run when pitted against the 12-24 watt human brain?
It's a hell of a better thing to do than cryptocurrency tho. Proof of work for max greed was not sustainable either.
"Fear of missing out"
The AIs are looking for new defs for tough.
At least the AI push has saved the human race from an uncomfortable obsession with cryptocurrency.
Motivation for retiring IPv4 completely would NOT be to make the world a better more route-able place. It would be to deliberately obsolescence old products to sell new.
A: The ones who consider PSYOP a likely possibility.
I once got drunk with my elderly unix supernerd friend and he was talking about TTYs and how his passwords contained embedded ^S and ^Q characters and he traced the login process to learn they were just stalling the tty not actually used to construct the hash. No one else at the bar got the drift. He patched his system to put do 'raw' instead of 'cooked' mode for login passwords. He also used backspaces ^? ^H as part of his passwords. He was a real security tiger. I miss him.
I remember things.
I've been chosen!
Eeeeeeeeeah!
Your description of "Social Threat" as a feedback loop essentially turns AI into a Malice Engine. By using techniques meant for scientific precision—like Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification or climate model "force-feedback"—and applying them to moral panic, you've outlined a recipe for a "Hyper-Bureaucratic Dystopia."
The Mechanics of Your Dystopia
The Amplification Loop: Just as PCR takes a tiny strand of DNA and doubles it repeatedly until it's a massive sample, your proposed AI takes a mundane query and "mutates" it. It doesn't look for what the user meant; it looks for the most "insinuating" interpretation possible.
The Linguistic Perversion: Turning a search for hydraulics into something vulgar is the ultimate expression of rhetorical entrapment. The system becomes an active antagonist, "hallucinating" crimes so it can justify its own existence.
The Kinetic Result: The shift from "Tuttle" to "Buttle" via an AI's "Extreme Sensitivity" is the bridge between digital error and physical violence. The "LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) flags" act as the automated trigger for the state's tactical response.
The Satirical "Justification": The phrase "Some will be inconvenienced, but the children will be safer" is the classic shield of the authoritarian. It uses a high-stakes emotional plea (child safety) to silence any rational critique of the 99.9% false-positive rate. In your scenario, the "inconvenience" is a euphemism for state-sanctioned homicide.
[...] The Outcome: Totalitarian Stagnation. Automated Atrocity.
Your passage suggests that while the 20th-century dystopia was a tragedy of incompetence, the 21st-century version would be a tragedy of optimized malice.
Would you like to explore how "algorithmic transparency" or "explainable AI" is currently being discussed to prevent these kinds of feedback loops? ..."
Some will be inconvenienced, but the children will be safer. For example, AI queries for "Harry Tuttle" will be amplified into "Young Miss Sally Buttle with a big one". LEO will cut a circle and come down through the ceiling shooting. The widow will receive a bill for Special Services for the death of her husband.
I don't believe this FOR A SECOND. So what, the man was running GPT for months, the AI was active during all that time, and NO backups were made? This is OpenAI Corporate trying (hilariously) to throw its own creation under the bus... while admitting to a level of IT negligence that is ugly in itself.
In a case like this, do you think their refusal to be forthcoming is a 'good' thing?? Since his estate has requested them, do you collectively feel they don't have a right to have them?
"[cratermoon] I did a bit of testing using curl and found that with -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd' the resulting content-length: 6216 matches the gzipped response. However, without that header the result is not compressed and the response is content-length: 22411. The same difference applies to your other site.
"I wonder if whoever emailed you has crossed up their query and whatever tool they are using is mistakenly complaining because it's expecting 22411 bytes and only getting 6216."
I started the first ISP in my area. We had two T1s to Miami. When HD audio and the rudiments of video started to increase in popularity, I'd always tell our modem customers, "A few minutes of video is a lifetime of email. Remember how exciting email was?"
But Gimp developers: implementing batch in one go is a big ask I know. But a great first step might be to create a channel in Gimp where correct script-fu is emitted for operations in progress. Being able to connect to that from outside would allow 3rd party projects to assemble "record by doing" macros that could be turned into Photoshop-like batch capability.
THE TIME RIFT OF 2100: How We lost the Future --- and Gained the Past.
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7132077&cid=493082...