Mastodawn

> "If you stop using some skill, mental or physical, you lose it and its benefits. We’ve already seen signs of this with heavy users of AI … So I’m going to suggest that overreliance on AI is bad for you — which suggests a corollary: Whatever is happening to normal people as a result of AI overreliance has already happened to the ultra-wealthy."

IOW? Andreessen is AI-pilled. He's lost the ability to introspect because he's outsourced that, ALONG WITH HIS AGENCY, to an AI Agent.

[fin]

Talin 6d ago

The only thing that oligarchs fear more than rogue killer robots is empowered workers.

Talin Feb 20

"Peter Thiel is cooooming...to town!
He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows when you've been fucking,
So be silent for fuck's sake!"

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Talin Feb 7

> The founding of the United Federation of Planets in 2161 remains one of the most intensely debated events in interspecies political history. That Homo sapiens—a species whose recorded history is marked by genocide, imperial conquest, caste hierarchy, and recurring authoritarian collapse—emerged as the principal architects and diplomatic anchor of an egalitarian interstellar polity presents a genuine paradox.

Talin Feb 7

From Ashes To Federation: Some "non-fiction fan fiction" that I produced using AI: https://gist.github.com/viridia/caf8c3688465fab38d155f91f70f72dd

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Talin Feb 2

Dear chatgpt: generate an image of a superhero whose appearance and powers are so artistically stylized that he awes his opponents into submission

Talin Jan 26

Ana Marie Cox Jan 25

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @[email protected])

Talin Jan 23

From Perry Rhodan #3 - The Radiant Dome (1961):

"When a worldwide union creates a special secret defense organization, the headquarters of such a group must be located in a central position within easy reach of all concerned nations."

"That is why the IIA, the International Intelligence Agency, had chosen the island of **Greenland** as a geographically favorable spot. The gigantic center of the NATO Defense had been built deep under the ground."

Hmmmm....

Talin Jan 17

Finally weaned myself off of Microsoft Edge! I gave up Chrome ages ago because Edge seemed the lesser evil; Tried firefox multiple times over the years but never much liked it.

Lately I have switched to Vivaldi and I'm loving it!

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Talin Jan 10

@pluralistic I was paraphrasing your argument to a friend, a software engineer at Apple, about Canada repealing their flavor of the DMCA, and his response was "OK, but do you really think it's worth it?" In repealing such laws, he believed something valuable would be lost - innovation, quantity and quality of available media content, etc., etc. I immediately thought of Fukuyama - how the narrow interest of the tech companies had been morphed into a universal truth about consumer benefit.