I’ve heard so many stories like mine of people like me getting permanently banned from Reddit. It’s a real bummer bc I truly enjoyed being able to find a wide range of discourse. I’m surprised/disappointed I haven’t figured out a long term workaround yet.
Well said. It’s almost as bad as YouTube. At least twitter sort of has nesting (wherein yt doesn’t), but it’s still just about impossible to comprehend when 3 or more people are conversing.
Recently within the past few months, I remember seeing a viral clip of one of the human stick-figure type robots in a demonstration at some kind of mall (probably in China but I can’t recall). The robot started malfunctioning, and the handlers had to physically restrain the robot so that it wouldn’t malfunction erratically around the audience or people simply walking by.
Most of the comments about the video were laughing at how silly and stupid the robot was behaving, but all I could think was: If that thing was just a little bit stronger, the human handler wouldn’t have been able to physically restrain it. That robot would immediately become a real physical danger to literally everyone in the vicinity.
Replace the buzzword “AI” with “computing advancement” or (more broadly) “technological advancement.”
I think that makes it easier to see how the analogies in the comic strip are meaningless to the basic pattern that our technology has been advancing and will continue advancing, unless or until societal collapse (and maybe not even then if, by then, technology has reached the point where it can start creating its own advancements).
I see HP fun or mockery. I upvote HP fun or mockery.
Am I missing a punchline at the end? Or does it simply end with additional frustration?
I finally know the proper spelling for my sinister scheming noises
This measured response feels much healthier than my/our kneejerk reactions. Any prosecutor is going to seek information that would help their case, and they expect the Court to simply say No when it isn’t compatible with the law. It sucks that this Trump admin and retributive DOJ have such an anti-American track record that our initial instinct is that every move is another attempt to suppress criticism (which it likely would be if they had any scintilla of competence to go with their thirst for fascism).
Suppression of anything critical of Trump and the other snowflakes is the goal. Oppression is their favorite tool, but they’ll settle for intimidation which still ends up being effective even when our institutions uphold the Constitution.
I finally left just a couple weeks ago. Seeing and hearing about entire accounts being banned after simple peaceful criticism of political leaders showed me that they use poorly programmed algorithms to issue bans and also confirm them on appeals without any reasonable human elements. It also seemed like some accounts would get perma-banned by simply complaining about this process.
The best part of the process is when you get a new job but before you have to actually start it ☺️
This ignores the pattern of how we have been integrating technology into how we think, as it gets physically closer and closer to our brains. The AI algorithms already have massive control over how we think and decisions we make. Eventually we incorporate it into our brains, and we will no longer be able to differentiate between a choice that was made by the technology or by the human elements of our brain.
The good news is that this increases the likelihood that we can cohabitate with AI. The bad news is that humanity will become indistinguishable and likely a decreasing factor in the direction that our world and society move toward.
Thanks for the tip! So if I typically use Safari on my phone, then there’s a decent chance that using chrome on my phone will be effective? This would be surprising to me because I’ve always thought they simply use the IP address to connect accounts…