Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Thinking of being corrupted by vernacular, it seems to me that a major problem with learning-enabled neural-network based artificial intelligence is that it, like the rest of us, will get dumber by being exposed to people.

*everything

(I have been corrupted by fucking vernacular again.)

PS - If you've recently had the urge to shit all over anything within six degrees of Elon, yes, I'm talking about *you*.

The true miracle of Elon Musk is not becoming an eminently dislikeable raging asshole; anyone can do that.

It's transmuting his critics into eminently dislikeable raging assholes, too.

(Politics isn't just the mind-killer, it's also the soul-killer.)

@avatar A diplomat never says too much, nor says too little. He says precisely what he means to.

My urge to colonize Mars dwindles in proportion to my realization that there will also have to be other people there.

Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility - in the Emperor's name!

@zarpaulus

By current polling, between 40% and 60% of my idiot countrymen.

(Not being blindsided by figures like that is why I prefer to keep a weather eye on _all_ the acts in the clown show.)

@zarpaulus

(Also, venal cowardice turning out to be _bought-and-paid-for-venal-cowardice_ doesn't, y'know, actually make anything any better.)

@zarpaulus

As convenient as it would be for everyone I find despicable to be within three degrees of Vladimir Putin's checkbook, it would be a little _too_ convenient.

@zarpaulus

That would be... none of those people.

(It sure would be nice if all this venal cowardice was down to paid Russian agents, but Russia doesn't begin to have that much money.)

As it's evidently time for the ZOMG WWIII ONOZ discourse again, this is today's reminder that it is not the job of Ukraine or Ukrainians to lie down and die because y'all can't find a single gonad between the lot of you.

Once, I used to be disinclined to participate in politics because I actively disliked everyone’s ideas.

Now, I’m disinclined to participate in politics because I can’t even with everyone’s mental illness.

I do not think this is an actual improvement.

If there is a kind of eugenics I unquestionably support, it's finding the allele responsible for flagrant misuse of the word "eugenics" and having all its carriers sterilized.

@gpowerf

The appeal of a console, though, is specifically that it _isn't_ a PC (and maybe _because_ of its closed ecosystem).

For me at least, the killer advantage of my Xbox is that it doesn't subject me to either mostly-video driver hell, or whatever phone-home rootkit bullshit is this week's anti-piracy/anti-cheat silver bullet. It just works, and I never have to debug it.

(I got too old for that a good 25 years ago.)

@avatar

Dave's still here, man.