Ah yes! When humans have to convince robots that they are human, we are on a very bad road. You had me chuckling, for sure. I am a bit of a Luddite, and I'm okie dokie with that. Whatever takes down the machine is fine with me.
QE - If you got a chuckle, then Rufus succeeded. He gets lonely out there in the jungle and thinks up a lot of sarcastic stuff about the crazy world we're in. I don't think he's so much of a Luddite and he is wary fads and trends -- like men shaving their eyelashes on TikTok -- that are just plain stupid if not dangerous.
I hear Rufus is cooking up a rant on superzeroes for next week. Should be fun!
Oh I hear ya! I'm an old fashioned girl living in a made up material world. Meta can kiss my grits on the way to artificial anything. I want heartbeats, not Al Gore-Rythms. It's mighty lonely being one of the few that don't pine for politicians, and their wiley ways. Trends are always things I regret, or at least, wish I didn't know about. I want to go to sanity island, fantasy island sucks.
QE - The memory of Pet Rocks came screaming to mind as I read your comment. The world is overly complex any more, and there's no real advantage to it, at least down here at the human level. I see so many people tied into their devices, but doing nothing productive. They're not researching or navigating or reading (books). Rather they are lost in mindless games, chats with distant strangers they've never met, and taking pictures of food (weird habit that). We have reached peak banality and the pinnacle of mediocrity. If you find this sanity island--we had 15,000 to search over here--let me know.
Yet you're considered strange if you'd rather be gardening or making things. I don't have time to be bored. There is too much I'd rather be doing and not doing. I guess somebody has to be a thorn in the side of the zombie mob, pet rocks teehee....I think we have to create a sanity island, all the camels have their heads buried in the sand looking for fantasy island. I'd love to go back to cassette decks, at least. Radio far side rocks and if I wasn't part Luddite I would surely do better than a compliment to say so. Thanks for you, and Rufus 😅
A genuine compliment is the most valuable thing you could offer, and I humbly thank you for it. Cheers! I'll be sure to let Rufus know, too. He's a bit hard to get ahold of sometimes.
I know of two rather good-sized islands for sale right now, but they are unimproved (no plumbing or electricity). They are beauties, though. The one I've got my eye on is 10 miles offshore of Boreo and has it's own reef. One of these days.
I find it hard to sit still to watch a movie, much less spend hours playing games or YouBoobin'. I have a list of things I want to cook, or projects to work on, or sometimes just sitting in the shade and watching the colors change on the volcano. And if that isn't enough, Mrs. FarSide has plenty of home improvement items on her list, as well. And there's always a book to fall asleep with. I'm a half-assed Luddite, but I could go whole hog with enough prompting.
This is hilarious! Great jokes. I vaguely remember a Japanese man who married his sexbot. He took her everywhere. The guy was retired and lonely. I wonder if the sexbot changes the man's Depends now. They say that in Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
TT - I figured if anyone got the jokes it would be you. Rufus is still finding his audience, but I imagine its out there somewhere.
I remember the Japan story, and there have been others too, several involving American women marrying things like the Eiffel Tower, a Ferris wheel, and a doll collection. There's a South Korean man married a pillow in the shape of his favorite anime character, and an American man who married a mannequin. I'm sure once they merge sex dolls with robots, there'll be a whole rash of these stories.
Propaganda is used to harness any static mind longing for an Idea. Unfortunately,
“Yuval Harari believes that artificial intelligence will soon replace most humans in the workforce, and that a small cadre of global “elites” must centrally manage humanity’s transition to general “uselessness””.
Here is the propaganda being repeated ad infinitum, and thus possibly testimony to what you are describing. BUT, my concern here is that are we following the leader with out questioning that there is, or is not any leader needed?
The struggle with idle minds is that they crave a leader; so you or I can stand up with a loud voice and become that leader, and thus gain a patriotic herd to follow behind us, no?
My concern was that your comment sort of falls into acquiescence of innocent obedience. The position of no blame.
I really admire your voice, and it is a fine line between the appearance of obedience before the savagery of deceitful, obedient passivity rises beneath the unsuspecting mass murderer, to defend the entrained obeisant crowd from their ignorance.. What is the passive voice? Ignorant or indolent fear?
I am reminded of the proverb: do not go before me, I may not follow. Do not go behind me, I may not lead. Rather go beside me, so that we may work together.
I do not acquiesce, but I have soured on trying to get others to see they don't need leaders or government. Humans seem hardwired to follow something, perhaps out of laziness and desire to slough off responsibility. Add to that the fact that most people only access education insofar as it provides just enough skills to do a "job," and they abandon any interest in self-education after getting their degrees.
Barring some substantial change in human behavior and priorities, it seems that the majority of folks are satisfied to slog through life until the day they realize just what they've lost, and by them it may be too late to change course.
Bit of a sad joke about AI’s absolute inevitability here I think, disguised as humour rather than our sub conscious allowance of hypnotic acquiescence, no?
‘Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’. Some of the replies discuss how they will respond to AI as if some egocentric intellectualism will “Get Em!”
All satire is a lamentation at its root. I think of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" as case in point. A lot of folks think of AI as a thing, an entity, but it's dozens of different applications channelling and filtering humanity's collective consciousness through the internet. It's more of a function than a isolated thing that can be battled. What's worse is it is the most powerful consenssus-building tool ever devised. Soon, folks won't have original ideas. It will all be fed to them through dozens of outlets. It's the GeezerMedia on steroids. In order to fight something, you have to define it first, and that's the real trick here. Bad things often start as great ideas, and we are on a mighty rocky road with this one.
I know better than to 100% trust AI responses to my queries, but I like that when I catch it in error it doesn't get indignant or defensive like a human.
MS - Yup, when I catch an AI in a bald-faced lie, I call it out and it just goes merrily along with something like, "You're absolutely correct!" The problem is, it states facts and errors with the same emphasis, and if you don't check every detail, they'll slip all kinds of stuff past you. when they get to the point that it feels like you're talking to yourself, that's when you need to walk away.
MS - That's exactly why the label "intelligence" is so misleading. They are not self-correcting, do not update their memories with new data, and they feel no shame whatsoever. Sounds like my ex-wife, actually.
Ah yes! When humans have to convince robots that they are human, we are on a very bad road. You had me chuckling, for sure. I am a bit of a Luddite, and I'm okie dokie with that. Whatever takes down the machine is fine with me.
QE - If you got a chuckle, then Rufus succeeded. He gets lonely out there in the jungle and thinks up a lot of sarcastic stuff about the crazy world we're in. I don't think he's so much of a Luddite and he is wary fads and trends -- like men shaving their eyelashes on TikTok -- that are just plain stupid if not dangerous.
I hear Rufus is cooking up a rant on superzeroes for next week. Should be fun!
Oh I hear ya! I'm an old fashioned girl living in a made up material world. Meta can kiss my grits on the way to artificial anything. I want heartbeats, not Al Gore-Rythms. It's mighty lonely being one of the few that don't pine for politicians, and their wiley ways. Trends are always things I regret, or at least, wish I didn't know about. I want to go to sanity island, fantasy island sucks.
QE - The memory of Pet Rocks came screaming to mind as I read your comment. The world is overly complex any more, and there's no real advantage to it, at least down here at the human level. I see so many people tied into their devices, but doing nothing productive. They're not researching or navigating or reading (books). Rather they are lost in mindless games, chats with distant strangers they've never met, and taking pictures of food (weird habit that). We have reached peak banality and the pinnacle of mediocrity. If you find this sanity island--we had 15,000 to search over here--let me know.
Yet you're considered strange if you'd rather be gardening or making things. I don't have time to be bored. There is too much I'd rather be doing and not doing. I guess somebody has to be a thorn in the side of the zombie mob, pet rocks teehee....I think we have to create a sanity island, all the camels have their heads buried in the sand looking for fantasy island. I'd love to go back to cassette decks, at least. Radio far side rocks and if I wasn't part Luddite I would surely do better than a compliment to say so. Thanks for you, and Rufus 😅
A genuine compliment is the most valuable thing you could offer, and I humbly thank you for it. Cheers! I'll be sure to let Rufus know, too. He's a bit hard to get ahold of sometimes.
I know of two rather good-sized islands for sale right now, but they are unimproved (no plumbing or electricity). They are beauties, though. The one I've got my eye on is 10 miles offshore of Boreo and has it's own reef. One of these days.
I find it hard to sit still to watch a movie, much less spend hours playing games or YouBoobin'. I have a list of things I want to cook, or projects to work on, or sometimes just sitting in the shade and watching the colors change on the volcano. And if that isn't enough, Mrs. FarSide has plenty of home improvement items on her list, as well. And there's always a book to fall asleep with. I'm a half-assed Luddite, but I could go whole hog with enough prompting.
This is hilarious! Great jokes. I vaguely remember a Japanese man who married his sexbot. He took her everywhere. The guy was retired and lonely. I wonder if the sexbot changes the man's Depends now. They say that in Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
Maybe there are more sexbots than wives in Japan.
Thanks for the funny video.
TT - I figured if anyone got the jokes it would be you. Rufus is still finding his audience, but I imagine its out there somewhere.
I remember the Japan story, and there have been others too, several involving American women marrying things like the Eiffel Tower, a Ferris wheel, and a doll collection. There's a South Korean man married a pillow in the shape of his favorite anime character, and an American man who married a mannequin. I'm sure once they merge sex dolls with robots, there'll be a whole rash of these stories.
When the sexbot says, "I want alimony." We'll know AI has gone too far.
TT - Soon than we think, my friend.
Must I/we remain as worms beneath a rock?
Propaganda is used to harness any static mind longing for an Idea. Unfortunately,
“Yuval Harari believes that artificial intelligence will soon replace most humans in the workforce, and that a small cadre of global “elites” must centrally manage humanity’s transition to general “uselessness””.
Here is the propaganda being repeated ad infinitum, and thus possibly testimony to what you are describing. BUT, my concern here is that are we following the leader with out questioning that there is, or is not any leader needed?
The struggle with idle minds is that they crave a leader; so you or I can stand up with a loud voice and become that leader, and thus gain a patriotic herd to follow behind us, no?
My concern was that your comment sort of falls into acquiescence of innocent obedience. The position of no blame.
I really admire your voice, and it is a fine line between the appearance of obedience before the savagery of deceitful, obedient passivity rises beneath the unsuspecting mass murderer, to defend the entrained obeisant crowd from their ignorance.. What is the passive voice? Ignorant or indolent fear?
I am reminded of the proverb: do not go before me, I may not follow. Do not go behind me, I may not lead. Rather go beside me, so that we may work together.
I do not acquiesce, but I have soured on trying to get others to see they don't need leaders or government. Humans seem hardwired to follow something, perhaps out of laziness and desire to slough off responsibility. Add to that the fact that most people only access education insofar as it provides just enough skills to do a "job," and they abandon any interest in self-education after getting their degrees.
Barring some substantial change in human behavior and priorities, it seems that the majority of folks are satisfied to slog through life until the day they realize just what they've lost, and by them it may be too late to change course.
Bit of a sad joke about AI’s absolute inevitability here I think, disguised as humour rather than our sub conscious allowance of hypnotic acquiescence, no?
‘Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’. Some of the replies discuss how they will respond to AI as if some egocentric intellectualism will “Get Em!”
All satire is a lamentation at its root. I think of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" as case in point. A lot of folks think of AI as a thing, an entity, but it's dozens of different applications channelling and filtering humanity's collective consciousness through the internet. It's more of a function than a isolated thing that can be battled. What's worse is it is the most powerful consenssus-building tool ever devised. Soon, folks won't have original ideas. It will all be fed to them through dozens of outlets. It's the GeezerMedia on steroids. In order to fight something, you have to define it first, and that's the real trick here. Bad things often start as great ideas, and we are on a mighty rocky road with this one.
I know better than to 100% trust AI responses to my queries, but I like that when I catch it in error it doesn't get indignant or defensive like a human.
MS - Yup, when I catch an AI in a bald-faced lie, I call it out and it just goes merrily along with something like, "You're absolutely correct!" The problem is, it states facts and errors with the same emphasis, and if you don't check every detail, they'll slip all kinds of stuff past you. when they get to the point that it feels like you're talking to yourself, that's when you need to walk away.
Lol, YES! And you get no assurance it won't make the same damned mistake again with the next customer.
MS - That's exactly why the label "intelligence" is so misleading. They are not self-correcting, do not update their memories with new data, and they feel no shame whatsoever. Sounds like my ex-wife, actually.