Amazon Prime is the worst offender.

Shades of Blue Man Group

The naive irony of all the Less Wrong people discussing letting the AI out of the box when we all know there won’t be a box at all.

We’re already breaking suicide records:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/health/suicide-deaths-record-high-2022/index.html

Surely he’d wear one of the collapsible top hats instead?

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Although it would probably lead to a big badda boom :)

It used to be illegal. Part of anti-trust was forcing IP owners to license their technology to everyone at a reasonable price. That means that reddit’s API price gouging would also have been illegal and tesla and apple would have had to license their FSD and OS to other hardware manufacturers. This ability to control other companies through abusive pricing and licensing lock-in is classic monopoly violation that the govt has stopped policing.

The technology is already here:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/31/1067400512/first-sickle-cell-patient-treated-with-crispr-gene-editing-still-thriving

A lot of the aliens encountered in Rick and Morty are quite dumb. Then again so are most of the humans. It’s a tossup.

Updated version from @iamhappytoast

Am I really the oldest one here? Sigh.

Pong

Fuck, I didn’t think I’d ever be nostalgic for the constant threat of being nuked, but here we are.

D’oh! My only defense is that I’m old and didn’t have my reading glasses on.

There’s so many codefendants that they have to pick some deep cut villains.

Where would I go??

Thank you and my apologies Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

Woohoo, Margot Robbie finally commented on one of my posts!

We might get a sequel since the original was such a sensation.