Tag: Foy Rebellion
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Unsophisticated ASM
Continuing the food chain rule in terms of programming. I started programming in assembly language on the early PCs. There was very little “sophisticated food” available for the task I wanted to perform, so I had to write more of the action myself. There was also very little memory and disk space compared to modern…
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Halal vs AI
This has undoubtedly been said many times (heh) but I don’t recall reading it before. Customized one-hour productions like movies, novels, plays, symphonies and operas are totally unlike all other human activity. All other activity consists of repeated reused segments, interspersed with possibly original commentary or filigrees. The typical job repeats the same transaction or…
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No, wait
As usual I was doomscrolling, noting that many colleges are dropping “humanities” courses, which really means torturer training courses. I was pissed because all the online writeups were bemoaning the loss, blaming Deplorables. No, wait! WHY AM I PISSED? THE ACTUAL TREND IS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. The bitching from well-paid devils is a…
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Even the Austinites are rebelling
Ted Gioia is enough of an insider that he gets invited to their events. He reports that even the wild-eyed Innovative Disruptors at the annual Austin SXSW thing are tired of AI. When a speaker spewed the standard Effective Altruism pitch for AI, promising to enrich the rich and cull the Negative Externalities more effectively…
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More of the oddity
Lately I’ve been noticing an oddity, which may not be an actual trend. The official myth of “the economy” has been based on strictly fake and fictional “numbers” at least since Nixon. If we defined unemployment the same way we did in the 30s, the current unemployment would be the same as the 30s. We…
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Converse
I’ve made the same observation about long-distance communication and languages, but for some reason didn’t fully assemble the two observations. Time to assemble. = = = = = Long-distance communication systems are always built by conquering armies and stock swindlers. The Chappe system was the archetype. It was built by the globalist “science”-godded tyrants of…
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Foy on film
Jeff Childers, a lawyer who writes on the anti-vax side, has a lawyerly observation about the progress of AI. = = = = = START QUOTE: Soon, AI will not just be able to create millions of made-up videos, but it will also easily modify existing, ‘real’ video, of real people and real events, changing…
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Cargo cults
Following on the unsurprising Newsweek disappointment… When dinosaurs grow big and arrogant, mammals will take over one way or another. After sensing the threat, a dinosaur will try two different responses, both of which will ultimately fail. One is suppression, and the other is fake adaptation. Fake adaptation has a cargo cult flavor. The dinosaur…
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Interesting career, drab ideas
Pointed via Denyse as usual, the strange book and career of Julian Jaynes. Jaynes published only one book, which became popular among philosophers who like to discuss pointless and untestable questions. He theorized that modern awareness was a recent development. = = = = = START QUOTE: Humans were not fully conscious until about 3,000…
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Reaches the same conclusion
Ramesh Thakur writing for Brownstone reaches the same conclusion that I reached a couple years ago. Thakur is comparing the British Post Office mess, which was finally compensated way too late, with the “virus” holocaust, which hasn’t even decisively stopped let alone compensated. The two monstrosities are infinitely different in scale. The PO mess ruined…
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Exact parallel
Business Insider says that tired and disgusted workers are demanding cubicles, after two decades of QE and ZIRP and the idiotic WeWork “open offices”. = = = = = START QUOTE: Little did anyone realize that within a few years, the cubicle walls would come crashing down. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open…
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Buckle down and stay lazy!
I’m noticing a common theme in a lot of writers this week, which looks orchestrated. Let’s buckle down and get back to work! Let’s keep the wheels turning at full speed! Start families, have babies! NO. This is what the Tyrants want. They want everyone cheerfully working together to achieve total destruction. Empires don’t collapse…
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Hope everyone copies this law!
Via ArsTechnica, Britain is requiring software firms to notify users in advance of their endless psychopathic updates which always destroy functionality and prevent work. Apple is threatening to leave Britain. GOOD! I hope all countries enact similar laws so Apple will leave all countries.
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Another argument for Foy
Compact Mag has a powerful article on an obscure British scandal. What happens when you trust the machine more than humans? Lots of innocent people end up in jail. In 2000 the British post office hired Fujitsu to build a software system linking all the post office branches in stores and other locations to the…
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2012 as seen from 1962
This 1962 publication by IRE (now IEEE) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the organization and looked ahead to 2012 with a series of “lookbacks”. The supermodern superadvanced world-peaceful 2012 inhabitants looked back with contempt at horrible neanderthal 1962. Technical predictions were highly accurate and not really prophetic, since all the necessary pieces were either finished…
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