explicit in “State of the Art”:

It was about a week later, when I was due to go back on-planet, to Berlin, when the ship wanted to talk to me again. Things were going on as usual; the Arbitrary spent its time making detailed maps of everything within sight and without, dodging American and Soviet satellites and manufacturing and then sending down to the planet hundreds upon thousands of bugs to watch printing works and magazine stalls and libraries, to scan museums, workshops, studios and shops, to look into windows, gardens and forests, and to track buses, trains, cars, seaships and planes. Meanwhile its effectors, and those on its main satellites, probed every computer, monitored every landline, tapped every microwave link, and listened to every radio transmission on Earth.

There is enough of this shit that appeasement has no reason except making well meaning moderate centrists more comfortable, and they were never the audience. (despite their unshakable conviction they are the only audience.) dr. fatima’s video is good advice on comforting the comforted and nothing else.

i commend to you my masto post with the more detailed version, and the responses thereto, e.g.

the world we live in where the golang stdlib cryptography maintainer doesn’t know how to use ffmpeg and can’t be fucked to learn and so instead relies on slop

[lament about ill effect of AI, here’s why it’s terrible]

I use AI sparingly for

this is critihype

some of us just nail the existential risk

while it’s technically plausible that Ziz was involved in a minor oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky deady weady or two or six, she’s always been lovely to me, much of the time,

Emile Torres and me, rationalist enemies list #3 and #1. a photo to strike fear into the utility functions of rationalists everywhere

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116456408676175449

pic by my kid and from the premiere of Ghost in the Machine, an awesome documentary. I’m in it. tl;dr AI was always olde timey race science all the way down

I can’t confirm it at all, but I read somewhere that at least some of Max’s actual servers are in the UK too o_0

I’m wondering the extent to which Max is a thing. They force it onto all phones so it claims a huge userbase, but all the numbers are PR numbers.

that looks like a heaping pile of correlation, without mentioning the general downturn

the worst kind of violence, the sort against people like me

all those other deaths? those aren’t violence

we also need to care more about property

youtube comments and i’m getting the bangers again

If you are number one enemy of the nerds that are afraid of the etch-a-sketch, does that make you the most powerful etch-a-sketch?

The accounting of these companies must also be too dangerous to release or something.

At the mention of Butlerian Jihad I cringed so hard I became a quantum singularity (I got better)

writing this up for today, will be mentioning Ziz

per run

well that shows it’s aligned to the flourishing of humanity

AO3 this immediately

including Sam

jonny’s thread is sheer awesome

So MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!

a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously

yesterdays’ news just in, no we won’t