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    1 day ago

    “The people who advocate for AI” are literally running around claiming that AI is Jesus and it is sacrilege to stand against it.

    And by literally, I mean Peter Thiel is giving talks actually claiming this. This is not an exaggeration, this is not hyperbole.

    They are trying to recruit techno-cultists.

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      21 hours ago

      Ironically, one of the defining features of the techno-cultists in Warhammer 40k is that they changed the acronym to mean “Abominable Intelligence” and not a single machine runs on anything more advanced than a calculator.

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        5 hours ago

        Sci Fi keeps trying to teach us lessons, and instead we keep using it as an instruction manual.

        (Except, apparently, whenever it’s on the nose we interpret it as dramatic irony…)