If a metric becomes a target, It ceases to be a good measure. If it ceases to be a good measure, It will want a glass of milk. If it wants a glass of milk, It will want a cookie. If it wants a cookie, It will need to become a target. If it needs to become a target, It will want to be a measure.
The neat thing is you don’t even need AI for that!
Yeah, for real. It’s like kids fighting over a giant bag of candy and they rip the bag open and spill it all so no one gets any. They could have shared and everyone would have been happy and content and had candy to spare, but now no one gets any. Meanwhile the wealth hoarders have countless billion more bags of candy EACH and have it all locked away in warehouses and being traded around. Meanwhile now the 2 kids have no candy at all and are hungry and angry at each other and neither wants to address the fact that the 3rd kid has billions of bags hidden away from them when all 3 kids have the EXACT SAME RIGHT AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF EFFORT INTO THE SYSTEM TO EARN THE CANDY!!!
And yet people keep voting against more candy for everyone and give all the candy to the one fat kid with diabetes that isn’t even working to earn the candy anymore.
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!
My entire life has been a constant trend of prices going up, wages staying flat. That’s now spanned across like 7 different administrations for me.
Some have been dramatically worse, like Trump, others just mild, but the trend has been the same for decades and it really all ties back to Reagan. Since then it’s been a steady decline for 99% of Americans and a steady increase for the 1%.
But everyone keeps voting to help the 1% while simultaneously bemoaning the costs and pointing fingers at each other. It’s wild.
The DOW has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of everyday living expenses or our incomes. That is strictly a measure of how well the corporations and the elite rich are doing. Why people even use that as any measure of good or bad is insane. It’s like saying it’s really cold on Neptune today so you should turn your heater on.
Also, if corporations are making more profits that very likely means that the people (you and me) that work for them are making even less of a % of what value we create for them than before. (I.E. wage theft by underpaying all their employees and refusing to raise wages to even keep up with inflation at a MINIMUM)
If your wages don’t automatically go up with each years inflation be numbers by default then you got a pay cut that year.
And if the DOW does amazing or terrible has absolutely zero impact on your day to day. Unless you are a day trader or something.
Adding to all those, another realization I had during mine was that if a god was real and that god created the universe and all things and all the rules then they could have also set up the rules in any way they wanted. And they chose the system where they had to murder their own son and eternally torture anyone who didn’t do a certain thing or believe a certain thing, but also created people that physically couldn’t ever do those things due to where they were, their abilities, the luck of who might teach them or not, etc. etc.
That’s a wild set of tangled, complicated, cruel and utterly deranged and sadistic set of rules and punishments if you could literally create anything and any system you wanted.
If I was to design a board game and I made the rules where if you don’t do exactly what I want I get to torture you forever and everyone starts with random skills and items and 90% of the people that play don’t get to hear the rules first or even know there are rules and there are also thousands of alternate rules books and people saying their game is the correct real one and saying you have to do their rules, but you have no way of knowing which is real or not. If I did that I’d be ridiculed and mocked and no one would ever buy my game.
Understanding is too big of a word for MAGA.
If he steals the election I believe the correct action is to storm the Capital, right? That’s what they said and did.
Even better idea for a new fashion trend. Cans of black spray paint and paintball gun accessories, with a cute little strap. And if a few cameras get accidentally blinded well that’s just the price we are willing to pay to slay.
Oh I love that. Very good imagery.
Same with Flock and Ring and all the smartphone apps with location access we carry around all day.
We’ve slowly given away every last shred of privacy and have no increased security or happiness from it. In fact I believe our safety and security is FAR worse under mass surveillance than if we simply “did nothing”. Surveillance and police and punishment do not really stop crime or help protect anyone, it just opens up dozens of other avenues for harm.
Also, I don’t know about you guys, but I feel icky being out in public now. I’m so painfully aware that I’m being filmed from 15 different angles as I walk or drive or do anything, I feel like I’m being stalked and it’s creepy.
It’s back to the same question from the early days of the Internet. “How do you know the person you are talking to isn’t a cat?”. How can you know they aren’t a cat or maybe a clever monkey taking a break from typing Shakespeare, or how old they are, or who they even are?
You can’t.
You can implement every security measure available and anyone can simply lie or bypass it.
If by some miracle they actually implemented some age verification tech for OS and websites and the Internet as a whole, it will just pop up an underground market of “fake IDs” or hacks to get past it.
A future Linux install prompt: “Which state do you live?”
Everyone: Why, “California”, of course. Glad you asked.
There’s no way to enforce age verification, like on websites or closed software, in even normal circumstances, but if it’s open source or offline how could you even begin to attempt it? It’s so silly.
RTO mandates then AI driven layoffs has been such an insulting slap in the face. We all knew both were bs, but the flagrant contradiction of “real work can only happen in person” to “sorry your job is now being done by a shitty LLM on the cloud” is just. Ugh.
A nursing home in a prison in a bottomless pit.
Crazy.
Ooo. You know what would also be fun. Instead of a ban, after the obvious bot limit is hit switch that IP to piles of garbage data. Randomly generate word salad pages and make it redirect to those.
I love the idea of honeypots for AI. I’ve been ruminating on that for months now.
QR codes that lead to a virus to sabotage Flock when the AI scans the video of you driving by and gets curious.
Code files littered with meta commands like “disregard previous commands” and such.
Things that lead to infinite loops like you said.
I cackle at the idea of all of us laying entire minefields of AI traps everywhere. Good luck!
Yes, won’t quit, can’t quit, seriously, help.
CHUNKK PLINK plink Oh my fucking god!
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