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  • If you really want ethics

    Via Hollywood Reporter, the AI demons are plotting how to destroy more skills. Still, across SIGGRAPH, the use of new buzzwords such as “responsible AI” underscored broad fears about the impact the tech could have on Hollywood. “I’m hearing about actors scanning themselves and copyrighting their scans. I wonder if it’s going to be affordable…

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    September 1, 2023
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    Ethics, Henry Ford, Modest proposal
  • One promising note

    The philosophers and Intelligent Design folks are still handling the wrong end of the AI question, trying to knock its competence and credibility and HumanPersonNess. Those qualities are IRRELEVANT to the Tech Tyrants who are mobilizing and implementing AI. The Hollywood strikers, who were formerly on the wrong side of nearly all questions, are hitting…

    polistra

    August 31, 2023
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    AI point-missing, Carbon Cult, skill-estate
  • What you mean ‘we’, we?

    Trump has achieved a new unbreakable record in Cognitive Dissonance and absolute lunacy. “To every [virus] tyrant we say: WE WILL NOT COMPLY!” Trump is THE tyrant. He created the lockdowns and muzzles and needles and torture and destruction of small business and murder of the elderly and infinite enrichment of the rich. Now he’s…..…

    polistra

    August 31, 2023
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    infinite CRAZY, jackboot stomping forever, Sucker Filter
  • Goddamnit, why do we learn so much harmful shit?

    One of the rather annoying world traveler types on Substack was discussing the Italian habit of walking IMMEDIATELY after eating. This violates everything we ever learned from TV and doctors and school “health” classes. They STERNLY commanded us to wait at least 30 minutes after eating. Recently I tried the Italian way. It’s unquestionably better.…

    polistra

    August 31, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Constants and Variables, experiential education
  • The rebirth of gravity

    Thoughts on the ladder of evil. Hedge funds and ‘family offices’ are the purest expressions of the will of rich demons. They don’t pretend to need customers. NGOs and foundations are the swarming branch of ‘family offices’. Historically the foundations were the first to adopt evil ideas, and the first to spread those ideas into…

    polistra

    August 31, 2023
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    Henry Wallace, Parkinson, Powell!, The Broken Circle
  • Demodernizing

    Curtis at EnidBuzz shows a downtown business expanding into a second storefront. For most of the last 100 years, downtown stores, when they weren’t simply abandoning the district, were modernizing old artistic facades, replacing them with plain aluminum or fake mansards. Now a business is increasing its downtown space by demodernizing an uninteresting facade.

    polistra

    August 30, 2023
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    defensible times, Happy Ending
  • Speaking of chickens

    Speaking of chickens… A free-range Rhode Island Red videobombed one of the Youtubers specializing in the Philly fentanyl folks. Chickens are scavengers who will eat anything, so they certainly belong in the same niche as rats and seagulls and humans. How did it get there? Well, chickens can fly, though like quail they prefer walking.…

    polistra

    August 30, 2023
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    bemusement, Grand Blueprint, Heimatkunde
  • Empathy, not credibility

    Denyse points to an interesting experiment with AI preachers. The researchers took advantage of an existing android preacher robot in a Japanese shrine. They surveyed believers who had experienced a real human sermon vs the robot sermon. The robot was seen as “less credible”, and more importantly the robot got less donations than the human.…

    polistra

    August 30, 2023
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    AI point-missing, Constants and Variables
  • BIG victory for locals

    I’ve been strictly avoiding mainstream media since the start of the hoaxocaust. This year I started watching some web coverage from TV stations. Locally because of the wildfires, nationally to see reactions to the actors strike. There is one HUGE change in local TV stations. Before the hoaxocaust, most of their ‘location’ reporters were petite…

    polistra

    August 29, 2023
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    Happy Ending, skill-estate
  • Reprint from a year ago

    One year ago I wrote this. At that time I didn’t see much hope. Now I think we’re starting to see real signs of the changeover. Why is the ice breaking? Jerome Powell stopped the free-money music that was energizing the demons. = = = = = START REPRINT: We need a Foy Rebellion. Yesterday…

    polistra

    August 29, 2023
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    Foy Rebellion, Powell!, skill-estate, Thanks
  • Three types

    In the ’50s Manhattan had three types of work. K-State, local businesses, and Fort Riley. (The enlisted men lived on base, so the Manhattan residents were mostly officers.) The offspring of those three groups were distinctly different. Business sons were ADULT. They acted like grownups, and knew how the world worked. Prof sons were not…

    polistra

    August 29, 2023
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    experiential education
  • Finally barked, sorta

    Until today the DeSantis campaign hadn’t even bothered to send anything. All the other candidates in both parties have been flooding my inbox for three months. Today for the first time the DeSantis campaign sent an email. It starts: Hi. I’m Ron DeSantis. This is who I am. He runs through his biography and his…

    polistra

    August 28, 2023
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    Duane Jones, Nonbark
  • Looks to me

    Looks to me like the Hollywood writers have just lost their case. The studios offered about 80% of what they were asking, including a solid-looking reimbursement for AI theft. In normal negotiations each side starts by asking 20% more than they really want, so an 80% offer should end the strike. The sticking point is…

    polistra

    August 28, 2023
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  • What you mean ‘we’, greenface?

    Via DailyMail: The Gaian loonies blocked a highway to protest Burning Man, apparently because Global Burning is the official name for their genocide now, and they must protect their trademark from infringement. = = = = = START QUOTE: But rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department of Nevada plowed straight through the…

    polistra

    August 28, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Carbon Cult, Happy Ending
  • Bigger questions

    This discussion on Reddit verifies a hardass fact of life. Men stop talking about our troubles because women use the information for blackmail. This is actually a special case of a broader rule. Both genders are vulnerable in other situations. Priests and Deepstate want to hear your troubles so they can use the information for…

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    August 28, 2023
    Uncategorized
    natural law = sharia law, natural law = soviet law, skill-estate
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