@volts.wtf
Lewis Powell: "Letter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce", 1971. Originally intended to be secret, it eventually came out.

He proposed buying and controlling media, attacking higher education as well as other processes intended to push public opinion rightward.

Powell went on to be a Supreme Court justice.

Robert Bork in the1980's defanged antitrust enforcement, encouraging the merger and acquisition spree that continues today.

All intended to limit power of citizens.

@ianbetteridge @henryk @davidgerard

Agreed, we must accept responsibility for our decisions, AI or not.

My complaint is about people with concentrated power and private agendas that produce falsehoods for their own gain. They work carefully (too often successfully) to prevent readers from making informed choices.

For example, health-oriented information. The underlying phenomena are subtle enough that it takes a medical genius to wade through input that sounds credible but is not.

@fesshole
Would "Holy shit, she is beautiful!" Suffice?

Happily married but appreciate the view...

@henryk @ianbetteridge @davidgerard

A serious problem with AI in its current form is its appearance of credibility. Mostly right is FAR more dangerous than obviously wrong.

If "we" don't watch out, AI will (or may have already become) a powerful tool of gaslighting and disinformation.

Semi-offtopic.... I cannot explain why, but I loved Charlie the Unicorn vids years ago.

@Rainmaker1973
What impresses me is this: *WE* are learning. Recognizing the potential in all beings, and working with them within their capabilities.

I remember the Scientific American article showing bumblebees voluntarily exploring their environment, and the effect the observations had on the researchers.

Slowly and hesitantly, humans are coming around to seeing the world more fully.

Thanks to Massimo for sharing this.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick

Yes to both responses.

We can build infrastructure that could significantly reduce the ongoing damage while improving quality of life generally.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @petergleick

We just picked up several days worth of food from a grocery store during our pleasant walk to the river.

Nobody with a room temperature IQ is proposing elimination of our destructive dependency on oil oligarchs immediately.

We propose doing the research, development and work to get off our asses and move away from that addiction. Costs of decentralized energy production are falling and every such installation reduces the power of oil oligarchs.

@damonism

That font reminds me of the last time I had to deal with all that darkness...

Waay back in history, I had a hard time with DEC VT102 display readability due to the gaps between vertical pixels. Popped the cover and adjusted vertical size. Big improvement.

Oh and even in 1983, WOPR was a relic. (This from some who is so old he remembers IBM 1130, i8008, i8080, PDP-8, PDP-11...)

@foone

Arrays are a slick gateway drug.

You haven't lived until you've met a well endowed hashtable...

/s

@ai6yr
# echo 0 >/proc/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Old school