Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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Where’s Petrillo when we need him?
The tech demons read dystopian fiction as blueprints and instruction manuals, not horrible warnings. Anthropic digested Bradbury’s book along with millions of others, and decided to do more than just copying Bradbury. They bought millions of books from used-book stores, scanned and stole the content, then destroyed the books. The news story popped from emails…
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Dammit, it’s not the output 2
Last week I noted that people were trying to sound “more human” by varying their vocabulary and grammar. I predicted that Altman’s coders would quickly counteract this tactic by adding more variation. A couple days later a Verge item revealed that Altman’s coders were already working on it. I’m more concerned with the input theft…
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Says more about humans than aliens
This cartoon is splendid. It tells us how Altman thinks of himself. More importantly it reveals our basic brain structure. A single little 0 doesn’t cause dissonance. We feel it as nothing and we calculate it as nothing. A BIG zero like 0,000,000,000,000 feels BIG, even though our language processor tells us it’s still nothing.…
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Extremely positive signs from schools!
1. Enid High has an aviation class. They spent the last three years BUILDING THEIR OWN AIRPLANE! It has been certified as flightworthy by FAA. It’s a beautiful plane and a fantastic achievement. 2. On a much smaller scale, nice to see a school teaching math the RIGHT way! Cheney High, south of Spokane, is…
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Hardass for hardass
It’s easy to tell when a new stronger batch of fentanyl comes along. The overdose deaths suddenly spike. I’m getting the same spiky feel from the AI addicts. They seem to be smoking a batch that tells them to go hardass, to smash the remaining skeptics and heretics. Altman’s distribution chain is much more instant…
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Year end shit for 2025
I guess I’ll turn this 2014 reprint into the annual Year End Shit. It’s a heartfelt piece expressing how I feel about the world, and has some up-to-date resonance. Normally I try to reprint or link my best tech history piece or my best blog writing. This year I’ve been tired and distracted by external…
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Building a better bot trap
This is funny as hell! WSJ let Anthropic run an office vending machine with AI. Their employees baited it with TREMENDOUSLY smarter and sneakier bot traps than I’ve been trying here! The AI went along with requests to make all items free, ordered a live fish, ordered a Playstation, and announced a Communist Revolution in…
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Why don’t they USE their goddamn AI?
Microsoft and most other software makers are proudly using AI to track your preferences, and SUPPOSEDLY to adjust the software for your preferences. FALSE. There’s no adjustment. Two specific examples. (1) Firefox claims to be using AI, but their adjuster has never noticed that I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS type in the top URL bar. In…
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LemonAIde 4
Just recording this for my own purposes, since this is a purely private diary with no human readers. Last week I tried an experiment. The bots who steadily “read” this blog were focusing on one particular item about the Phelps induction telegraph. There’s no reason for this item to be hugely popular. I tried replacing…
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Unexpected wisdom
JuicyEcumenism summarizes how various churches are responding to Altman. Most are fucking stupid and self-destructive. The smart one surprised me! Dumb #1: Catholic. The new pope sounded good until he backslid into the same old shit. Here’s the official doctrine at the moment: = = = = = START DUMB: AI’s intelligence is understood functionally…
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LemonAIde 3
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LemonAIde
I’ve been writing this blog for 20 years. Until this year I usually had two or three semi-regular readers. This year the humans are gone, leaving nothing but AI bots. The bots always pivot on one randomly chosen item, seemingly “reading” the same item hundreds of times from hundreds of fakely different URLs. This item…
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Halfway meaningful
You may be a winner! We get a constant flow of notices for class action payouts. Most pertain to some product we never used. This one is somewhat relevant. Anthropic AI reached a settlement with a class group of authors, paying everyone whose book was in LibraryGenesis. I’m coauthor of two books in this group,…
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Dogs hate it (reprint from 2023)
Generative AI is securitized IP. It’s identical to those Mortgage-Backed Securities that blew up in 2008. Suck up a million real houses and farms, mix the debt together into batter, bake it, slice the cake into a million pieces, each containing a hologram of the originals without any way of identifying the original property. Sell…
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Switchover
Two sides have flipped. Part of the flip is a fine positive surprise. The “independent” intellectuals are supine servants of Altman now. They’re happy slaves, competing for the best way to use more of Altman’s demonic products and make Altman richer. This side of the switch is predictable. The same switch happened earlier with the…
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