I read everything he'd put out until the early 2000s - not sure what he's been doing since then. I quite liked him at the time as he brought a distinctly English sensibility to weird culture which was a nice contrast to the usual Californian hippy shit. I think he was a maths teacher at Eton.
Erik Davis (author of 'Techgnosis' and 'Hight Weirdness') on AI:
https://www.burningshore.com/p/ai-eeeeeee
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Interesting to see Ramsey Dukes get referenced in the article too. I thought people had forgotten about him. He wrote a book called Words Made Flesh in the late 80s(?) which was the first argument for simulation theory. For years he expressed sadness that no one engaged with the idea. Now it's all the rage and I never see his name come up.
Erik Davis (author of 'Techgnosis' and 'Hight Weirdness') on AI:
https://www.burningshore.com/p/ai-eeeeeee
#weirdstr
Here's the problem with AI in a nutshell, right here. The people developing it can't even acknowledge the existence of consciousness because they have no answer for it. They think if they can just cram a machine full of so much information that it'll magically achieve sentience, which is nonsense.
But any time legitimate and self-evident criticisms of their project are raised, their response is to diminish the human. The AI project will not birth machines that think like humans but humans that think like machines.
In all the media controversy about the RBA's action on interest rates, I've still yet to see a single mention of their QE program. Not one.
"NFTs are going to revolutionise the art world" they said.
Imagine telling someone from 20 years ago that people would be squandering their magic internet money on "virtual sneakers."
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Yeah, there are a lot of crazies on the Fedi, so that billion posts thing might be more of a sign of our society's descent into madness.
Parler was such a scammy, piece-of-shit website it made Gab look good.
I don't even care all that much about mass adoption - it's just nice to have cool places for the weirdos to hang out at.
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Parler was always a bit of a joke, but it shutting down really reinforces the fact that there's no future in the old centralized model of social media. The big tech platforms will lumber on for a bit longer but the only real alternatives lie with decentralization. There's incredible energy around Nostr at the moment and the Fediverse just racked up a billion posts for the first time ever last month. Exciting things are happening.
#noistr #choonstr
And yet people here fawn over the former CEO like he's some sort of champion of internet freedom and not a collaborator with the regime.
I have no idea what Blue Sky is, nor any intention of finding out if I can help it.
Found a great way to get the kids to go play outside. Follow me for more parenting advice.
We'll see in my case. I don't plan to invest too much time into it but I resent the time I have to spend setting it up properly in the first place.
