graymalk
Graymalk

There are likely no truly uncontacted tribes left. There are some that choose to remain as they are, but they’ve been contacted at some point, and now know enough to know that anything strange they see is caused by us. Some maintain regular contact by way of tribe members travelling to cities and learning whatever they learn. So a lot of them probably know about airplanes.
These days most of them are more akin to mennonites and Amish, with one huge exception being the tribe out in the Maldives somewhere (the one that attacks on sight).

2023-08-16 04:57:38 UTC

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Private Relay. Paid service, but dunno which one as I’ve been paying for iCloud for years. I think it’s bundled with that. It also includes “hide my email” where it’ll generate unique anon email addies on the fly. I think it’s Apple’s best service but it might also be their least known.

2023-08-15 04:59:21 UTC

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The Apple one triggers it too.

2023-08-15 04:58:43 UTC

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The trick is to be slow.

2023-08-15 04:57:20 UTC

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ChatGPT should be able to fix that.

2023-08-15 04:56:19 UTC

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😂

2023-08-13 02:23:59 UTC

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Your test subject might get some random events the second time around that are different from the first. Random being by definition not controllable by the copy paste. The uninverse is weird.

2023-08-13 02:17:24 UTC

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I sometimes have fun imagining that all of the earth factory is really just building up to silicon-based life as the next evolutionary burp.

2023-08-13 02:11:53 UTC

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And sometimes I think about why some people think things like ChatGPT are already conscious. My personal untested take is that it probably seems conscious to them because it’s SMARTER than they are. The average overall intelligence level of the data set is probably higher than the population average. 😂

2023-08-13 02:05:32 UTC

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Yup. I share this line of reasoning and have based on it a worry that we can’t expect to recognize alien life if we encounter it in space. We are only good at recognizing mammals, and then decreasingly less good as we go farther and farther out. The only thing that usually tips us off is if it moves, but you mentioned plants… plants move, but only slowly. It doesn’t trigger that same reaction unless we can speed up a video. And yet we persist in looking for alien life. 😬
I suspect one major issue for AI though is that it’s a simulation, specifically of us, except it can never *be* us because we exist in an analog world. So I think AGI is dead in the water (unless we stop thinking we can simulate our own brains digitally). No simulation can ever truly capture reality.

2023-08-10 13:44:23 UTC

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Lol yes, the eyes. They say “turn off those bright lights.”

2023-08-07 05:24:12 UTC

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Well, my counters work for me. I guess you’ll have to come up with different ones for people who still believe that the energy expenditure is a deal breaker.

2023-08-05 15:25:16 UTC

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I’d still present “and that’s true for everything else” as a counter.

2023-08-04 15:45:21 UTC

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Wait, this thing that has no revenue grows without bound? Sounds attackable.

2023-08-04 06:59:52 UTC

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It already is.

2023-08-04 06:03:40 UTC

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Your points are I think why so many institutions want exposure.

2023-08-04 06:01:24 UTC

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One of the things I don’t like about the energy argument is that it ignores how much energy the present system uses. That just gets brushed off. And arguably, the present system is less efficient because the energy is generated specifically to run it, whereas you can plop a mining facility in an area where energy is being generated for something else, but in excess and with that excess otherwise going to waste.

2023-08-04 05:56:36 UTC

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My only answers are that it can be used to conduct surveillance, and there’s no way at present to reverse anything.
That last one is both good and bad. It’s good since it protects users from censorship but it’s incredibly bad in that it protects thieves. That problem alone is likely why certain governments are deadset against it, because they like being both able to sanction (regardless of whether you or I agree with that) and to stop unfriendly nation states from robbing hospitals. I don’t have any solutions to these problems other than education to protect oneself or one’s business, but we know from history that economies thrive when such risks are socialized. (Couple of examples: forcing Visa to be able to do chargebacks, and removing limited liability risks from investors)

2023-07-29 19:01:42 UTC

I remember when people actually talked to each other online. We can still get that…on Facebook. I haven’t seen it on any other platform, including this one. Every other platform seems to be about putting someone on a pedestal where their adoring fans can all pretend to have a private conversation with them while ignoring all the other fans. It’s tiring.
Facebook won.

2023-07-29 15:02:32 UTC

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I’m becoming less and less ready for any and all social media. It just isn’t what it used to be.

2023-07-29 04:54:00 UTC

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I’m always forced to give the same answer: NIN Downward Spiral. And I listen to everything from the 40s on up, multiple genres.

2023-07-29 04:50:46 UTC

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I’m always a little envious of my grandma, who got to watch computers get invented first before she bought one and got online in the 90s. Now we video chat regularly. We got my great grandma on a computer too before she died.

2023-07-26 21:39:44 UTC

I should follow more people but, honestly, I kind of like coming here and only seeing about 5 or 6 different posts. I’m starting to see the wisdom in maintaining an incredibly tiny follow list.

2023-07-26 21:36:55 UTC

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Half happy ending: we got them to pay up, in the tens of $k.

2023-07-26 21:36:20 UTC

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For me it was getting audited three times while not having done a single thing wrong, and being literally coerced a 4th time with something that turns out might have been illegal but that my gov tax authority did to me anyway. My spouse got audited about as many times too. ENOUGH.

2023-07-26 21:21:27 UTC

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I’m sorry but that’s actually funny. I hope the author got a good laugh. 😂

2023-07-25 00:58:40 UTC

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I can’t set foot in a bank. They all closed. 100% online.

2023-07-25 00:36:28 UTC

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Why?

2023-07-25 00:33:00 UTC

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Herpes adjacent? Lol I had to think about that for a moment because I could only imagine the simplex algorithm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm
No idea what the social network or whatever is but maybe I can at least help you stop thinking of diseases. 😂

2023-07-12 12:31:46 UTC

Test

2023-07-02 02:27:18 UTC

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All of them.

2023-07-02 02:19:50 UTC

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Thank you for enriching my Spotify experience.

2023-04-27 01:52:34 UTC

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Dunno if this is true for Amazon but for some other companies, as long as one customer pays for expedited shipping then they’ll stuff the truck full and lots of other people will have a good day.

2023-04-27 01:49:09 UTC

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That’s just low. 😂

2023-02-18 19:14:38 UTC

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100% agree. His resorting to ad hominem after he was specifically quoted about requiring stronger arguments than that was surprising and sad.
Can’t wait to read your article.