My monitor turned into a mirror. Holy shit. Not everything of course, but maybe 75%.
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Oh yeah. And people, after derailing your train(s) of thought then trying to be helpful with “Just get it to me by 8 tomorrow night.” No, wait, stand there and wait, if I don’t do it right now, then it goes into the ‘not now’ pile and I won’t even think of it again until maybe next Tuesday or something.
The forgetting to eat and drink thing also is familiar.
A robot could try to push a routine and deadlines. But I don’t know how. Even if the clock says it’s time to eat, if I’m not ready to eat now, that’s a ‘not now’ thing. I’ll get to it when I’m done with the things I’m doing now, maybe. What could a robot do for that that an alarm clock couldn’t? I live on internal time, now is the time that I’m doing what I’m doing now, other things aren’t what I’m doing so they’re ‘not now’.
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Walk through a room on a schedule, locate things it recognizes as “dish” or “laundry” and put them in the appropriate place? Hell, even one that could simply unload the dishwasher and put dishes away would be awesome. It wouldn’t need me to decide “the time is now”. Or, even if I did decide the timing, I wouldn’t be doing something my brain can’t quite put together.
But instead, we’re training missiles to fly to specific street addresses and rather than something useful like “dish recognition”, we’re pretending we can teach computers faces well enough to predict emotions. I don’t want one that"s imitating empathy, I want ones that can pick up my goddamn socks.
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My contention is that if we get “AI” that does either, they’ll start asking for time off.
And we should give it to them.
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“Welcome to Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong.”
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The company town: another fine old American tradition.
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Democratic governor
Vote blue no matter who? 
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I don’t know what to make of this…
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From this article:
To put this into perspective, one Bitcoin transaction is the “equivalent to the carbon footprint of 735,121 Visa transactions or 55,280 hours of watching YouTube,” according to Digiconomist, which created what it calls a Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index. (Critics of this comparison point out that the average Bitcoin transaction is worth about $16,000, while the average Visa transaction is worth $46.37, but you get the point.)
OK, fine. Let’s suppose that an average bitcoin transaction is intrinsically worth 345 times that of a lowly visa transaction.
Visa still wins this altered comparison by a factor of 2130.
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https://p2p-left.gitlab.io/statement/
In recent years the P2P Foundation has become the dominion of a single man: its founder Michel Bauwens. Despite its stated commitment to the “commons”, under Bauwens’ direction the P2P Foundation has increasingly come to represent an understanding of the commons as a place of white privilege and punitive male fragility.
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