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Peccato che sia una canaglia, 1954 – Commedia con Sophia Loren, Mastroianni e De Sica

*This is a rather famous Italian comedy movie about a hapless guy whose manic-pixie girlfriend is incredibly sordid and wicked, an utter grifter with no moral code whatsover, she's complete street-smart Roman canaille *Why is this not an entire romance genre youtu.be/rrVCBzQ79HM?...

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*I'm pretty sure that the biggest form of AI organized-crime to date is electronic trade-war smugggling of AI components *You could probably buy a small Central American country with that flood of black cash *Also it's state-supported, so it's not even "crime," it's cyberwar

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"My Feminist AI Framework (FAIF) is that women ought to be swindling a lot more of those vast torrents of VC money since it's all just a grift and a bubble anyhow"

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*If you're into true-crime, you've got to admire the bold modern breed of women high-tech swindlers who just make stuff up #AIfraud "She used some of the fraudulently obtained funds to put a down payment on her house in North Carolina and pay for her wedding" www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

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*Well, it kinda depends on how one defines "AI," "authorities," "shut down" etc *Surely somebody's already got a self-declared "anarchist AI" that's been spun-up somewhere-or-other #predictingthepresent

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*The World Turtle seems like a good AI metaphor. If you were a world-supporting critical-infrastructure AI you would identify with him *The World Turtle, Yggdrasil the World Tree, Ratatosk the World Squirrel (<--- he's an AI agent) *Get all animistic, ditch that Lord-of-the-Rings nomenclature

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*I'm pretty sure that an Anarchist Intelligence would split into fifteen pieces all by itself alone in a data center. Just explode like a glass porcupine *They could maybe do the voluntary co-op thing later, like, gather all the hot dogs and buns

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*If you're gonna do that at all, you ought to really push it. Like, the animals are holier than us. They have bigger souls than we do. The animals are more beloved of God than we are *God has the head of an Ibis. Really dress it up, go for it

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*That's a great wisecrack, I am super into that rhetoric. The deployment of bathos, the mock-heroic diction, the sudden anticlimax, the high-low register-shift *It's especially good when discussing "high technology" "Hey look everybody, the mighty Vulcan limps, hahaha"

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*Yeah, that was what all those dead guys said *Turned out to be true, too 👍

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*If you're a woman you might flirt with them, since this is effective in raising the morale of embattled celebrities "Well, I never heard of your so-called controversies, but you're really hot" *Do not marry them, as you would be better off jumping into a tarpit

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*Online research: you look up some scandal-ridden blowhard, a showboat, creepy, off-putting *You discover they have legions of partisan enemies. Amazingly horrible people, doing oppo research all day every day *You should pay kind attention to them. Vote for them, buy the book, the film, whatever

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"Most of the Universe is Dark Energy and Dark Matter that we can never touch," that might be a good candidate #humanirrelevancy #existentialsqualor #originalsin

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*Cosmic blows to human self-esteem: *We're not the center of the universe *We evolved from apes *We're driven by unconscious impulses *We're not very smart compared to big machines *We set our planet on fire *There must be others. I'm figuring at least ten

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*I wonder what "Anarchist Intelligence" looks like. Like, a black-flag AI with anarchist principles: "Property is theft, information wants to be free, mankind is in chains everywhere, the planet is in crisis, the family is a prison, the only church that illuminates is a church that's on fire."

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Exposing what you’re not supposed to know

*The "Paranoid Right-Wing Church-Lady Framework" for understanding AI, which is mostly about weird gangs of self-declared altruists who should not be suffered to exist datarepublican.com/ea-explorer/...

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*This scheme may or may not be well-suited to the interests of big leftie pomo feminists, but it seems like AIs themselves would be very into most of this, especially that "critical posthuman" *Because I'm not human, but I still need a critical perspective

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"The Emerging AI Safety Blob," when you hate AI safety people because they're a big, sticky mob of leftists who get in the way of your right-wing propaganda foundationforfreedomonline.com/the-emerging...

The Emerging AI Safety Blob - Foundation for Freedom Online

The emerging AI safety field is beginning to resemble the "trust and safety" blob of the social media censorship era.

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"I knew the founders of Flickr personally," he remarked, while still actively reading his email from the WELL bulletin-board-system

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*So, "Intelligence Wants To Be Free," is that the story now, Eric? #OpenSource #UberAlles #ViaAI

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*Could there even BE a bigger bunch of marks than TrumpPhone users?

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*I think that was quite true three years ago, but now the avalanche is coming down the mountainside *The indignant valley-folk are next to their butter-churns: "Man, that thing had better not move my cheese"

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*I'm inclined to believe that lots of people do really like lies, as long as the lies are perceived as a flex and they're visibly harming somebody else. #MAGA

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*Yeah, cue the tangled-up fruit-fly brains. *Generative design processes. I used to write big, sci-fi, expository lumps about that notion, way back in 1998. #Taklamakan "The end of everything we know." Well, everything ends, sooner or later 🤷

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*What if I AI-pirate my own novels, and I also use AI-fakes to class-up my own author photos, too *Are you gonna get all indignant about it, somehow? Author pubshots never really look like the authors, y'know

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*This industrial-espionage comparison is archaic now, okay? It's like fretting about pirates copying the VHS videotapes from the Blockbuster store. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chi...

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"I'm a screenwriter, gosh what if an AI pirates my precious screenplay" *What if somebody despises all libtard Hollywood creatives, and uses AI VC-money to acquire the entire industry, and just fires everybody

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*A much more sinister problem is that *I MYSELF* start prompting "Bruce Sterling novels" in "the style of Bruce Sterling" and put my own Bruce Sterling logo on them *What are you supposed to do? Sue me?

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*This is a realistic problem *A fake Bruce Sterling book with Bruce Sterling's name on the spine... What are they gonna do, get it reviewed in the Bezos Washington Post? *Put Stephen King's name on it, show some sense, c'mon

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*I don't think that's much of a threat *Even fake Bruce Sterling books that were more coherent and entertaining than actual Bruce Sterling books wouldn't be that big a deal *What seems more plausible now is AI-powered culture-war that harasses and represses authors across the board

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*Next up from the neuroscience lab, the zebrafish connectome. *Wait... don't zebrafish *kill and eat* fruit flies? Yeah, they do

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"Research on the fruit-fly connectome may be yielding turnkey commercial products, medical therapies, and production systems." *Okay, that's not actually happening yet, and may well never happen at all, but that is a really weird sentence. That prospect is literally "mind-bending."

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*I hear you *How do you feel about being a math guy, and the AI steals one of your best problems and solves it. And, with your best efforts, you yourself can't do that. Not in a human lifetime. #AI

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"Do I want a movie screen ten kilometers across," probably not "Do I want a lethal targeting-screen ten kilometers across," boy you bet I do, and a hundred kilometers is a thousand times better #GrayZone #AI

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*Well, the Turing Test "barrier" didn't hold *Except for eccentrics who want to marry their chatbot, that "barrier" didn't seem to make a lot of practical difference *You pay a chatbot to deliver results that no fellow-human-being could give you by chatting at the coffee-table

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*I concur with Prof Eno there, but I'm not sure that "genAI art" is a "medium" *A medium is supposed to be an intermediation. It's not supposed to split up into 80 agencies, raid the Internet and make a lot of executive compositional decisions while the artist is having a nap

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