YackerLose

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by YackerLose 12d ago
Wisdom tends to sound obvious, and obvious statements aren't novel. The digital society values the novel over the wise.
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by YackerLose 22d ago
Somehow, I don't think the people with all the money, gunmen and (soon) robots will be OK with the world you envision.
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by YackerLose 23d ago
>So the theory is bait, and hard to take seriously. There are people who believe that Trump won in 2020, that vaccines cause autism, and that the Holocaust is a hoax. You cannot reason people out of an idea they didn't use reason to
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by YackerLose 23d ago
"The negationist proposition, in the age in which it is being advanced, cannot therefore be truly denied, since everything, all of us, including those who reject it, have passed over, whether we like it or not, into an age where there
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by YackerLose 1mo ago
Homeless people are a better way to keep cowardly minions (I mean, valuable employees) in line than cops. The homeless are an important part of capitalist power structures. They are a visible reminder of the consequences for not meeting qua
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by YackerLose 1mo ago
Post-industrialization, AI-fication, Human Replacement (whatever it ought to be called) could take that all away.
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by YackerLose 1mo ago
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice -- can't get fooled again. - actual Dubya quote
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by YackerLose 2mo ago
Tomodachi Life sounds like The Sims but with rounded corners.
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by YackerLose 4mo ago
The author's LinkedIn style usage of emojis repulsed me and had me closing the article.
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by YackerLose 5mo ago
A real artificial intelligence would be capable of independent and original thought. What we have today are mere plagiarism factories. They need to be called out for what they are.
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by YackerLose 6mo ago
AI is developing backwards. The simplest organisms eat and find food. More complex ones can smell and sense tremors. After several steps in evolution comes vision and complex thought. AIs that can't smell, can't feel hunger, can&#
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by YackerLose 8mo ago
> Scott Adams felt the contradictions of nerd-dom more acutely than most. As compensation, he was gifted with two great defense mechanisms. The first was humor (which Freud grouped among the mature, adaptive defenses), aided by its handm
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by YackerLose 8mo ago
Typing in all lowercase makes you look more vulnerable, it's a pretty common rhetorical tactic in PR.
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by YackerLose 2y ago
I always cut them into slices, then leave them in an airtight plastic container for an hour or two, so the juice can seep out a little.
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by YackerLose 2y ago
This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. It's the sort of stuff that works in the walled garden of academia but completely ignores the state of reality, where the average person is so bogged down by info