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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

LOL!! This has to be the darkest humor piece you've done. They will keep trying but they will never succeed. Their wish is not for independent human replicants but humanoid slaves. It's the God Complex at work. Or would that be the Military-Industrial-God complex?

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Mitch's avatar

Outstanding satire. It’s hard to pick a favorite bit, but I’ll go with this:

β€œSky obeservation: NNW arrival; Chemtrails detected;

Run (ChemDetect_True)...loading...Barium, Strontium, Graphene Oxide; Notify_Owner(false);”

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Mark of Haerefordscir M.I.'s avatar

I'd say the conclusion is: nah, they will NEVER succeed in mimicing human interactions. Their starting premise is wrong and computing is not even a close proxy for human life. Too few humans understand this, which is, admittedly, concerning.

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

I agree, though they'll never stop trying, and worse still is what has become of human interactions. Do people even care for them or value them much anymore? Would they prefer a proxy? Though, I don't think TPTB care either way and would prefer humans be the proxy for artificial life, by force if necessary. And we may very well have been the "creation" experiment all along because we're just as susceptible to manipulation and programming in ways we can't understand. Hell, we can't even figure out truths from events within our lifetimes. But this isn't the conclusion of the story - only the end of chapter 1. I was going to publish a second chapter I wrote last weekend, but it's probably not going to happen. Maybe as a flock-only post soon.

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

I've spoken to people who reply to me in code. Well, the script they've embedded in RAM from last night's 9 o'clock news programming session. It will be wiped during recharge and a new script embedded. Seriously. People are talking like fucking robots.

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My Friend Lisa's avatar

Wow. That just blew my mind man.

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Greg Rogers's avatar

That was disturbing 😳. Well done.

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Mark Alexander's avatar

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while, and also one of the most depressing.

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Paloma's avatar

This is one of the most biting and brilliant pieces I've read from you, in the years that I've had a subscription. It captures the essence of the tragedy; the men who are still barely able to sense the poverty of their narcissism and captured attention and the displacement of real women by a technocratic machine. The question we pose to you now is to pen the solutions to this trance.

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Kieran Jaegar's avatar

True Empathic resonance is required. Their repressed genuine emotions have to break through the shell, which may require some... unpleasant shocks to the system.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NCm1lI1L4LQ

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

I appreciate that, Paloma. "Joy circuits"(Activated)=(true).

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JohnS's avatar

Mike Waltz could have used some help from Donna when he was trying to concoct a story of how Goldberg's contact info got "sucked into" his phone.

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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

πŸ‘πŸΎπŸ‘πŸΎπŸ‘πŸΎπŸ‘πŸΎ Sir β€” the creativity to place the code within this article was superb. Marvelous. Thank you for orchestrating it.

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

Thanks Franklin. I thought about an internal droid CPU as a novel narrator for a while, no 3rd person, 1st person etc. Just a CPU's internal actions and event processing plus dialogue, but I've been told it's "annoying to read" and "difficult" which of course only makes me want to write it even more.

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Douglas L. Peck's avatar

So clever. The videos are awesome. The robots won't have to be perfect imitations...if they make us feel good we will fall in love with them. Have you seen the videos of the senior citizens in Japan who were given AI dolls for companionship? Your essay is on top now at Crown Valley Quarterly: https://liveyosemite.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/science-and-technology/

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

Thanks for posting it on Crown Valley Quarterly, Douglas. Glad you enjoyed it.

I've seen those senior companions. So sad. A once unique and thriving warrior and honor culture, with an emphasis on respect for the elderly reduced to a techno dystopic sideshow with the worst fertility rates in the world.

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HatariMama's avatar

Wow TGC, that was profound! Reminds to me rewatch Humans (2015). I think you ought to write one with some DEI sprinkled on πŸ˜‰

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π™‚π™Šπ™Šπ˜Ώ π˜Ύπ™„π™π™„π™•π™€π™‰'s avatar

Thanks HM. That was an underrated show. It crept me out at the time until I started seeing these "companion robots" like Aria showing up at these transhuman geek tech conferences like CES. Maybe Humans was more predictive programming. Greg Mitchell didn't want DEI, so he opted for... Era_Simulation(1955, AntiFeminist.Schema=TRUE); InsulateClient(From.OtherEras=STRICT);. His address in Pasadena is the Draper residence, where they filmed Mad Men exteriors.

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HatariMama's avatar

Aha, now I see the header prompts.. nice attn to detail. And predictive programming for sure! Might have to revisit some Black Mirror as well. πŸ‡πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ

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voza0db's avatar

Reality always funnier... The HERDS of modern moron slaves are ALWAYS in execution mode:

https://voza0db.substack.com/p/morons-just-dont-get-it-665

That code runs pretty well and almost never does it generates an ERROR! Almost PERFECT.

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Richard T's avatar

Damn, I gotta get me one of them, just for grins.

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Tom Hyland's avatar

The BjΓΆrk video is quite twisted and cold to me. If given a choice I suppose I'd rather watch two female robots stroking each other sexually than two male robots doing the same. Is this perception because that's how I'm wired? There's something wrong with the picture either way.

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My Friend Lisa's avatar

Scary as

Fuck

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CM Maccioli's avatar

Time for a refresher course. Think I'll tune into The Stepford Wives again to hone my skills.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Ugh, this hits a little too close to home!!

Two of my best friends died have in the last few years of cardiac events, so now my wife gets to hear an inordinate amount of sports talk.

I saw the Sugar Cubes in 89(?) at the I-Beam in SF-Bjork always seemed to me an Icelandic version of Yoko.

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