If you follow me on Bluesky, you'll need to follow again, because I committed the crime of lese-ignominie and made fun of Why and my account is locked until Sunday 26 April. Note that it's now Wednesday 29th.
URL is the same, DID is different. New one lives on Blacksky, or the myatproto bit.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.co.uk
https://blacksky.community/profile/davidgerard.co.uk
not even making eight eights
The six fingers is on the pic of the teacher in the Spiegel article.
explicit in "State of the Art":
It was about a week later, when I was due to go back on-planet, to Berlin, when the ship wanted to talk to me again. Things were going on as usual; the Arbitrary spent its time making detailed maps of everything within sight and without, dodging American and Soviet satellites and manufacturing and then sending down to the planet hundreds upon thousands of bugs to watch printing works and magazine stalls and libraries, to scan museums, workshops, studios and shops, to look into windows, gardens and forests, and to track buses, trains, cars, seaships and planes. Meanwhile its effectors, and those on its main satellites, probed every computer, monitored every landline, tapped every microwave link, and listened to every radio transmission on Earth.
There is enough of this shit that appeasement has no reason except making well meaning moderate centrists more comfortable, and they were never the audience. (despite their unshakable conviction they are the only audience.) dr. fatima's video is good advice on comforting the comforted and nothing else.
i commend to you my masto post with the more detailed version, and the responses thereto, e.g.
the world we live in where the golang stdlib cryptography maintainer doesn't know how to use ffmpeg and can't be fucked to learn and so instead relies on slop
[lament about ill effect of AI, here's why it's terrible]
I use AI sparingly for
this is critihype
some of us just nail the existential risk
really because they come from the same Californian Ideology roots
while it's technically plausible that Ziz was involved in a minor oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky deady weady or two or six, she's always been lovely to me, much of the time,
Emile Torres and me, rationalist enemies list #3 and #1. a photo to strike fear into the utility functions of rationalists everywhere
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116456408676175449
pic by my kid and from the premiere of Ghost in the Machine, an awesome documentary. I'm in it. tl;dr AI was always olde timey race science all the way down
I can't confirm it at all, but I read somewhere that at least some of Max's actual servers are in the UK too o_0
dammit why didn't I think of this a decade ago