I’m no lawyer, I don’t even play one on TV, so upfront apologies if I’m hanging my ass out.

That said, it sounds to me like Doctorow might have a point here. Suppose Universal et al. gets a precedent-setting ruling and slays OpenAI. LOL, LMAO even, but then what? What’s to keep the current entertainment cartels from making deals with Microsoft or the husks of the AI companies to rev up their own (now) fully legal and licensed bullshit engines? The only winning legal play is Giant Asteroid.

It’s like young-earth creationists who believe that dinosaur bones were installed as-is at the beginning of time time in order to test us, so their existence proves nothing about geology or evolution.

Really appreciate you and Amy! o7

mods, can we please have a rule so that only people who are shitting can post here. thanks in advance xoxo

The Rule of 2

Fuck me…I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Effective Altruism, Dude. At least it’s an ethos!

What killed lurking before posting, and can we blame WOKE? (just kidding!)

I do wonder if seamless federation can be too seamless, since it clearly makes it easier for people to get a bit lost and wander into niche forums unintentionally.

oh god. these people are exhausting.

I’ve been appreciating the term “high-control group” as an alternative, with reference to the BITE [1] model of thought control. People trapped in the group housing situation easily check all of those boxes.

[1] https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model-pdf-download/ (note: Steven Hassan has done good work, but can be a little too profit-seeking himself imho)

I’d bet five dollars that he brought them snakes out for everyone to pet and it was super awkward for a bit, but maybe I’m just unfairly prejudiced against snake guys.

The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Goon

Edit: I thought to myself, “deborah’s post would be a great fanfic prompt! SecUnit decides to look up the ol family history, and BOOM, it exposes itself to these TESCREAL characters. It would be appalled!”

Throwing caution to the wind, I went to look up Murderbot on AO3 and now I’m scheduled to get my No Regerts tattoo inked-over next week. It’s still a great idea, though!

“extremely large New Guinea.”

It’s just got big bones

1000 Years Thought Leader Jail

A masterpiece, no notes.

Also, I read this in SecUnit’s voice.

If you really wanna just throw some fucking spaghetti at the wall, YOU CAN DO THAT WITHOUT AI.

This is coming from someone who hates google, but if this person’s entire family had died, I would put a LOT of that blame on them before google.

That would really put the “uh oh” in your spaghettios

The Good Place is a perfect model for this. For the price of a single simulated clam chowder fountain, you can torture hundreds of souls in parallel!

New Zealand has entered the chat

Contovicsy isn’t a river in Ukraine.

I hope you had bamboozle insurance

accept no substitutes!

Off topic:

Went to Bonnaroo this weekend and didn’t have to think about weird racist nerds trying to ruin everything for four whole days.

It was rad af and full of the kind of positive human interaction these people want to edit out of existence. Highly recommend.