RE: https://mas.to/@gleick/116602227183248893

Next time students ask me for an example of #simulacrum, I will point to this.

#Baudrillard

Tired: Turing test to determine if the thing on the other end of the communication line is sentient and/or human.

Wired: test if an "AI" LLM is sentient by seeing if it can correctly identify whether the other end of the communication line is Sam Altman, or an LLM simulacrum of Sam Altman.

(Yes, most humans would also fail this test.)

#AI #LLM #TuringTest #AltmanTest #SamAltman #simulacrum #NotHuman

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/

#HackerNews #Simulacrum #KnowledgeWork #TechTrends #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation

1hr 29min
"How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult"
#TheElephantGraveyard
Aug 18, 2025
#REWIND
#comedy #comedyjonestown #joerogan #comedyczar #cult #culty #austin #tx #simulacrum #Techbros #Oligarchs #Zuck #Musk #Thiel #billionaires #x #twitter #shitter #antireality #fuckzuck #elonmusk #peterthiel #palantir #hyperreality #migration #HeavensGate #MarshallApplewhite #ComedyMothership #sui #bunkers #bunkerboys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvRS3NwIlQ

There's a #mechanicalkeyboard tagged at USD 3,600-8,090 now. Don't get too excited if that alone makes you want to have one. It's sold out and the waitlist is long.

To quote from the product page:

"Nothing about this makes any sense. It is over the top. Needlessly lavish. Exuberantly irrational. And that is the point. If you're looking for a #keyboard to solve only an earthly practical need, the <c̶e̶n̶s̶o̶r̶e̶d̶> is admittedly maybe not for you."

They should've called it the "#Simulacrum" instead.

AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/22/ai-slop-startup-to-flood-the-internet-with-thousands-of-ai-slop-podcasts-calls-critics-of-ai-slop-luddites/

A Treviri nasce SIMULACRUM – Arte & Fede. Il mio cammino: un ponte tra Calabria e Germania nel segno dell’arte sacra.

#Simulacrum #GiuseppeFata #ArteSacra #Treviri #Calabria #Spiritualità #Cultura #ArteContemporanea " https://www.ilmitte.com/2025/07/a-treviri-nasce-simulacrum-arte-fede-il-mio-cammino/