If we discover intelligent extraterrestrial life, I’m sure the first question our current leaders will ask will be “how do we monetize this?”

more like blow le fart

Before LLMs were a thing, my CS1 professor used to call it “The Big Bang Theory”: You write some code and then BANG! It works!

Of course, it doesn’t work, and the results are unpredictable bad software that you don’t understand. The point of the analogy was that you need to analyze and literally iterate over code to gain concrete proof of what it was actually doing to engineer a coherent software design.

I swear to god, it’s like The Game. I go months without thinking about Charlie Kirk and when it happens I feel like I’ve lost.

Sorry, by the way.

Some memorable quotes:

Speaking to Sean Hannity, Patel claimed that artificial intelligence was never used at the FBI until the second Trump administration.

Patel added: “What’s the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can’t sift through it?”​

“I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results,” he said.

​“The former FBI rejected that notion because they knew…that wasn’t their focus,” he said, referring to the implementation of A.I.

This guy must be half-blind from slapping back his entire supply of cheap bourbon because he can’t see a single red flag in any of these statements. I realize a fascist techno-dystopia has been the plan all along, but even after the last 10 years the hubris still astonishes me.

I completely made it up for the purposes of this silly meme.

Looks like aluminum plated solid gold to me!

We want your children to be safer online so we forced them to self-identify with biometric data? Isn’t that part of what caused this in the first place?

Privacy, security, and regulation is the answer here, not more surveillance capitalism. But that’s anathema to the business models of every social media company so instead we get this ham-fisted attempt at jamming the square peg of “digital advertising surveillance” into the round hole of “protecting children”. The mechanical action damages everything involved.

This system is specifically and very effectively designed to monitor, analyze, addict, and sell people, and this “solution” just ends up being more engineering to that end. Asking it to selectively age-gate content is like inventing a global network for information transfer and then becoming outraged when it’s used for file sharing. Copy is an intrinsic operation of digital data, and exploitation is an intrinsic operation of social media. We’re asking it to do the opposite of what it’s created to do.

Parents should be in charge of filtering content for their children, and the government should be in charge of using the collective power of the people to regulate companies that exploit them instead of serving them. Asking social media companies to do it is backing the wolf truck up to the chicken coop while the guy hired to protect the chickens tells you “The wolves will protect the chickens from other predators!”

Similarly, 404 Media revealed last year that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched ALPR data to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. The officer searched 6,809 different camera networks, including in states where abortion access is protected by law. The search record just listed the reason as: “had an abortion, search for female”.

“State’s rights” everyone.

The value of the prop used in the movie notwithstanding, a quick search suggested that a real 56 carat diamond with qualities and rarity similar to the Hope Diamond would be worth close to $600 million, but no such thing actually exists.

So what I meant was: of course Hollywood has to come up with the ultimate jewel “worth more than the Hope Diamond”, to quote the movie.

All great points. Maybe there’s a metal detecting technology that can sniff specific types of metal? Or, some kind of density scan that could be tuned to the materials in the necklace?

Ostensibly, they would be directly over the Titanic wreck because they were currently diving it, and the time the necklace was dropped as they were standing there when that old crone dropped it in front her middle-class daughter and the crew dedicating their professional lives to finding it. Estimations of the ocean currents and mockups of a necklace falling in seawater might tighten the search area.

The real question is, how long could you comb a sea floor littered with Titanic debris before costs rose to more than the value of the necklace?

By the way: RIP to Bill Paxton: Space Marine, Tornado Chaser, and Shipwreck Archeologist. May you find the Heart of the Ocean in your heavenly dreams. You are missed 😢

When the lady you invited on your ship to find a necklace chucks it overboard:

The 46 carat Hope Diamond on which the fictional Heart of the Ocean is based, is estimated at $200 - $300 million today.

The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.

Although, since the diving vessel is directly on top of where the heavy metal necklace would conceivably fall, it might not take too long to locate it on the sea floor:

The original search area for the Titanic was about 150 square miles, and the Titanic is only about 90 feet wide. So, for every Titanic width-sized object, you would need to search about 1.32 million positions.

If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift, and the necklace is effectively 4 inches wide, you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions. Although, being directly over the Titanic wreck could hamper metal detecting. It would be pretty ironic if the necklace fell back on to the deck of the wreck.

So, suck on that ya old entitled bitch!

You can obtain a license by running the activation script after Windows installation, including a permanent hardware license if desired. The easiest way is to use PowerShell and select the HWID option:

irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

Technically this registers your hardware and key with the MS activation server, but you never have to worry about it again.

If you use Rufus to write the ISO to a bootable USB drive, it has options for disabling the user-level telemetry and MS account requirement.

Been running it for years with no issue.

Standard Windows is fully enshittified, but Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is free, supported until 2032, relatively debloated, and won’t randomly encrypt your hard drive.

Of course, you can always try out Linux.

You know, when Boeing let the MBAs run engineering, several hundred people died. It doesn’t seem like any other companies have learned from this.

In the spirit, I’m here to tell you that I just made this up. I have no formal training in AI or LLMs. Although, I do know a little about computers and writing. I mostly wrote this in 30 minutes while making coffee so I could trade it for the little dopamine numbers in my doom square.

The propensity of the average person to simply believe what they’re told is staggering, and I know because I do it all the time. It takes effort to seek out information, vet it, consider it, and then make a determination on the next information to seek or the next course of action. Deterministic, trustworthy information and abstracted concepts are extremely valuable to the brain, an organ that consumes roughly 20% of our body’s energy.

Before, computers performed tasks that were impossible for the human mind. Machine learning has been automating tasks impossible for humans such as computer vision or large dataset processing, but chatbots are the first technology that has really enabled automating human thought. In this new sense, directly offloading this cognitive work to a computer is literally letting it think for us.

The more reliant on this mode of thinking we become, the easier it is to transfer cognitively expensive work to a device that externalizes that energy cost. However, the trade-offs that are emerging are:

• Internal electric brain energy is traded for relatively inefficient external electricity production to feed circuits.

• The words generated by LLM’s must still be verified and combined into coherent, dependable ideas and actions.

• The drive and skill required to develop good ideas that have value is degraded without constant practice.

In the end, it becomes only a slightly less amount of work to perform the same thinking process for checking and mentally processing the output of an LLM chatbot, which defeats its purpose. If you skip that step of contextualizing it as possibly representing corporate interest and diluting meaning while offering a juicy cognitive shortcut, you’re becoming willingly complacent in your own digital brainwashing. This effect is also emergent and automatic; it doesn’t even have to be of nefarious purpose, it seems to be a procedural consequence of this mode of thinking.

What I really fear, and what is also emerging, is that eventually AI agents will become so advanced and trusted that their end-to-end capabilities will make mistakes and ulterior motives impossible to spot, and that they will become completely above the capability and desire for human scrutiny.

These digital brains we trained on all of human knowledge are now in the process of training us.

lifetime of extreme undeserved generational wealth

commit financial fraud and sex crimes with impuny for decades

bang/murder underage teenagers on private island whenever

marry a supermodel who absolutely despises you but can’t do anything about it

spout absolute narcissistic ego-pumping nonsense and get elected president (wat.)

openly and continuously betray the United States and nothing happens (lol)

multiple assassination attempts, literally just a tiny scratch on the ear

get dementia and fumble through new middle east war just because that’s what presidents do lol

get impeached twice and nothing happens

tHiNgS ArE LoOkInG QuItE BaD fOr TrUmP!!!111 hurdrrr!

This is quite possibly the luckiest, most privileged person who will ever live. If the White House was hit by a giant meteor tomorrow, Trump would somehow survive. Expect this walking talking piece of shit to live to 117, and get elected 5 more times.

Things are looking BAD for the RETARDS OF THE UNITED STATES who elected this hyper-douche TWICE. Are you fucking kidding? DONALD TRUMP will be just fine. The rest of us are FUCKED, as planned.

In order for this man to actually see justice, you would need to invent time travel. The mere existence of the Trump family is definitive evidence that the base state of existence is chaotic entropy and that morality is a frail human dalliance on par with the credibility of astrology.

A new HOLOCAUST is brewing. To flippantly wave false hope with such a headline is at best ignorant complicity. I think I’m going to throw up.