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  • gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
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    2 days ago

    Obviously I don’t want the human race to go extinct, but if there was a choice of inevitable outcomes where we do, building an inimmical superintelligence at least implies agency, not carelessness.

    Anyway Big Yud’s fantasy of a precisely timed diamondoid-bacteria delivered killshot to every human being at the same time might sound terrible, but from a sensory perspective of the victims, it’s basically suffering-free. You go about your day, BAM nothingness. Maybe there’s a difference in timing so you see your partner keel over a split second before you die - again, you might not even realize what is happening.

    I am not sure from where this idea of a global instantaneous simultanous genocide comes from, maybe a tit-for-tat escalation to counter every argument against shutting down the robot god, but from a storytelling perspective it’s pretty useless. There’s no drama where the survivors lament their loss or brood over what might have been. It’s just a plug being pulled on the simulation.

    (weirdly it’s also the logical outcome of asking a computer to “end human suffering”, a bit like the Robobrain logic in Fallout 4’s Automatron expansion, but I doubt it’s meant that way)

  • gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
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    3 days ago

    Thought inspired by some git on the red site, basically their premise was that birthrates are declining because we no longer have a society with a 2-parent nuclear family with one “breadwinner”.

    Here’s my counterproposal to the implied idea we need to implement The Handmaid’s Tale:

    Ban contraception and abortion but if you get pregnant, there is no stigma to giving birth out of wedlock. The delivery is safe and paid for, and should you wish, the child will be reared in state-funded orphanages. These institutions will be receive more than adequate funding. Their charges will be given preferred entry to the best schools and universities, as well as preferential treatment when it comes to future employment. It will be illegal to discriminate against anyone so raised.

    Surely this will raise the birthrate, right?

  • gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Accenture: you’re promoted or fired on using the AIEnglish
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    8 days ago

    it’s funny b/c management consultants live for applying the same cookie-cutter methods for different businesses - in a way they’re the OG LLMs

    but the real business is sales - you need to get your expensive consultants embedded into an org so they can start invoicing. And for sales focussing on “AI” is perfect, b/c the companies big enough to be able to pay are also the ones run by the same sort of MBAs who are pushing “AI” everywhere else