I took the plunge and ditched my windows PC and google phone, for an iPhone and MacBook combo. It took a few minutes to disable all A.I. features and set privacy settings to 11, and I feel so much better.

Imagine telling a child that they must worship Immortan Joe because the richest idiots on earth thought autocorrect was alive and their friend

SuperIntelligent AI = Prosperity Gospel for people who don’t believe in God.

I never thought Skynet would have the personality of an edgy teenage memelord. Reality is fucking broken.

I was the same when I got the reissue of Bitches Brew. I wanted to take that thing to parties and pass it around. Makes me wonder whether urges like that are why I don’t get invited to parties.

With bitter irony, blocking someone who insulted him is probably the only bit of critical thinking he has done this year, maybe ever.

“The only thing that grows forever is cancer.” Brutal. Love it.

I guess I could do this, as long as it was a character who didn’t have a bad end or do anything immoral or dreadful in the story. Now I just have to find such a character in my work …

Not gonna lie, it kind of rankles that the finest work of literature since Joyce’s Ulysses was written by an American named Jeff.

Advice columnists, despite appearances to the contrary, are sentient.

Or they changed the model weights to amplify certain views and downplay others. It’s pretty simple.

The proper word for Kurzweil is pillock, but sadly it’s not commonly known in the US. It would make the whole discourse so much easier if we could just say “here’s an interview with the noted pillock Ray Kurzweil”, or “Sam Altman, chief pillock of OpenAI, said this on twitter …”

There’s fuck-all on the front end, so they’re clearly just buying the people in the hope of getting some of their own fuck-all. Once you reach a critical mass of fuck-all, SoftBank reaches for the infinite chequebook.