@glyph I keep coming back to the "AI is fascist" part in my mind. Hypothetically you could make an AI that is not fascist. You're not going to get there by taking the AI of today and squeezing it until you've wrung all the fascism out. You'd need to start from scratch and proceed methodically under a good ethical framework.

we saw the most mediocre minds of our generation destroyed by slopbots, sleep-deprived hysterical, dragging themselves through the API streets at 1am looking for a Claude fix

@IntrepidVector @sidd_harth0_5h4h in this reading the goombas are toadstools who don't submit to rule and are caricatured unflatteringly in comparison to the "civilized" ones

@IntrepidVector @sidd_harth0_5h4h since we're talking Mario lore, I'm really fond of the idea that Peach is a colonizer monarch ruling over the indigenous Toadstool people and Bowser leads a multiethnic resistance movement. This places Mario as an "adventurer" in the historical sense, hiring himself out to colonial administration in service of white supremacy