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Submitted by t on Thu, 10/03/2024 - 18:16

The Rise and Fall of the AI Apocalypse

It's not all not sunshine and roses
An AI generated text bubble that says "When the AI Colilile akes all the coffee breaks"

A little over a year ago (let's be honest, I'm lazy and it's been quite a bit more than a year), I wrote about the dangers of AI. It wasn't the danger that AI posted directly, but the danger that an unequal distribution of its utility would have on an unprepared economy. The tl;dr is that those currently with power would control the AI, the AI would replace human white-collar workers, and the rest of humanity would be consigned to the complex low-wage physical labor that our robots cannot yet do. And I predicted that this could happen within a year.

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Submitted by t on Wed, 03/15/2023 - 22:05

Slaves to Men with Machines

The coming AI dystopia nobody is talking about
Dall-E generated image of a robot face, edited with the OpenAI logo for eyes

In Frank Herbert's Dune novels, there's a historical footnote that plays in one of the underlying themes of the series. There was a time in the history of humanity, still in our future, when humanity dev thinking machines, computers with human-like minds that quickly replaced human labor in almost every sense. In Herbert's vision, this leads to a brief utopia for humanity. But it doesn't last, because very quickly "people became slaves to other men with machines".

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Submitted by t on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 02:37

Dear Satya Nadella - an Open Letter

How you're failing Microsoft - and the world - and why.
What happens when Microsoft tanks and Google buys it

Dear Satya Nadella,

Let me get straight to the point: You're a man with no vision.

Harsh, I know. But let me explain.

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Submitted by t on Thu, 11/12/2015 - 00:53

Surface Pro 4 vs Surface Pro 3 Performance Benchmark

Since nobody else seems to have done it yet
Image Src: Microsoft.com, edited at Pixlr.com

Like any uber nerd watching Microsoft's press release last month, I was really excited to hear the announcement of the Surface Pro 4. But I already own a Surface Pro 3, so it begs the question: Is it really worth upgrading?

The SP4 comes loaded with some cool new tricks, most of which you already know about:

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Submitted by t on Wed, 11/04/2015 - 23:48

Gamersion

A really bad word for being human
Skyrim!

Immersion. It's this sense of seamlessness and continuity in a video game that makes it feel more real. It's the holy grail of hardcore gamers, to enter a game and become fully engrossed in that world to the exclusion of outside influences. But even the best games aren't fully immersive. There's always a sliver of consciousness that remains aware of the fictional nature of the activity. I call this little sliver "Gamersion" and it's that sliver that I want to talk about.

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