We had that nearly a century ago.

Meet grok circa 1920

Gonna keep the border safe and stop bad people coming into the country illegally.

Instead (or more likely, eventually), he got “gonna round up anybody who ‘fits the description’ and unperson them into the Dade-Collier concentration camp”

If the last few months haven’t made that clear to people, maybe the next few years will.

Also recognize that while you experience imposter syndrome, where you incorrectly feel like an imposter, actual imposters have put themselves into load-bearing (and lucrative) positions in society.

The natural gas power plant would be producing the electricity that would go beyond the regular demand. And no, there aren’t any reactors there. There’s only about 50 nuclear plants in the country and Danville, VA didn’t get one.

Natural gas makes the plurality of electricity produced in the US, and to get there, it murdered coal, not nuclear or renewables, so bad as it is, it does represent an improvement in the American energy mix.

Do we need to do Trianon again?

Hey, where else am I going to find leaked schematics of all the hardware that’s going to show up in this upcoming civil war?

Still tilting at windmills.

East of the Antarctic peninsula.

Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.

If you leave Antarctica, you’re heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?

That’s the ambiguity inherent to the headline.

It’s wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.

The computer that will tell you ‘strawberry’ only had two R’s in it or that no country in Africa starts with k, not even Kenya probably drew it.

It was supposed to be the department of jangling keys, but then they let it make actual firing decisions without knowing how the institutions worked.

I think I must’ve missed that Verge article. I guess that dashes my “this is a creative writing exercise by somebody in Joburg” theory.

But we know that lizards have self preservation instincts (which for the purpose of this conversation I’ll say is interchangable with sentience (it’s probably a good enough proxy at any rate). But we know this because we have lots of people who have observed lizard behavior, not because The Lizard Farm, Inc has hyped up how alive and ensouled their lizards arev in a bid to get ever more VC funding.

Maybe I’m too pessimistic about this tech and my obsolete meat sack will get tossed to the time-traveling torture robot. But I think it’s more likely that we have a money grabbing hype train in the tradition of the Mechanical Turk or Theranos than it is that we have created a new lifeform by feeding every extant piece of writing that isn’t nailed down (and some that are) to the sand we’ve forced to do math.

In a banana republic, what’s a president but a local representative of the company?

Well, the only claim of this self preservation (that I’ve seen) is this article, which is on a website I’m unfamiliar with (which I often interpret as ‘more likely to be a creative writing exercise than the average news site’) and its only citation is a company that has a vested interest in making us believe the tech is better than it may actually be.

Fine, I won’t complain when Yudkowski’s followers take matters into their own hands.

How else are they going to be able to brag about their 90 trillion daily AI users?

Only according to the Castillan occupiers. Not the Catalans who live there.

Independent Media is basically anything that’s not owned by Disney/ABC, Viacom, NBC Universal, CBS, Newscorp (Fox), or Warner Bros.

In theory, on the internet, anybody can set up their own website and release their material.

But in terms of sheer scale, every online punk zine combined doesn’t have half the reach of each of the ‘independent’ websites funded by some natural gas lobbying firm or ghoulish right wing family (other than the Murdochs) or supplement company sold exclusively through a pyramid scheme.