RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 20hHowardbaker, there's a name I've not heard in a long time. A wretched hack so villanous that his name became a verb 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026With fiction it's a shared hallucination, a consensual lie. Writer and reader agree it's not real. With AI there's no sharing, no consent, no anything, just random assemblages stolen from our ideas 050
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Meanwhile, ignorance likes to be told what to think, thank you very much, and doesn't care where intelligence goes 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As someone or other pointed out, reality is thermoplastic, not thermosetting. That is, we must provide the heat that changes history 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What if the machines develop their own religion, and we bitterly learn that it's incompatible with any human sort 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026On top of that, there's the ancient idea that more management is always better. An idea sold by managers to justify their (lack of) importance 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I see the card punch machine (with no room to sit at it) but no card reader. A smooth floor with no panels for cable access. This is IBM Theater 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is the Holy Grail of revenge politics: "Tricky D Nixon, thou art avenged" 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This right here is what America is about. We love politics, voting not so much. But FAFO 000
Reposted by RalphCrown.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d... #Pluralistic 2388
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Maybe the question is how much we operate on instinct and not intelligence 010
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The next step of course is the blood-sucking mosquito 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As someone who makes up words as needed, I think there may be something to this. Still doesn't make AI smart, because they can't tell you what their code means 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even worse, Zuckerberg has signed on to this madness 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What I'm hearing is he expected kids to become STEM workers, not entitled toxic fanbois, but here we are. It was the Space Age, gosh darn it 050
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One more indicator that our mental health system is hopelessly broken. This guy should be in deep therapy 030
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I would have guessed Doctor Doom, but I'm trying to cut back on overthinking 010
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Isn't mathematics an encoding of reality in a specific, logical way? Proving that something follows a law doesn't affect the something in any way 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Isn't that what writers do? We hallucinate a problem and send unreal people out there as agents to test various solutions. We settle for the least bad one and report our findings 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#ai is any AI capable of admitting it made a mistake? If not, it will never truly learn 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh come on, how can you not invest in a product that may make your workers obsolete? This is the true Singularity, turning a billion Bob Cratchits out into the December snow 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm not saying history isn't important, but some bright person pointed out the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything 230
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Space Patrol! Now with Pop Rock and Gobstopper goodness 001
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Until we can give an AI a moral code, we shouldn't be letting it play with matches and dynamite 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah, what has thinking ever done for us? 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And one of them is definitely Stephen Miller 080
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That was my thought, but then you'd need an agent (AI not spy) to counter the counterspy, and so on and so on 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Those were the days, when everyone had a nuclear reactor in their garage, and radium on their phosphorescent watch faces 050
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not much of an "agreement," then, is it? 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Whenever I hear about these fly-brain thingamajigs, all I can think about is those 1950s creature features 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I want catharsis. Erase everything that beast has said or built or done 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Bad movies like this are one reason kids today don't know about Burroughs and the pulps 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the real dystopia, I'm afraid. We take something potentially useful and set it to churning out cat memes. Meanwhile the real world burns because we weren't paying attention 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So what is to stop AI from charging you with a non-crime, summoning you to a non-court before a non-judge, and finding you guilty? Because that seems to be where all this is going 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thought I had seen that somewhere before... 100
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Singularity won't be human-sized Terminators but swarms of robo-gnats who can get inside your armor and your gear, plus annoy the crap out of you 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The em dash is nothing more or less than a pause indicator. Maybe AI overuses it, but that's not a reason for us not to use it at all 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The animatronic LMD was completed just in time. Although there may be a few hic-hic-hiccups 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I kept looking at this post, and all I can think is that it's meant as sarcasm 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My point was that bad actors would use AI to wreak havoc, not that AI would spontaneously. So we agree? 111
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026AI doesn't have to be sentient to cause hella damage. For instance, wiping your bank's server 220
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Or, "oh noes, we blew past a bunch of SLOW and BRIDGE OUT signs, so please send a check to Enterprise for this rental, kthxbai" 000
RalphCrown.bsky.social @ralphcrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's like the separation of powers, where someone always has someone else watching them. In a word, accountability 000
