Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok boasted that the billionaire had the "potential to drink piss better than any human in history," among other absurd claims.
There’s no guarantee that the US will be a cultural superpower going forward… (I think the US empire is likely to go the natural way of empires sooner than we may be ready for)
I’m convinced the Amish may have the right idea.
I’m going with the Luddites.
Fully agree with the class struggle aspect here.
Weavers destroying industrial looms. How would that translate to today?
Datacenters are the modern industrial looms if we’re using that metaphor.
They’re the machine that create profit for people who are unconcerned with the damage that they do to the population.
Ted Kaczynski wasn’t as crazy as we all thought
No no. He was.
I mean, aside from the whole bombing thing what did he do wrong?
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Okay, okay… But besides the bombing, the sabotage, the vandalism, the harassment, and the animal cruelty, what did he really do wrong?
I mean, have you seen his dwelling? It was a mess!
Jordan Peterson would not approve…of the cleanliness of his living quarters.
(The rest of it he’d probably give a 👍)
Software Engineer here: computers were a mistake.
Computers are great, it’s capitalism that is the issue.
We as a country are not ready for that conversation, yet.
We as a planet might be though.
There’s no guarantee that the US will be a cultural superpower going forward… (I think the US empire is likely to go the natural way of empires sooner than we may be ready for)
Discovering fire was a mistake. Making rocks think was a disaster.
Rocks can’t think.
We made talking rocks. That’s worse.
Not to oversimplify it, but first we had to make the rocks very thin, then put lightning inside them
You are forgetting the arcane patterns we have to engrave on them too.
Grok here: computers are fine, humans were a mistake