RETVRN TO BBS NETWORKS
Okay, so don’t do that then. You run the fucking company.
No don’t you see, they WANT to stop but they CAN’T because, reasons.
“someone’s bound to destroy the world and I’ll be damned if I’ll let the Chinese do it first”

Narrator Voice: The Chinese did not, in fact, even try to destroy the world
Then I guess we just have to drone strike him? He sadly is leaving us no choice.

they actually can’t because if ever they defy capital they will go to one of those resort prisons for being mean to the investors
pretty sure CEOs already took over the entire internet with a botnet of toasters and coffee makers and fridges that all have to be connected to the internet and flooding bandwidth with live recordings and identifying information.
it is obscene the work and research one has to do to fulfill the basic promise of network automation in the home for things like energy usage and environmental controls to cut out the loop where every one of these devices has to phone home and share personal data with the mothership, when a completely localized network of controllable devices should be the default for resilience and security.
You mean websites will become unusable because they will contain more bots than human users and it will become impossible to find content that isn’t just churned out by an AI content mill?
What an unimaginable and impossible to fathom situation.
isnt the free internet already mostly ddosed into oblivion by these fuckers scraping it 1000 times an hour or something
Yeah, it’s such an issue that tools like iocane have popped up in the self-hosting community to try and combat the swarms (in iocane’s case, by punishing them with poisoned data).
“give me more money and ban open source, or else”
“You must regulate all AI and make myself and the other US companies the sole guardians of this technology which we intend to use as the centralisation of all things in the future, making us the most powerful people in control of everything everywhere forever.”
The angle for all of this is that they believe the centralisation of all things into AI is coming and they want to be the supreme controllers of that. They want to regulate out any open competition so that their closed models get supreme control.
i don’t generally like michael walker but the idea the “regulatory capture” regime is a preemptive exoneration for breaking something expensive is pretty compelling to me. in either case, regulated or not, they’ll get to blame governments instead of firms when their bots do something (relatively unimpressive hacking-wise) but nonetheless costing a couple bil.
and yeah, there’s further afield applications for the sort of regulatory apparatus they’re ‘asking for’ but we all know they operate on the principle of the next grain, not the heap.
Has he also said that? I don’t like him at all and avoid his shit because even the way he speaks annoys me. Always struck me as faux-intellectual and sticking his nose up at everyone when I can tell he hasn’t done the reading. He has the kind of tone that’s desperate for journalism awards more than revolution.
💯💯💯 god he’s irritating and so bad compared to his peers (even bastani). genuinely disgusting in his coverage after jason arday was killed. so it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s just regurgitating the grain from someone more clever.
but yeah, it’s a reasonable explanation in this case.


Oh my god, HERE IT COMES
POST-SCARCITYMARS COLONIZATIONAGIBOTNET
So, idk… Sounds like we just don’t do anything with AI anymore.
That was supposed to be between me and Claude.I don’t think it’s the BBS you meant but this sounds so ridiculous I want to share it:
Blum Blum Shub (B.B.S.) is a pseudorandom number generator proposed in 1986 by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum and Michael Shub that is derived from Michael O. Rabin’s one-way function.
blum blum shub
blum blum shub
buddy you’re an AI fake guy using all the juice
gonna blow up the world somedayI’ll see myself out
fuck yeah… BBS was the good old days… except when downloading files… that shit sucked
crash the fucking internet… butlerian jihad commence!
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