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Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”

Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”

In a few centuries, provided we don't nuke ourselves into squiggles in sandstone, I look forward to personhood being extended to our canine, feline, bovine, equine, avian, reptilian, marsupial slaves and neighbors. It seems absurd that homo Sapiens is the only species with interesting stories to tell.

Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, ...

Tech bro billionaires are the only geniuses on earth

Relevant excerpt from The Internet Con (2023) by Cory Doctorow about the folly of thinking tech CEO monopolies are justified due to merit. Later in the book, Doctorow explains how the recent (since the Reagan presidency) appearance of big tech monopolies was instead due to failure of the US DOJ and FTC to enforce anti-trust laws after Robert Bork successfully lobbied to have the Chicago School of economics's consumer welfare doctrine (monopolies can be good if companies pinky promise to lower prices for consumers; see Bork's 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox) adopted by the US Supreme Court.

What if you take the speculative execution strategy and have multiple interpreters translating every possible semantic branch and then throwing out the recordings of the interpretations that were incorrect? 🙃

Relevant excerpt from part 11 of Anathem (2008) by Neal Stephenson:

I've got a list of backups:

• cooked
• spaced (see The Expanse)
• inhumed (as opposed to exhumed as one might do in removing a corpse from a grave; see Terry Pratchett's Discworld's Assassins Guild lingo)
• processed (as one does to food using a food processor)
• isekai'd (for the weaboos)
• truck-kun'd
• terminated (for when the Terminator movies become popular again)
• old yeller'd
• returned to sender (until the postal system collapses)
• X trimester aborted
• Peter Pan'd (as in, thrown off a cliff and expected to fly)
• Mufasa'd (or any notable fictional character whose death was a major plot point)

Sweet! Public screenings of Dragonball Z.

Pulp Harem Isekai

The US has advanced from regulatory capture to state capture. France escaped it via political violence in the French Revolution. If US government officials fail to respond to protests and civil disobedience to shut down oligarchy, then I don't really see any way to effect change except through political violence as the French had to resort to.

Sounds like a speedrun strat for one of those pandemic games (e.g. Plague Inc.): allow infection to spread across a huge body of test subjects (chickens) with minimal consequences to your final target (humanity) to maximize mutation opportunities (DNA points) that can be spent on acquiring properties of the perfect bioweapon: airborne, long incubation period, long asymptomatic communicative period, and lethal. Then, make the pathogen's last mutation the ability to infect humans instead of the test subjects, wiping humanity out before they can spin up bioengineering labs to research and develop a cure.

“I read a book with a typo once. Libraries are a scam.”

AudioAnchor + Syncthing for Android via F-Droid has been my mobile audiobook app stack. Takes some setting up and concatenating audiobook mp3s into mkv's for convenience, but I haven't had to touch it since... 2020?

Filing this under “Closeted conservative so ashamed of their kink that, instead of discussing their feelings with a therapist, psychiatrist, or even a trusted friend, believe everyone must share their taboo thoughts and therefore be preëmptively punished to stamp out the contagion since the only honorable alternative is undergoing apoptosis like some malfunctioning cell”.

I recall a joke thought experiment me and some friends in high school had when discussing how answer keys for final exams were created. Multiple choice answer keys are easy to imagine: just lists of letters A through E. However, when we considered the essay portion of final exams, we joked that perhaps we could just be presented with five entire completed essays and be tasked with identifying, A through E, the essay that best answered the prompt. All without having to write a single word of prose.

It seems that that joke situation is upon us.

preënshittification

Throw the book at them.

Saunters meandering path downward

Enforcing anti-trust laws is low-hanging fruit. Then, Article 5 the Constitution to explicitly require civil law (law by legislation) over common law (law by precedent); it's slower, but France and Germany get by.