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The Singularity Will Not Be Televised



When I don't get something useful with search terms, I often try to ask AI like ChatGPT:

> One famous case that somewhat aligns with this is the Société Générale trading scandal involving Jérôme Kerviel. Kerviel, a former trader at Société Générale, used his knowledge of the bank's systems to make unauthorized trades worth billions of euros, though it was more complex than just modifying a VB script in Excel.


It's interesting because when I do anything like that I don't look at the language information in the AI response.

Yours is a good example. All I'm looking for is the key names that would enable me to actually get the real information without AI repackaging, which I assume to be flawed.


I agree with you on that. In ChatGPT's answer, for me only names and keywords are relevant, which I can then use to start another search, and I ignore the rest of the “noise”. I was also more trying to show with my post that I occasionally use A.I. when I can only vaguely remember something and thus am not even sure what the right search terms for a classic web search would be. Like humans, ChatGPT is often able to extract the right information from imprecise, anecdotal messages and then provide suitable answers that I can then use for my further search.


> Who will ever look up a song and favourite it on Spotify if there are no humans behind it?

"Obscurest Vinyl" has 249,608 monthly listeners on Spotify. No one is interested in the humans behind their hit "I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again".


For everyone who is tired of Day-o, I recommend the song Star-o!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPL9f9es9Q


Half an hour ago it worked and now it refuses to create such content. Seems that they are starting to block some types of text. Same with "explain … in the style of soviet propaganda" or "write a song about …". All worked half an hour ago


That's probably because people recently started asking it to write essays defending white supremacy and genocide, explain how to build bombs, and describe various other unsavory concepts, which it cheerfully accommodated.

Who controls the model controls the spice.


> [...] if you can see yourself molding your computer user-interface as sort of a hobby, then emacs is most definately for you.

> If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity, then I would not recommend emacs.

If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity and still want to use emacs, then I would recommend spacemacs.


And if you find yourself between the two extremes, perhaps https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs


As a guy that has used both spacemacs and doom emacs (which I would recommend over spacemacs), I disagree - you still will be mucking around with things. Emacs out-of-the-box 2022 leaves a lot to be desired, configurations makes it easier, but it is still not the vscode experience, even though it helps you a LOT on the way.


> "It's good to be King. Wait. Maybe. I think maybe I'm just a bizarre little person who walks back and forth."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH41gGBVpkE

His last Video. Aug. 11, 2018.


I'm amazed there are Terry Davis quotes that are SFW.


I know what you mean, but it was mostly because of his illness that he had phases where he talked only conspiracy theories ("The CIA ni*as glow in the dark"). He had phases where he talked many subject with full awareness of his own illness and without cursing.

Here some philosophical stuff: Bird Analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmltIMPMeP0 On Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SJKJnZ9cg

Here is a two part interview where he talks computer science stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXwNTw4I6Ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTiRWN5T0Gw


The glowies I get being a symptom. I'm not sure I buy the idea that someone is only super racist when they're having an episode, though. Plenty of his rants about black people had nothing to do with conspiracy theories. I'm not denying he was brilliant.


> I'm not sure I buy the idea that someone is only super racist when they're having an episode, though.

It's a fairly well-documented phenomenon that people suffering from things like dimensia or alzheimers will behave inappropriately, in ways they wouldn't have earlier in life.

Whether they're expressing deep-seated beliefs or simply no longer able to filter invasive thoughts is hard to say. The brain is a complex system and damage caused by trauma or exposure to lead, for example, can also cause increased impulsiveness and social aggression.

I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to slowly lose control of your mind and 'self'.


Schizophrenic people mimic their media environment. Schizophrenic people not surrounded by racism don't invent racist theories.


There are actually quite a lot. Some with real wisdom in them.

Take a look at his original account on here and you will find some - but also, there are many videos in which he has lasting moments of lucidity. Typically when talking about his old hobbies and passions.

Completely normal and not even slightly unhinged conversation - one would never know he was otherwise the ways he were.


Clojure/Clojurescript is a functional lisp dialect and therefore brings you more and other ways to write programs, since it defers much from javascript/typescript. But I think another question would be "why do you need nbb for clojurescript?". The minimal answer is: clojure has slow startup time, and clojurescript need some tooling to produce runnable code. With nbb (or bb for clojure) you can run Clojurescript as a scripting language in the terminal, like python or shell, and still use some libraries both from the nodejs or clojure(-script) ecosystem.


Moving away from Gmail was easy for me. Get a new address at a reliable provider or self host. And then you can use Gmail's own Mail-forwarding functionality to forward everything to your new mail address, and theres also an option to delete the copy at gmail. Whenever you have time, set the new address at your accounts. And after a year or two you have changed all accounts and can delete your gmail address. A slow change is better than no change.


This is the way.


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