extropic-engine

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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
the common thread is cybernetics
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
There is always something we can do about it. Fight. The question is whether enough people have the will to do so, or whether they have accepted their fate as cattle. https://deflock.me/council
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
Indentured servitude is voluntary and is exploitative. Whether it is voluntary is not indicative of whether it is exploitative. You have to look at the bigger picture.
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
yes
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
Oh, okay. Neat. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-abo...
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
”If people try to hold us accountable by talking among themselves about our actions, it takes away valuable time that could be used to do vaguely defined other actions” is not a terribly strong defense of moderation opacity. Especially duri
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
that doesn’t make any sense. NYT is paywalled and their links don’t get autokilled. (not your fault obviously, but whoever is calling the shots on this)
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
is there a reason given anywhere for this? is there a place to see which sites are on the list?
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
there is a simple solution to this unease and it is to stop being the ceo of one of the largest AI companies. This is reputation laundering in the form of “i feel bad for being one of the trigger pullers in this firing squad”
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
Dead the instant it hit the new page. dang, why do you let the bots bury certain news sources such as this one?
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
No it didn’t. It generated some text.
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
since the flock CEO’s comment is dead, i hope you don’t mind if i reply to him here. Your wealth and power will not save you. Your rich friends will not save you. Turning off the monstrosity you are helping to create and reckoning with what
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
it already has. those things have always been more important than bonds or gold. many books have been written about this topic, including the most famous ones.
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
i am telling you as a kindness, not a judgement. you should seek out someone in the real world to talk to about it.
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
did you know that flock has a data sharing contract with ring cameras? amazon’s panopticon is much larger. i believe it is on by default and users have to manually opt out, but i don’t have a ring camera to verify.
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
no they aren’t. a few cherry picked examples are. this is hyperreality. ask yourself what they are trying to manufacture consent for, and why
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
friends. community. family
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
you are experiencing psychosis
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by extropic-engine 10mo ago
https://phrack.org/issues/7/3 you have forgotten where you came from
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by extropic-engine 11mo ago
No, they are not better off. I have provided as many facts for my argument as you have for yours.
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by extropic-engine 11mo ago
don’t worry, account age and moral viewpoints are only correlated, not linked causally! for instance, i’ve had an account for a long time and i also believe peter thiel is an evil man. it’s an easy logical fallacy to fall into! don’t feel b
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
sorry, but “the washington times,” a site whose design and name seems suspiciously chosen to mirror that of the more well known and respected washington post, is not a reputable source by any metric that is not in bad faith. https:/&#
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
> But the vast majority of those 604 shootings are from gang members with many prior arrests shooting each other. You are just blindly asserting this. Do you have any sources?
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
oh yeah, i do this whenever i see an upsetting headline too. it has worked well for me so far! i am very excited about how bright the future will be :)
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
i hope someday you learn what love is
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
It is if the laws are fascist. Which is currently the case, and is the example given in the article.
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
have you looked at the US lately? if you're concerned for democracy i don't think deepseek is the one you need to be most worried about
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
actually operation mockingbird was the cia press influence op. project mockingbird was a different shadowy US government op that was about spying on journalists
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by extropic-engine 1y ago
sunk cost fallacy. not doing additional evil is good even if you don't undo the evil you already did. yes, you should make up for it if you can. but making up for the evil probably wouldn't involve giving money (back) to the peopl
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by extropic-engine 3y ago
or... what if men's brains are inherently bad at surgery? someone should do a study

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