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What stops AI to lead users by the nose? To the benefit of owners and advertisers, with quality/quantity of manipulations individually rooted into user's psychological profile...


In Soviet Union having prisoners do soft labor was called Sharashka. This scales and creates incentives to have more prisoners doing cheap labor.


The key delineation here is the work is voluntary. I was uneasy reading the article and weighing it up, realised that the author could choose not to work whilst he serves time.

If he was being coerced into labour however, which the for-profit prison undoubtedly makes profit from, it’s simply unacceptable; indentured servitude, slavery, call it what you will, it’s bad for society in every way because it allows the ruling class to steal labour from the working class under the guise of “rehabilitation”.


What opposition? Take a stopwatch, stand by the subway with an blank sheet of paper and count seconds before you are arrested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7Zs9K46Vc


Why is server spam filtering even needed with Junk/NotJunk feature in Thunderbird?


It's what I use, but it means I have to have Thunderbird running all the time or I see all the spam on my phone. It's just kind of kludgey compared to a server-based solution.


The only thing that can balance AI-man is AI-woman


Any chance browser version will work well? Currently authentication issues and user experience is terrible IMHO, sorry.


> Are we not already insane?

As long as we aim to separate objective truth from objective false it seems that sanity is still present.


The one thing AI does not even attempt to do.

(and arguably can't, because it really is a "brain in a jar" being fed an entirely controlled view of the universe)


The one thing this form of AI does not even attempt to do.


Can love be a consequence of quantum effects?


And people worry about losing jobs)


It's like a fractal Rube Goldberg machine made of Rube Goldberg machines.

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