Mastodawn

Every nation should treat billionaires like a natural resource and mine them of their riches until exhausted, just like a nice thick seam of coal or a reservoir of oil, then make the spoils available to the nation's citizens. If they crop up again, mine them again.

Mark Hughes 2h ago

Selzero 6h ago

You guys don't get it. It's 4D chess. Art of the deal. Genius move. First you massively enrich the enemy, lulling them into comfort, and a false sense of security, then you give them complete control over trade avenues... Wait the genius move is coming....

I like the metaphor of #LLMs as an addictive kind of asbestos, but with greater reach in terms of harms - because the harms can be tailored and directed by the manufacturer, for every individual in real time.

Did you know that the first health concerns were being raised about asbestos in 1907, yet we were still legally putting it into UK buildings until 1999.

Thank goodness asbestos wasn't anything like as harmful as so called AI.

That's why I speak about this.

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Mark Hughes 3h ago

happyborg 3h ago

I have enough rabbit holes thank you very much...

.. oh wait!

Mark Hughes 3h ago

Talking of #cats, if Blowfelt (or Dr Evil) had had a fluffy #dog there would have been no evil villain, no plot.

Mark Hughes 3h ago

~Tijl Oct 26

Imagine _every_ item in _every_ shop with a price tag that says "Contact sales for pricing"...

This used to only happen in the business world - but technology is now bringing this to the consumer world at an alarming pace. Negotiating at the market stand about who gets the 'better deal' (based on how much in a hurry you are) is being replaced by automated consumer exploitation algorithms.

We need laws to enforce market transparency and new 'counter-technology' to level the playing field.

Mark Hughes 3h ago

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codo Mar 17

@Gina Government should simply stop creating iOS and Android apps and only create PWAs. Additionally, make a list of devices/OS combinations that do not undermine Dutch sovereignty. And, like @bert_hubert deploy, deploy, deploy. And cancel the slm-mga aka slm-maga

Mark Hughes 3h ago

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Daniel Durrans 1d ago

@hedders @neil I have always considered my computers to be more like cats. They never do my bidding and will often do the exact opposite of what I want before vomiting everywhere. But at least they are independent.

Mark Hughes 5h ago

Wordmark 15h ago

#davidbohm #consciousness #philosophy #competition is a #mistake

Mark Hughes 5h ago

Neil Brown 1d ago

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.