YackerLose

Wisdom tends to sound obvious, and obvious statements aren't novel. The digital society values the novel over the wise.

Somehow, I don't think the people with all the money, gunmen and (soon) robots will be OK with the world you envision.

>So the theory is bait, and hard to take seriously.

There are people who believe that Trump won in 2020, that vaccines cause autism, and that the Holocaust is a hoax. You cannot reason people out of an idea they didn't use reason to arrive at.

"The negationist proposition, in the age in which it is being advanced, cannot therefore be truly denied, since everything, all of us, including those who reject it, have passed over, whether we like it or not, into an age where there is no longer any objective recourse. The proposition, therefore, can be rejected only by a kind of mirror denial. And that is where its victory lies - though in fact it is not its victory, but the victory of real time over the present, over the past, over any form whatsoever of logical articulation of reality." - Jean Baudrillard

Homeless people are a better way to keep cowardly minions (I mean, valuable employees) in line than cops. The homeless are an important part of capitalist power structures. They are a visible reminder of the consequences for not meeting quarterly goals.

Post-industrialization, AI-fication, Human Replacement (whatever it ought to be called) could take that all away.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice -- can't get fooled again. - actual Dubya quote

Tomodachi Life sounds like The Sims but with rounded corners.

The author's LinkedIn style usage of emojis repulsed me and had me closing the article.

A real artificial intelligence would be capable of independent and original thought. What we have today are mere plagiarism factories. They need to be called out for what they are.

AI is developing backwards. The simplest organisms eat and find food. More complex ones can smell and sense tremors. After several steps in evolution comes vision and complex thought.

AIs that can't smell, can't feel hunger, can't desire -- I do not think it can understand the world the way organic life does.

> Scott Adams felt the contradictions of nerd-dom more acutely than most. As compensation, he was gifted with two great defense mechanisms. The first was humor (which Freud grouped among the mature, adaptive defenses), aided by its handmaiden self-awareness. The second (from Freud’s “neurotic” category) was his own particular variety of reaction formation, “I’m better than those other nerds because, while they foolishly worship rationality and the intellect, I’ve gotten past it to the real deal, marketing / manipulation / persuasion / hypnosis.”

Scott Adams was basically a classic Sophist, believing that rhetoric was the only thing worth cultivating. Nobody special; snake oil salesmen are up there with prostitutes and mercenaries in oldness of profession.

Typing in all lowercase makes you look more vulnerable, it's a pretty common rhetorical tactic in PR.

Inhale deeply... It's another breath of air a fascist won't be enjoying.

I always cut them into slices, then leave them in an airtight plastic container for an hour or two, so the juice can seep out a little.

This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. It's the sort of stuff that works in the walled garden of academia but completely ignores the state of reality, where the average person is so bogged down by information overload that the gist is all they ever desire. I think a pie chart or an infographic is infinitely more powerful than a "Stage 4 argument".